An erection of the penis.
The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
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.
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.
The penis.
A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.
A branch of a family.
A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
A person's leg.
The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
A vertical stroke of a letter.
A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
To be caused or derived; to originate.
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
To descend in a family line.
To remove the stem from.