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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Sprig

Sprig, n.

noun

n. [A-S. sprec. See SPRAY.]

  1. A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.
  2. A youth; a lad;—used as a term of slight disparagement. “A sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago.” W. Scott.
  3. A brad, or nail without a head. [Prov. Eng.]
  4. (Naut.) A small eye-bolt ragged at the point.

Sprig, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SPRIGGED; p. pr. & vb. n. SPRIGGING.] To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.