Sprig

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small shoot or twig of a plant.
  • n. An ornament in this shape.
  • n. A small brad without a head.
  • n. A young, immature person.
  • v. To decorate with a design of sprigs.
  • v. To remove a sprig or sprigs from (a bush or tree).
  • v. To fasten with a small headless brad.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
  • n. A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.
  • n. A brad, or nail without a head.
  • n. A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
  • v. To decorate with sprigs
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
  • n. A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.
  • n. A brad, or nail without a head.
  • n. A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
  • v. To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A sprout; a shoot: a small branch; a spray, as of a tree or plant.
  • n. An offshoot from a human stock; a young person; a scion; a slip: often implying slight disparagement or contempt.
  • n. An ornament or a design in the form of a spray; especially, such a design stamped, woven, or embroidered on a textile fabric.
  • n. A kind of spike.
  • n. See the quotation.
  • n. A small brad or nail without a head.
  • n. A small wedge-shaped piece, usually of tinplate, used to hold the glass in a wooden sash until the putty can be applied and has time to harden.
  • n. In lace-making, one of the separate pieces of lace, usually pillow-made lace, which are fastened upon a net ground or réseau in all kinds of application-lace. They are generally in the form of flowers and leaves (whence the name).
  • n. The sprigtail or pintail duck, Dafila acuta.
  • n. Nautical, a small eye-bolt ragged at the point.
  • To decorate with sprigs, as pottery or textile fabrics.
  • To form into a sprig or sprigs.
  • To drive sprigs into.
  • n. The sparrow, Passer domesticus.
  • Spruce; smart.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers
  • n. a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
  • Verb Form
    sprigged    sprigging    sprigs   
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    sprigged    sprigging   
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    sprigged    sprigging   
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    spray    youth    lad   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clump    wreath    tuft    stalk    teaspoonful    garland    bouquet    bunch    chives    twig