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superl.
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.
a.
Full of sprigs or small branches.
n.
A sprig or branch.
n.
A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
a.
See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.
imp. & p. p.
of Sprig
n.
The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.
a.
Lively; active; sprightly; vigorous.
v. t.
To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.
n.
Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
superl.
Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Sprig
a.
Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet.
n.
A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.
n.
The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail.
v. t.
To haunt, as a spright.
a.
Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
a.
Having sprigs.
n.
Sprightly; dashing.
n.
Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance.
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