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  † 1.  Rising of the sun; dawn of day. Obs.

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c. 1000.  Rule of Chrodegang, xviii. Fram þæs dæʓes upspringe to halsungtiman.

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c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., III. 274. Easterne wind … blæwð fram ðære sunnan upspringe.

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1471.  Ripley, Comp. Alch., VII. vi. (MS. Ashm. 1486). Thus ye vii gate … In ye vpspryng is of ye soone requyrede.

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1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. 50. The … parte of the world toward the vpspryng of the son.

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  2.  The action of springing up into existence; beginning of growth or development; origin; † generation.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Gen. v. 10. Æfter þes upspringe, he leofode .viii. hund ʓeara.

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13[?].  Cursor M., 9283 (Gött.). A mayden sal brede, of his hup-spring [Cott. ox-spring].

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1554.  Knox, Faythf. Admon., C 3 b. From the beginning of the late vpspryng of the Gospel in England.

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1585.  T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., III. iii. 73. Hauing … giuen amply … to vnderstand the vpspring of the Asamoglans.

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1651.  R. Child, in Hartlib’s Legacy (1655), 63. You ought to sow them … in March, April, or May, when frosts are … not so sharp … as to endanger their up-spring.

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1825.  Coleridge, Aids Refl., 40. A state … favourable to the germination and up-spring of a nobler seed.

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  † 3.  A kind of dance. Obs.–1

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  For Shaks., Ham., I. iv. 9. see note to UPSPRING a.

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a. 1634.  Chapman, Alphonsus, III. (1654), 33. We Germans have no changes in our dances, An Almain and an upspring, that is all.

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