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• Spark

  ·noun A brisk, showy, gay man. II. Spark ·noun A lover; a gallant; a beau. III. Spark ·vi To <<Spa...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• spark

  A spruce, trim, or smart fellow. A man that is always thirsty, is said to have a spark in his throat...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Jump

  ·adv Exactly; pat. II. Jump ·vt To bore with a jumper. III. Jump ·vt To join by a butt weld. IV. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• jump

  The jump, or dining-room jump; a species of robbery effected by ascending a ladder placed by a sham ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jump

  a coat. Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Spark coil

  ·add. ·- A self-induction coil used to increase the spark in an electric gas-lighting apparatus. II...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Spark gap

  ·add. ·- The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an el...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Spark plug

  ·add. ·- In internal-combustion engines with electric ignition, a plug, screwed into the cylinder he...

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• to spark it

  To court. Used chiefly in New England. You were a nation sight wiser than brother Jonathan, sister ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• jump, to

  v. to take possession of a claim(mining) on land, on the ground that a former possessor hasabandone...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to jump at

  To embrace with eagerness; as, 'I made him an offer, and he jumped at it.' ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• jump-jointed

  When the plates of an iron vessel are flush, as in those that are carvel-built. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• stump-jump plough

  n. a farm implement,invented in Australia, for ploughing the wheat-lands, which areoften left with ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris