sprig

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

sprig, n. [AS. sprec; akin to Icel. sprek a stick. Cf. Spray a branch.].

•  A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.  [1913 Webster]
•  A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.  [1913 Webster]

  "A sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago."  [1913 Webster]
•  A brad, or nail without a head.  [1913 Webster]
•  A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.  [1913 Webster]

sprig, v. t. 

 To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sprig, n. & v.
--n.
1 a small branch or shoot.
2 an ornament resembling this, esp. on fabric.
3 usu. derog. a youth or young man (a sprig of the nobility).
--v.tr. (sprigged, sprigging)
1 ornament with sprigs (a dress of sprigged muslin).
2 (usu. as sprigging n.) decorate (ceramic ware) with ornaments in applied relief.

Derivative

spriggy adj.

sprig, n. a small tapering headless tack.

Etymology

ME: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

sprig

adolescent, appendage, arm, baby, bine, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, deadwood, flagellum, fledgling, fork, frond, hand, hopeful, imp, infant, joint, junior, juvenal, juvenile, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member, minor, offshoot, organ, pinion, pubescent, ramage, ramification, runner, sapling, sarment, scion, seedling, set, shoot, slip, spear, spray, sprit, sprout, spur, stolon, stripling, sucker, switch, tail, teenager, teener, teenybopper, tendril, thallus, twig, wing, young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth

ROGET THESAURUS

sprig

Part

N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.

Arms

N arm, arms, weapon, deadly weapon, armament, armaments, armature, panoply, stand of arms, armor, armory, apparatus belli, ammunition, powder, powder and shot, cartridge, ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball, villainous saltpeter, dumdum bullet, explosive, gunpowder, guncotton, mercury fulminate, picrates, pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN, high explosive, trinitrotoluene, TNT, dynamite, melinite, cordite, lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique, pyroxyline, sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet, sword-bayonet, sword-stick, side arms, foil, blade, steel, ax, bill, pole-ax, battle-ax, gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife, ataghan, attaghan, yataghan, yatacban, assagai, assegai, good sword, trusty sword, naked sword, cold steel, club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig, hand staff, quarter staff, bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster, billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy, gun, piece, firearms, artillery, ordnance, siege train, battering train, park, battery, cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk, falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu, petard, torpedo, mitrailleur, mitrailleuse, infernal machine, smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun, pompom, ten pounder, small arms, musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut, pistol, postolet, petronel, small bore, breach-loader, muzzle-loader, revolver, repeater, Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle, needle gun, chassepot, wind gun, air gun, automatic gun, automatic pistol, escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun- lock, hackbut, shooter, shooting iron, six-shooter, shotgun, Uzzi, assault rifle, Kalashnikov, bow, crossbow, balister, catapult, sling, battering ram, gunnery, ballistics, missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball, grape, grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain shot, balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket, bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket, congreve, congreve rocket, shrapnel, mitraille, levin bolt, levin brand, thunderbolt, pike, lance, spear, spontoon, javelin, dart, jereed, jerid, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff, eelspear, oxgoad, weet-weet, wommerah, cattle prod, chemical mace, en flute, nervos belli pecuniam infinitam.