[f. SPRING sb.1 + -LET.]

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  † 1.  A young sprout or shoot. In quot. fig. of children. Obs.–1

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a. 1750.  A. Hill, Wks. (1753), II. 355. How does the budding springlets of his lovely family?

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  2.  A small spring or fountain.

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1808.  Scott, Marmion, VI. xxxvii. From out the little hill Oozes the slender springlet still.

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1844.  Blackw. Mag., LVI. 212. They shall drive nice and slowly round about the springlet.

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1879.  J. Burroughs, Locusts & Wild Honey, 121. Every little rill and springlet.

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  fig.  1830.  J. Wright, Retrospect, I. 48. The soul’s dried springlets that now bound along.

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1855.  A. W. Buchan, Song of Rest, v. 142. Its paltry springlets intervene To lure our vision from the heavenly scene.

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