Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
Otway.
4. To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic
power.
5. To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become
warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in
seasoning.
6. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to
appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their
source, and the like; -often followed by up, forth, or out.
Till well nigh the day began to spring.
Chaucer.
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of
the tender herb to spring forth.
Job xxxviii. 27.
Do not blast my springing hopes.
Rowe.
O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
Pope.
7. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as
from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
[They found] new hope to spring Out of despair, joy, but with fear
yet linked.
Milton.