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▪ I. ˈupspring, n.
[up- 2.]
†1. Rising of the sun; dawn of day. Obs.
c1000Rule of Chrodegang xviii, Fram þæs dæᵹes up⁓springe to halsungtiman. c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 274 Easterne wind..blæwð fram ðære sunnan upspringe. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. vii. vi. (MS. Ashm. 1486), Thus y⊇ vii gate..In y⊇ vpspryng is of y⊇ soone requyrede. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 50 The..parte of the worlde toward the vp⁓spryng of the son.
2. The action of springing up into existence; beginning of growth or development; origin; † generation.
c1000ælfric Gen. v. 10 æfter þes upspringe, he leofode .viii. hund ᵹeara. 13..Cursor M. 9283 (Gött.), A mayden sal brede, of his hup-spring [Cott. ox-spring]. 1554Knox Faythf. Admon. C 3 b, From the beginning of the late vp⁓spryng of the Gospel in England. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. iii. 73 Hauing..giuen amply..to vnderstand the vpspring of the Asamoglans. 1651R. Child in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 63 You ought to sow them..in March, April, or May, when frosts are..not so sharp..as to endanger their up-spring. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. 40 A state..favourable to the germination and up-spring of a nobler seed.
†3. A kind of dance. Obs.—1
For Shakes. Ham. i. iv. 9 see note to upspring a.
a1634Chapman Alphonsus iii. (1654) 33 We Germans have no changes in our dances, An Almain and an upspring, that is all.
▪ II. † ˈupspring, a. Obs.
[up- 3.]
Upstart; newly arisen or come in.
In quot. 1602 upspring has also been interpreted as sense 3 of the n., reels being taken as a verb with cognate object.
1591Horsey Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) 258 The patriarcke,..bishops and friers, and other the new upspringe nobillitie. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. iv. 9 The King doth wake to night, and takes his rouse, Keepes wassels and the swaggering vpspring reeles [= revels].
▪ III. upˈspring, v.
[up- 4. Cf. WFris. opspringe, (M)Du. opspringen, MLG. upspringen; MHG. ûfspringen (G. aufspringen); MSw. up-, opspringa (Sw. upp-), (M)Da. opspringe.]
1. intr. Of plants, etc.: To spring up, to grow.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 5 Sume feollon on stænihte..and hrædlice upsprungon. c1200Ormin 10543 Allswa summ corn & chaff Uppspringenn off an rote. c1374Chaucer Former Age 10 But corn vp-sprong vnsowe of mannes hond. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. v. viii. (MS. Ashm. 1479), So ther shuld ther of no frute vp spring. 1865Emerson Sphinx 18 Erect as a sunbeam, Upspringeth the palm. 1876Black Madcap Violet ii, Far away..the subtle fire of the earth upsprang in pale primroses.
b. fig. To arise, come into being.
c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 884 Fro Boloigne is this Erl of Pavyk come, Of which the fame vp sprang to moore and lesse. a1500Ratis Raving i. 1428 Gud dissert will nocht vp⁓spring, But hail purpos. 1562Winȝet Cert. Tractatis Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 6 Pryde and auarice, of the quhilkis..hes vp⁓sprung the electioun of vnqualifeit bischopis. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 325 Frome him the hous and clann of the Cumeinis first vpsprang. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 462 These [cattle] in flocks Pasturing at once, and in broad Herds upsprung. 1744Thomson Winter 641 Up-springs the Dance along the lighted Dome. 1821Byron Heav. & Earth iii. 869 The forests' trees (coeval with the hour When Paradise upsprung). 1842Borrow Bible in Spain xliv, Here upsprang, in Spain's better days, a little city. 1890J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ I. 7 The joy of eternity begins to upspring in our bosoms.
2. To rise, to ascend; to spring or leap upwards; to start to one's feet.
c1374Chaucer Compl. Mars 14 Er sunne gan vp sprynge. 14..in Anglia XXVII. 286 We saw his stern in þe est spedily vpspryng. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xii. 2 Airly as did the day vpspring, Thus sang ane bird. 1563Sackville Induct. Mirr. Mag. lxvi, The flames vpspring, and..crepe From walle to roofe. 1729Savage Wanderer iv. 138 The trout..Up-springs, and sunward turns its crimson stains. 1760Beattie Ode to Hope 22 Startled at the heavenly ray, With speed unwonted Indolence upsprings. 1806J. Grahame Birds of Scot. 12 When flush, the game upsprings. 1848Lytton K. Arthur vi. lv, Upsprung the host, upsprung the guests in ire—Upsprung the gentle dames, and fled affrighted. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche June vi, Upsprang she then, and kiss'd them and embraced. |