| Leap |
n. |
A basket. |
| Leap |
n. |
A weel or wicker trap for fish. |
| Leap |
v. i. |
To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse. |
| Leap |
v. i. |
To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig. |
| Leap |
v. t. |
To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch. |
| Leap |
v. t. |
To copulate with (a female beast); to cover. |
| Leap |
v. t. |
To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch. |
| Leap |
n. |
The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound. |
| Leap |
n. |
Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast. |
| Leap |
n. |
A fault. |
| Leap |
n. |
A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals. |
| Leap year |
|
Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile. |
| Leaped |
imp. & p. p. |
of Leap |
| Leaper |
n. |
One who, or that which, leaps. |
| Leaper |
n. |
A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage. |
| Leapfrog |
n. |
A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former. |
| Leapful |
n. |
A basketful. |
| Leaping |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Leap |
| Leaping |
a. & n. |
from Leap, to jump. |
| Leapingly |
adv. |
By leaps. |
| Leapt |
|
of Leap |
