Springful
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 As much as lasts or is produced in the spring.
"A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October."
- 2 As much as flows in a spring (of water).
"The dipping of a spoon into a springful of water."
- 1 Pertaining to the season spring; springlike; vernal.
"...as when the warm southwest wind comes up breathing kindness from the sea, unheralded, suspected, when the earth is in her saddest frost, and on the instant all the lands are thawed and opened to the genial influences of a sweet springful whisper— so thawed his heart, and the seed which had lain dormant in its fertile soil sprang up, grew, ripened, and brought forth an abundant harvest."
Example
More examples"...as when the warm southwest wind comes up breathing kindness from the sea, unheralded, suspected, when the earth is in her saddest frost, and on the instant all the lands are thawed and opened to the genial influences of a sweet springful whisper— so thawed his heart, and the seed which had lain dormant in its fertile soil sprang up, grew, ripened, and brought forth an abundant harvest."
Etymology
From spring + -ful.
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