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Webster 1913 Edition


Upspring

Up-spring′

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Verb.
I.
To spring up.
Tennyson.

Up′springˊ

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Noun.
1.
An upstart.
[Obs.]
“The swaggering upspring.”
Shak.
2.
A spring or leap into the air.
[R.]
Chapman.

Webster 1828 Edition


Upspring

UP'SPRING

,
Noun.
[up and spring.] An upstart. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


upspring

upspring

English

Verb

upspring (third-person singular simple present upsprings, present participle upspringing, simple past upsprang or upsprung, past participle upsprung)

  1. (intransitive) To spring up, rise up, originate, come into being.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)
    • Charles Morris, Historical Tales
      Might not its waters upspring in this new land, whose discovery was the great marvel of the age, and which men looked upon as the unknown east of Asia?

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Noun

upspring (plural upsprings)

  1. (obsolete) An upstart.
    The swaggering upspring. Shakespeare
  2. A spring or leap into the air.
  3. origin

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Derived terms

  • upspring reel

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