To grow gradually larger by accretion.
To bring stitches closer together.
To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
To congregate, or assemble.
Especially, to harvest food.
To collect; normally separate things.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
To gain; to win.
To be filled with pus
To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
A gathering.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
To grow taller or longer.
To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
to descend or originate from.
To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
To have something crack.
to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
To extend, to curve.
To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
To cause to rise from cover.
To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
To cause to crack.
to arise, to come into existence.
To build, to form the initial curve of.
To gush, to flow out of the ground.
To rise from cover.
To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
To bring forth.
To sprout, to grow,
To crack.
To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
To come upon and flush out
To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
To swell with milk or pregnancy.
To come dramatically into view.
To spend the springtime somewhere
To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
to find or get enough food during springtime.
To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
To be born, descend, or originate from
To appear, to dawn.
To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter
The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
An erection of the penis.
A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
A grove of trees; a forest.
The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
A shoot, a young tree.
The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
A race, a lineage.
a period of political liberalization and democratization
A cause, a motive, etc.
Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
A youth.
Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
Elastic energy, power, or force.
A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.