Upspring, a sort of dance (according to Elze, a translation of the German Hüpfauf: but Hüpfauf is an apocryphal dance and may as well be translated from upspring): “keeps wassail and the swaggering u. reels,” Hml. I, 4, 9. According to others, == upstart.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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