To spring: v.intr. (a word probably coming from the Gallic radical gali- “to boil”).
The verb “to spring up” has several meanings:
1. To go out, to rush in a sudden and powerful jet (liquid, fluid) (to squirt, to protrude, to well up).
Oil gushing from a wellbore.
Quotation from the French writer Théophile Gautier (1811-1872): "Blood spurts out in large bubbles from two red patches".
By analogy: Lightning, light that springs.
Make sparks fly.
Quote from the writer Alph...
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