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ˈwater-spring
A permanent flow of water issuing from the earth: = spring n.1 2. Also fig. Now chiefly in echoes from the Bible.
c1440Jacob's Well 238 To deluyn ȝoure pyt deppere in lownes tyl ȝe fyndyn a watyr-spryng of grace. 1535Coverdale Ps. cvi[i]. 33 Which turneth the floudes in to drie londe, and drieth vp the water sprynges. Ibid. 35 He maketh the wildernes a stonding water, and water sprynges of a drye grounde. 1573–80Tusser Author's Belief, in Husb. (1878) 195 That ioyned brookes to dales, to hilles fresh water springs. 1595Locrine iv. iii, Huge Hidras..which haue drunke vp the flowing water springs. 1607Bp. Hall Ps. i. 18 He shall be like the tree, Set by the water-springs. 1766M. Bruce Lochleven 147 Her pleasing task to tend The flow'rs; to lave them from the water-spring. 1780Von Troil Iceland 245 Among all the curiosities of Iceland..nothing can be compared to the hot spouting water⁓springs. 1866Lytton Lost Tales Miletus, Secret Way 12 The cool marge of rush-grown watersprings. 1890D. Davidson Mem. Long Life vi. 146 Friends, whose intercourse had been as refreshing to me as the water-spring to the traveller in the wilderness. |