springheadn.

Brit.

/ˈsprɪŋhɛd/, U.S.

/ˈsprɪŋˌhɛd/

Forms: see spring n.¹ and head n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: spring n.¹, head n.¹

Etymology: < spring n.¹ + head n.¹ Compare earlier headspring n.

I. Senses related to spring n.¹ I.

1. Chiefly with of. The source or origin of a particular quality, action, state of affairs, etc. Cf. sense 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun]

welleOE

mothereOE

ordeOE

wellspringeOE

fathereOE

headeOE

oreOE

wellspringOE

rootc1175

morea1200

beginningc1200

head wella1325

sourcec1374

principlea1382

risinga1382

springinga1382

fountain14..

springerc1410

nativity?a1425

racinea1425

spring1435

headspring?a1439

seminaryc1440

originationc1443

spring wellc1450

sourdre1477

primordialc1487

naissance1490

wellhead?1492

offspringa1500

conduit-head1517

damc1540

springhead1547

principium1550

mint1555

principal1555

centre1557

head fountain1563

parentage1581

rise1589

spawna1591

fount1594

parent1597

taproot1601

origin1604

fountainhead1606

radix1607

springa1616

abundary1622

rist1622

primitive1628

primary1632

land-spring1642

extraction1655

upstart1669

progenerator1692

fontala1711

well-eye1826

first birth1838

ancestry1880

Quelle1893

1547 J. Harpsfield in Certain Serm. or Homilies sig. ❧ ❧.iij^v He weigheth rightly his synnes, from the original roote, and spryng hedde.

1588 G. Babington Profitable Expos. Lords Prayer iv. 304 God is the author and verie spring head of all good.

1642 Answer Plain Eng. 5 I can lead them backward to the spring-head of their calamity.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I Advts. to Rdr. sig. *3 Touching the spring-head and Derivations of human Arts and Sciences.

1708 F. Atterbury Power of Charity (new ed.) 10 Love (the Spring Head of Charity) as it is the sweetest of All Passions, so is one of the strongest too.

1771 W. Romaine Treat. Walk of Faith I. v. 221 True faith..is an emptying humbling grace. Its spring-head is in covenant love.

1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey iii. 140 Those famous ‘seven sons’ [of Edward III], the springheads of all the troubles of the next hundred years.

1896 Sunday Mag. Nov. 724 Who made London..the springhead of the world's philanthropies?

1949 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 49 160/1 A committee is the spring-head of ideas in a democracy.

2001 W. C. Chittick tr. A. al-Dīn Kāshānī in Heart Islamic Philos. ii. vi. 271 The Arabic book is the provision and springhead of praiseworthy qualities and virtues.

a. The place at which a spring emerges from the ground; the headspring or source of a stream or river; = spring n.¹ 1c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > head or source

headeOE

wellspringOE

springOE

uptaking1241

head wella1325

wellheadc1330

sourcec1386

headspringa1398

headstreama1398

risinga1398

surge1523

springhead?a1560

head fountain1563

water head1567

fountainhead1585

headwater1612

fill1622

water source1651

urn1726

vomica1838

sponge-swamp1901

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xvii. sig. Eiv If your Sestourne or place be not to be seene at the Spring head.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F4 Water will not ascend higher, than the leuell of the first spring head, from whence it descendeth.

1666 J. Locke Let. 5 May in R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 140 The Place where it works most, is about 40 or 50 Yards from the Spring-head.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xii. 262 We found the water a little brackish, but..the nearer we advanced towards the spring-head, the softer and fresher it proved.

?1789 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 127 He may with delight observe the spring head..and confluxes of each particular river.

1825 Beverley Lighting Act ii. 11 Aqueduct, feeder, pond or spring-head.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 328 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Close below a spring-head dig a trench a foot wide, so that the whole water shall pass through it gently.

1936 Jrnl. Mammol. 17 337 Near camp was a very soggy, oozy old spring-head, shaded by an enormous lowland fir.

2008 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 6 Nov. 4 c A thicket of mountain laurel and Christmas ferns that surrounded a trickle of water oozing out of a springhead.

b. figurative and in figurative contexts: a thing likened to the source of a stream or river. Cf. sense 1.

