Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A bounding with springs.

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

  • adjective obsolete Abounding with springs.

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  • What kind of springs? Bedsprings?

    January 14, 2020

  • I love that one definition has "abounding" and the other has "a bounding."

    January 15, 2020

  • scateo/scatere in Latin is to "bubble, gush, spring forth" so it probably refers to springs in the hydrologic sense

    January 16, 2020