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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPRY, a. Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active; vigorous. [This word is in common use in New England, and is doubtless a contraction of sprig. See Sprightly.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it" [syn: agile, nimble, quick, spry]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (sprier or spryer; spriest or spryest) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1746 nimble 1 <a spry 75-year-old> • spryly adverb • spryness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (spryer, spryest) active, lively. Derivatives: spryly adv. spryness n. Etymology: 18th c., dial. & US: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spry Spry, a. [Compar. Sprier or Spryer; superl. Spriest or Spryest.] [Cf. dial. Sw. sprygg lively, skittish, and E. sprag.] Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active. [U.S. & Local Eng.] She is as spry as a cricket. --S. Judd (Margaret). If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. --Emerson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone, especially an old person, who is spry, is lively and active. The old gentleman was as spry as ever. = sprightly ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. (Colloq.) Active, lively, brisk, nimble, supple, agile, sprightly, quick, smart, prompt, alert, stirring, ready, dapper.

Moby Thesaurus

active, activist, activistic, agile, alacritous, alive, animated, bouncing, bouncy, breezy, brisk, bubbly, chipper, dispatchful, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, expeditious, featly, fleet, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, graceful, healthy, light, light-footed, live, lively, mercurial, militant, neat-fingered, neat-handed, nimble, nimble-footed, peart, peppy, perky, pert, prompt, quick, quicksilver, ready, robust, sharp, smacking, smart, snappy, sound, spanking, speedy, spirited, sprightly, sure-footed, swift, vigorous, vivacious, volant, zingy, zippy