• Springful

    Origin 1

    Full definition of springful

    Adjective

    springful

    1. Pertaining to the season spring; springlike; vernal.
      • 1913, Samuel Butler , The fair haven , ...as when the warm southwest wind comes up breathing kindness from the sea, unheralded, suspected, when the earth is in her saddest frost, and on the instant all the lands are thawed and opened to the genial influences of a sweet springful whisper— so thawed his heart, and the seed which had lain dormant in its fertile soil sprang up, grew, ripened, and brought forth an abundant harvest.
      • 1941, J. A. Chadwick , Poems, by Arjava, The vivid disarray that woodlands feel As trim dead Winter steals away On the first warm springful day.
      • 1969 , Nandagopāla Senagupta , A Book of Bengali Verse from 10th to 20th Century , Amidst a springful sunny bliss Nor you, nor I, none else, Only the pigeons shining.

    Origin 2

    Noun

    springful

    (plural springfuls or springsful)
    1. As much as lasts or is produced in the spring.
      • 1944, Dylan Thomas , Poem in October, A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October.
      • 1954 , Tambimuttu, India love poems: selected and with an essay on woman in India , The palanquin was at once love's veena and a creeper shining with a springful of flowers;
      • 1970 , , Afro-Asian Writings - Issue 5 , Amidst a world whistling Not with summery wind But radiating a springful Of deathly atoms.
    2. As much as flows in a spring (of water).
      • 1977, Robert Peters , Gauguin's chair: selected poems, 1967-1974 , The dipping of a spoon into a springful of water.

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