Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.