ΚΠ

1578 W. Gace tr. M. Luther Special & Chosen Serm. 220 The fountaine or springe head, that is, the hart is not sincere, wherfore neither can the riuers be pure.

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. xiii. 549 We should go to drinke at truths spring-head.

1647 A. Cowley Mistresse 31 Here's the spring head of Pleasures flood; Here's wealthy Natures Treasury, Where all the Riches ly.

1723 R. Blackmore Alfred ii. 38 At the Spring-Head to drink the purest Streams..Of Truth Divine, I all my Hours apply'd.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow Introd. p. xix Out of which,..all our other opinions flow, as from their Spring-head and perpetual Feeder.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 18 When our speculations are duly fed from the spring-heads of observation,..we may have a living stream of..knowledge.

1918 J. E. Roe Sir Francis Bacon's own Story v. 208 It was a literary stream, proceeding from anonymous writers having but the one Spring-head.

2010 Y. K. Leong Creative Minds, Charmed Lives Pref. p. xiii We hope that this..volume will make us pause and reflect on the springhead of this fast-flowing river of knowledge.

II. Senses related to spring n.¹ V.

3. A surface, projection, etc., that is part of or attached to a spring, by means of which the spring acts upon another component of a mechanism.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > part of > spring > part of

springhead1843

leaf1846

spring gaiter1917

1843 U.S. Patent 3,142 1/1 A downward projection in the box..prevents the spring head from protruding out at this end of the box.

1870 U.S. Patent 104,194 1/1 Figure 1 is a side view of my improved spring-head.

1912 Pop. Mech. July 152/2 The pressure of the palm on the spring head holds down the flesh as the tweezer arms are raised upward in withdrawing the splinter.

1963 Austral. Jrnl. Dairy Technol. 18 62/2 Springs used on opposite sides of the springhead should be matched for length and strength.

