Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SPROUT, v.i. [D. spruiten; G. sprossen; Sax. spryttan; Sp. brotar, the same word without s. See Sprit.]

1. To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots. A grain that sprouts in ordinary temperature in ten days, may by an augmentation of heat be made to sprout in forty eight hours. The stumps of trees often sprout and produce a new forest.
2. To shoot into ramifications. Vitriol is apt to sprout with moisture. – Bacon.
3. To grow, like shoots of plants. And on the ashes sprouting plumes appear. – Tickel.