SPRING, Ver, in cosmography, denotes one of the seasons of the year; commencing in the northern parts of the world, on the day the sun enters the first degree of Aries, which is about the 10th day of March, and ending when the sun leaves Gemini: Or, more strictly and generally, the spring begins on the day when the distance of the sun's meridian altitude from the zenith, being on the increasing hand, is at a medium between the greatest and least. The end of the spring coincides with the beginning of summer. See SUMMER.