? Obs. [prob. related to next.] Brisk, active, smart, spruce.
1616. [implied in SPRUNTLY adv.].
a. 1652. Brome, Mad Couple, V. ii. La. Pray Mr. Thrivewell entertaine the Lady. Car. Another sprunt youth.
1653. H. More, Antid. Ath., I. xi. § 8. That little sprunt Piece of the Brain which they call the Conarion.
1668. G. C., in H. More, Div. Dial., Pref. I. p. xii. This little sprunt Champion, called the Conarion,… within which the Soul is entirely cooped up.
[1687. Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., II. Sprunt, wonderful active.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Sprunt, wonderful active, lively, or brisk. (Hence in Bailey.)]
1719. D’Urfey, Pills, I. 146. Nell dress’d as sprunt as a Daizy.
a. 1828. T. Bewick, The Upgetting (1850), 13. Thou can get on thee sister’s shoun … and mheyk thee sell leuk varra sprunt wouth them.
