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  • 61spring tide — Tide Tide, n. [AS. t[=i]d time; akin to OS. & OFries. t[=i]d, D. tijd, G. zeit, OHG. z[=i]t, Icel. t[=i]?, Sw. & Dan. tid, and probably to Skr. aditi unlimited, endless, where a is a negative prefix. [root]58. Cf. {Tidings}, {Tidy}, {Till}, prep …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 62Spring Awakening (play) — Infobox Play name = Spring Awakening caption = A scene from the 1917 English premiere in New York City. writer = Frank Wedekind genre = Tragedy setting = Provincial town in Germany, 1891 1892 premiere = 1906 place = Deutsches Theater, Berlin orig …

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  • 63Spring in Park Lane — Infobox Film name = Spring in Park Lane image size = 161 caption = director = Herbert Wilcox producer = Herbert Wilcox writer = Alice Duer Miller (Novel) Nicholas Phipps (screenplay) narrator = starring = Anna Neagle Michael Wilding Tom Walls… …

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  • 64Spring Temple Buddha — The Spring Temple Buddha is a statue depicting Vairocana Buddha in Lushan, Henan, China. At 128 m (420 ft), which included a 20 m (66 ft) lotus throne, it is the largest statue in the world. [zh icon [http://zhai.fosss.org/goto zy.asp?id=5421… …

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  • 65spring —    1. Point where underground water emerges on to the surface, not exclusive to limestone, but generally larger in cavernous rocks. The image of a trickle of water springing from a hillside hardly matches that of a vast cave pouring forth a river …

    Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • 66Spring of Arda —    The time when the Valar still dwelt on Almaren.    The time, many millennia ago, when the Valar had ordered the World as they wished and rested upon Almaren, and Melkor lurked beyond the Walls of Night. The Spring was marred when Melkor… …

    J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary

  • 67spring — noun see it is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies verb see hope springs eternal …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 68Spring — 1. catch out; come upon unexpectedly: We were sprung last Tuesday ; 2. cause or enable (someone) to escape from prison …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 69spring — I Australian Slang 1. catch out; come upon unexpectedly: We were sprung last Tuesday ; 2. cause or enable (someone) to escape from prison II Rasta Dictionary to sprout, as of yams or cocos, making them inedible …

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  • 70spring gun — A weapon installed on premises to fire or discharge automatically upon the intrusion of a trespasser, so as to kill or incapacitate him. United Zinc & Chemical Co. v Britt, 258 US 268, 66 L Ed 615, 42 S Ct 299, 36 ALR 28 …

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