A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
A college servant.
A skip car.
The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
A charge of syrup in the pans.
A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
skywave propagation
The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
A beehive.
A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
To move by hopping on alternate feet.
To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear.
To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
To have insufficient ink transfer.
To leap about lightly.
Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
To jump rope.
To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
To leap lightly over.
An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
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.
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.
the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter
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 grow taller or longer.
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.