adv. and a. [f. SPRING sb.1]
A. adv. As in, like to, the season of spring.
1567. Golding, Ovid’s Met., VII. (1593), 160. The ground did spring-like florish there.
1905. Westm. Gaz., 2 Feb., 10/1. A new impulse of literary vitality seems to have swept spring-like over the American Continent.
B. adj. Resembling that of the spring season; like that prevalent during spring; vernal.
1729. Savage, Wanderer, v. There the last blossoms spring-like pride unfold.
1848. Hoffmeister’s Trav. Ceylon, etc. v. 195. The climate here is most agreeably temperate and spring-like.
1869. Routledge’s Ev. Boy’s Ann., 391. The weather was cool and springlike.
1885. ‘Mrs. Alexander,’ At Bay, iii. Miss Lambert … looked lovely in soft, clear white Indian muslin, over spring-like green.
