SPRING, SPRINGING (bound)
ADJECTIVES
► BENDIT ready to spring, crouching → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► SALTITANT leaping or springing → 1654 obs.
NOUNS
► BEND a spring, a leap, a bound → 1513 Sc. obs.
► LENCH a leap, a spring → 1606 Sc. obs.
► SALIENCE the quality of leaping or springing up → 1836
► SPANG a bound, leap, or spring → 1817 Eng. dial.
► SPRUNT a quick or convulsive movement; a start; a spring or bound → 1660 obs.
► STEND a leap, spring, or bound → a1500 Sc.
VERBS
► BEND to spring, to leap, to bound → c1530 Sc. obs.
► BOUT to bolt, to spring, to leap; to rise quickly from beneath a surface → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► LAKE to exert oneself, to move quickly, to leap, to spring; hence, to fight → a1000 obs.
► LANCE to bound, to spring, to move quickly, to rush → c1330 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► LOPE to leap, to jump, to spring → 1483 obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial.
► SCOWP to run hither and thither, to rush, to bound, to dart, to scurry, to spring → 1721 Sc.
► SKIT to shy or be skittish; to move lightly and rapidly; to caper, to leap, to spring → 1611
► SPRENT to move suddenly, quickly, or energetically; to spring, to bound; to dart, to dash → 1400 obs.
► STEND to bound, to leap, to spring up → 1567 Sc.
► YARK ► YERK to spring or rise suddenly; esp. of animals → 1611 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
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