Bellows
(n. sing. & pl.) An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. |
Bellows fish
() A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows |
Bishop sleeve
() A wide sleeve, once worn by women. |
Sleeve
(n.) See Sleave, untwisted thread. |
Sleeve
(n.) The part of a garment which covers the arm |
Sleeve
(n.) A narrow channel of water. |
Sleeve
(n.) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts. |
Sleeve
(n.) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel. |
Sleeve
(n.) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes. |
Sleeve
(v. t.) To furnish with sleeves |
Spring
(v. i.) To leap |
Spring
(v. i.) To issue with speed and violence |
Spring
(v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. |
Spring
(v. i.) To fly back |
Spring
(v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface |
Spring
(v. i.) To shoot up, out, or forth |
Spring
(v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor |
Spring
(v. i.) To grow |
Spring
(v. t.) To cause to spring up |
Spring
(v. t.) To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly. |
Spring
(v. t.) To cause to explode |
Spring
(v. t.) To crack or split |
Spring
(v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring |
Spring
(v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong |
Spring
(v. t.) To pass over by leaping |
Spring
(v. i.) A leap |
Spring
(v. i.) A flying back |
Spring
(v. i.) Elastic power or force. |
Spring
(v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force. |
Spring
(v. i.) Any source of supply |
Spring
(v. i.) Any active power |
Spring
(v. i.) That which springs, or is originated, from a source |
Spring
(v. i.) A race |
Spring
(v. i.) A youth |
Spring
(v. i.) A shoot |
Spring
(v. i.) That which causes one to spring |
Spring
(v. i.) The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow |
Spring
(v. i.) The time of growth and progress |
Spring
(v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. |
Spring
(v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position |
Suspension
(n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended |
Suspension
(n.) Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation |
Suspension
(n.) Of labor, study, pain, etc. |
Suspension
(n.) Of decision, determination, judgment, etc. |
Suspension
(n.) Of the payment of what is due |
Suspension
(n.) Of punishment, or sentence of punishment. |
Suspension
(n.) Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc. |
Suspension
(n.) Of the action or execution of law, etc. |
Suspension
(n.) A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay |
Suspension
(n.) The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining |
leap
leaping
spring
saltation
bound
bounce | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
| suspension temporary removal | a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc) |
suspension
dangling
hanging | the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely), there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait |
| spring break | a week or more of recess during the spring term at school |
snipefish
bellows fish | small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth |
leopard frog
spring frog Rana pipiens | common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots |
green frog
spring frog Rana clamitans | similar to bullfrog, found in or near marshes and ponds, of United States and Canada |
spring peeper
Hyla crucifer | a small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring |
| spring chicken | a young chicken having tender meat |
| spring cankerworm | variably colored looper, larva of Paleacrita vernata |
| air cushion air spring | a mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion |
| bellows | a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air, used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument |
| box spring | a coiled bedspring in a frame that is covered with cloth |
coil spring
volute spring | a spring in the shape of a coil |
| dolman sleeve | a sleeve with a large armhole and tight cuff |
| leaf spring | long narrow spring consisting of several layers of metal springs bracketed together |
| long sleeve | a sleeve extending from shoulder to wrist |
| raglan sleeve | a sleeve that extends in one piece to the neckline of a coat or sweater with seams from the armhole to the neck |
record sleeve
record cover | a sleeve for storing a phonograph record |
set gun
spring gun | a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off |
| short sleeve | a sleeve extending from the shoulder to the elbow |
sleeve
arm | the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm |
| sleeve | small case into which an object fits |
| spiral spring | a spring that is wound like a spiral |
| spring | a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed, the spring was broken |
spring balance
spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
| spring mattress | a mattress containing springs in a rigid frame |
suspension
suspension system | a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle |
| suspension bridge | a bridge that has a roadway supported by cables that are anchored at both ends |
give
spring
springiness | the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length |
| suspension point | (usually plural) one of a series of points indicating that something has been omitted or that the sentence is incomplete |
windsock
wind sock
sock air sock
air-sleeve
wind sleeve
wind cone
drogue | a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast, used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind |
suspension
respite
reprieve
hiatus
abatement | an interruption in the intensity or amount of something |
green onion
spring onion
scallion | a young onion before the bulb has enlarged, eaten in salads |
egg roll
spring roll | minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried |
| spring water | water from a spring |
| spring | a point at which water issues forth |
hot spring
thermal spring | a natural spring of water at a temperature ofF or above |
spring
fountain
outflow
outpouring
natural spring | a natural flow of ground water |
young person
youth
younker
spring chicken | a young person (especially a young man or boy) |
Carolina spring beauty
Claytonia caroliniana | similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers, eastern North America |
spring beauty
Clatonia lanceolata | small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm |
Virginia spring beauty
Claytonia virginica | small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers, eastern North America |
spring cress
Cardamine bulbosa | small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America |
winter heath
spring heath
Erica carnea | dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers |
spring squill
Scilla verna
sea onion | European scilla with small blue or purple flowers |
spring vetchling
spring vetch Lathyrus vernus | bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers |
| spring vetch Vicia sativa | herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building |
cleavers
clivers
goose grass catchweed
spring cleavers
Galium aparine | annual having the stem beset with curved prickles, North America and Europe and Asia |
footsteps-of-spring
Sanicula arctopoides | sanicle of northwestern United States and British Columbia having yellow flowers |