2013 US Patent 8,469,063 B2 4 The spring head or activator is depressed which in turn causes the container contents to exit the can.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	springhead
释义	springheadn. Brit. /ˈsprɪŋhɛd/, U.S. /ˈsprɪŋˌhɛd/ Forms: see spring n.¹ and head n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: spring n.¹, head n.¹ Etymology: < spring n.¹ + head n.¹ Compare earlier headspring n. I. Senses related to spring n.¹ I. 1. Chiefly with of. The source or origin of a particular quality, action, state of affairs, etc. Cf. sense 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] welleOE mothereOE ordeOE wellspringeOE fathereOE headeOE oreOE wellspringOE rootc1175 morea1200 beginningc1200 head wella1325 sourcec1374 principlea1382 risinga1382 springinga1382 fountain14.. springerc1410 nativity?a1425 racinea1425 spring1435 headspring?a1439 seminaryc1440 originationc1443 spring wellc1450 sourdre1477 primordialc1487 naissance1490 wellhead?1492 offspringa1500 conduit-head1517 damc1540 springhead1547 principium1550 mint1555 principal1555 centre1557 head fountain1563 parentage1581 rise1589 spawna1591 fount1594 parent1597 taproot1601 origin1604 fountainhead1606 radix1607 springa1616 abundary1622 rist1622 primitive1628 primary1632 land-spring1642 extraction1655 upstart1669 progenerator1692 fontala1711 well-eye1826 first birth1838 ancestry1880 Quelle1893 1547 J. Harpsfield in Certain Serm. or Homilies sig. ❧ ❧.iij^v He weigheth rightly his synnes, from the original roote, and spryng hedde. 1588 G. Babington Profitable Expos. Lords Prayer iv. 304 God is the author and verie spring head of all good. 1642 Answer Plain Eng. 5 I can lead them backward to the spring-head of their calamity. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I Advts. to Rdr. sig. 3 Touching the spring-head and Derivations of human Arts and Sciences. 1708 F. Atterbury Power of Charity* (new ed.) 10 Love (the Spring Head of Charity) as it is the sweetest of All Passions, so is one of the strongest too. 1771 W. Romaine Treat. Walk of Faith I. v. 221 True faith..is an emptying humbling grace. Its spring-head is in covenant love. 1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey iii. 140 Those famous ‘seven sons’ [of Edward III], the springheads of all the troubles of the next hundred years. 1896 Sunday Mag. Nov. 724 Who made London..the springhead of the world's philanthropies? 1949 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 49 160/1 A committee is the spring-head of ideas in a democracy. 2001 W. C. Chittick tr. A. al-Dīn Kāshānī in Heart Islamic Philos. ii. vi. 271 The Arabic book is the provision and springhead of praiseworthy qualities and virtues. 2. a. The place at which a spring emerges from the ground; the headspring or source of a stream or river; = spring n.¹ 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > head or source headeOE wellspringOE springOE uptaking1241 head wella1325 wellheadc1330 sourcec1386 headspringa1398 headstreama1398 risinga1398 surge1523 springhead?a1560 head fountain1563 water head1567 fountainhead1585 headwater1612 fill1622 water source1651 urn1726 vomica1838 sponge-swamp1901 ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xvii. sig. Eiv If your Sestourne or place be not to be seene at the Spring head. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F4 Water will not ascend higher, than the leuell of the first spring head, from whence it descendeth. View more context for this quotation 1666 J. Locke Let. 5 May in R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 140 The Place where it works most, is about 40 or 50 Yards from the Spring-head. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xii. 262 We found the water a little brackish, but..the nearer we advanced towards the spring-head, the softer and fresher it proved. ?1789 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 127 He may with delight observe the spring head..and confluxes of each particular river. 1825 Beverley Lighting Act ii. 11 Aqueduct, feeder, pond or spring-head. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 328 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Close below a spring-head dig a trench a foot wide, so that the whole water shall pass through it gently. 1936 Jrnl. Mammol. 17 337 Near camp was a very soggy, oozy old spring-head, shaded by an enormous lowland fir. 2008 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 6 Nov. 4 c A thicket of mountain laurel and Christmas ferns that surrounded a trickle of water oozing out of a springhead. b. figurative and in figurative contexts: a thing likened to the source of a stream or river. Cf. sense 1. ΚΠ 1578 W. Gace tr. M. Luther Special & Chosen Serm. 220 The fountaine or springe head, that is, the hart is not sincere, wherfore neither can the riuers be pure. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. xiii. 549 We should go to drinke at truths spring-head. 1647 A. Cowley Mistresse 31 Here's the spring head of Pleasures flood; Here's wealthy Natures Treasury, Where all the Riches ly. 1723 R. Blackmore Alfred ii. 38 At the Spring-Head to drink the purest Streams..Of Truth Divine, I all my Hours apply'd. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow Introd. p. xix Out of which,..all our other opinions flow, as from their Spring-head and perpetual Feeder. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 18 When our speculations are duly fed from the spring-heads of observation,..we may have a living stream of..knowledge. 1918 J. E. Roe Sir Francis Bacon's own Story v. 208 It was a literary stream, proceeding from anonymous writers having but the one Spring-head. 2010 Y. K. Leong Creative Minds, Charmed Lives Pref. p. xiii We hope that this..volume will make us pause and reflect on the springhead of this fast-flowing river of knowledge. II. Senses related to spring n.¹ V. 3. A surface, projection, etc., that is part of or attached to a spring, by means of which the spring acts upon another component of a mechanism. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > part of > spring > part of springhead1843 leaf1846 spring gaiter1917 1843 U.S. Patent 3,142 1/1 A downward projection in the box..prevents the spring head from protruding out at this end of the box. 1870 U.S. Patent 104,194 1/1 Figure 1 is a side view of my improved spring-head. 1912 Pop. Mech. July 152/2 The pressure of the palm on the spring head holds down the flesh as the tweezer arms are raised upward in withdrawing the splinter. 1963 Austral. Jrnl. Dairy Technol. 18 62/2 Springs used on opposite sides of the springhead should be matched for length and strength. 2013 US Patent 8,469,063 B2 4 The spring head or activator is depressed which in turn causes the container contents to exit the can. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1547
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