SPRING (season)
ADJECTIVES
► PRIMAVERAL taking place in early spring → 1823
► SPRINGY growing in spring → 1593 obs.
► VERNAL 1. coming, appearing, or happening in spring → 1534
2. suggestive of spring; having the mildness or freshness of spring; early, youthful → 1790
► VERNANT 1. flourishing or growing in, or as in, spring → c1440 obs.
2. pert. to the spring; vernal → 1654 obs.
ADVERBS
► VERNALLY in or like spring → 1727
NOUNS
► BUZZARD STORM a period of very cold weather in spring → 1954 Amer. dial.
► DOGWOOD WINTER a period of cold weather in the spring→ 1904 Amer. dial.
► FLY TIME spring → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GRASS spring → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GRASS-SPRING the time of year in which grass and other plants begin to grow; springtime → 1840 poetic usage, obs.
► LENT the season of spring → c1275 obs.
► LENTEN spring → c1000 obs.
► LINEN BRITCHES WINTER a period of cold weather in the spring → 1950 Amer. dial.
► PET WEATHER particular good weather early in the spring → 1982 Amer. dial.
► PRIME spring, as the first season of the year when this began in March) → 1541 obs.
► PRIME TEMPS springtime, spring; the beginning, the earliest time → 1425 obs.
► PRIMETIDE springtime, spring; fig. the ‘springtime’ of life, or of any movement → 1549 obs.
► PRIME TIME springtime, spring → 1503 obs.
► PRIMROSE-TIME springtime → 1606
► RENDING-TIME the early spring → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SICK-BIRD WINTER a late spring storm → 1991 Amer. dial.
► SNOWBALL RAIN a period of inclement weather in the spring → 1894 Amer. dial.
► SPRING FRET a sense of restlessness or desire to wander, felt by humans or animals in the spring → 1897
► SPRINGING TIME springtime → 1387
► SPRING OF THE LEAF the time when trees begin to burst into leaf; springtime → 1538
► SPRING OF THE YEAR, THE the first season of the year; springtime → 1481
► SPRING SHOOT he time of rapid and plentiful growth in the spring → 1676 obs.
► SPRINGTIDE the season of spring → 1530
► VER ► VERE the season of spring; springtime → 1382 obs.
► VERE-TIME spring-time → 1382 obs.
► VERNAL the vernal season; the spring → 1654 obs.
► VERNAL SEASON the season of spring → 1644
► VOAR ► VORE the spring of the year → 1721 Sc.
► VOAR-SEASON the spring-time → 1890 Sc.
► VOAR-TIME the spring-time → 1806 Sc.
► WARE the season of spring → a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► WHEELING TIME spring → 1914 Amer. dial.
PHRASES
► WHEN BIRDS HAVE TWO TAILS when it is spring and swallows return → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► VERNALIZE to render spring-like → 1830
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