sprig

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A small shoot or twig of a plant.
• noun An ornament in this shape.
• noun A small brad without a head.
• noun Archaic A young, immature person.
• transitive verb To decorate with a design of sprigs.
• transitive verb To remove a sprig or sprigs from (a bush or tree).
• transitive verb To fasten with a small headless brad.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To decorate with sprigs, as pottery or textile fabrics.
• To form into a sprig or sprigs.
• To drive sprigs into.
• noun The sparrow, Passer domesticus.
• Spruce; smart.
• noun A sprout; a shoot: a small branch; a spray, as of a tree or plant.
• noun An offshoot from a human stock; a young person; a scion; a slip: often implying slight disparagement or contempt.
• noun An ornament or a design in the form of a spray; especially, such a design stamped, woven, or embroidered on a textile fabric.
• noun A kind of spike.
• noun See the quotation.
• noun A small brad or nail without a head.
• noun A small wedge-shaped piece, usually of tinplate, used to hold the glass in a wooden sash until the putty can be applied and has time to harden.
• noun In lace-making, one of the separate pieces of lace, usually pillow-made lace, which are fastened upon a net ground or réseau in all kinds of application-lace. They are generally in the form of flowers and leaves (whence the name).
• noun The sprigtail or pintail duck, Dafila acuta.
• noun Nautical, a small eye-bolt ragged at the point.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
• noun A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.
• noun A brad, or nail without a head.
• noun (Naut.) A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
• transitive verb To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
• noun A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.
• noun A brad, or nail without a head.
• noun A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
• verb To decorate with sprigs

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers
• noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year