, sprig, branch.

spray, n. Associated Words: atomize, atomization, atomizer,
spoondrift, nebulize, nebulizer, nebulization.

spread, v. extend, stretch, expand, dilate; unfurl, unroll, open;
disseminate, bruit, circulate, propagate, promulgate, diffuse, emit;
suffuse; cover, overspread, mantle; expatiate.

spread, n. extent, compass, reach; (Colloq.) feast; cover.

spreadeagle, a. bombastic, boastful, magniloquent, grandiloquent.

spreading, n. extension, expansion, dilation; dissemination,
propagation, promulgation, diffusion, circulation; suffusion,
circumfusion; radiation.

spree, n. (Colloq.) carousal, debauch, revelry, orgies,
bacchanals, wassail, saturnalia.

sprig, n. shoot, slip, twig, spray.

sprightliness, n. animation, liveliness, vivacity, activity,
briskness, lilt.

sprightly, a. lively, brisk, animated, debonair, vivacious, sportive,
gay.

spring, v. dart, shoot; bound, leap, jump, hop, vault; emerge, rise,
arise; rebound, recoil, fly back; bend, warp; issue, emanate, originate,
flow, arise.

spring, n. leap, bound, saltation, vault, jump; resilience,
elasticity, springiness; fount, fountain, source; cause, origin, motive,
source; springtime, vernal season.

spring, n. Associated Word: pegology.

springboard, n. batule, batule board.

springy, a. elastic, resilient, rebounding, recoiling; spongy,
yielding, queachy.

sprinkle, v. scatter, strew; besprinkle, bedew, asperse.

sprinkling, n. aspersion, besprinkling.

sprinter, n. runner.

sprite, n. elf, goblin, pixy, fay, specter, phantom, ghost.

sprout, v. germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, grow, vegetate; branch,
ramify; tiller.

sprout, n. shoot, tiller, chit, sucker, scion; aerospire, plumule;
rattoon.

sprouting, n. germination.

spruce, a. natty, jaunty, neat, finical, trim.

spry, a. agile, nimble, quick, brisk, sprightly, alert.

spunk, n. touchwood, punk, amadou.

spunk, n. (Colloq.) spirit, mettle, pluck.

spunky, a. (Colloq.) mettlesome, plucky, spirited.

spur, n. rowel, goad, prick; snag, projection; incitement, stimulus,
goad, incentive, instigation, impetus, provocation; spine (on a cock's
leg).

spur, v. goad, incite, urge, stimulate, instigate, impel.

spurious, a. counterfeit, sham, false, mock, adulterine,
unauthentic.

spurn, v. reject, scorn, contemn, despise, scout.

spurn, n. rejection, disdain, scorning.

spurt, n. gushing, spouting, jet, ejection.-- v. gush, spout,
jet.

spy, n. scout; em