LEAP, v.i. [L. labor, perhaps. Heb.] 1. To spring or rise from the ground with both feet, as man, or with all the feet, as other animals; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.A man leapeth better with weights in his hands than without.2. To spring or move suddenly; as, to leap from a horse.3. To rush with violence.And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped on them and overcame them - Acts 19.4. To spring; to bound; to skip; as, to leap for joy.5. To fly; to start. Job. 41.He parted frowning from me, as if ruin leaped from his eyes.[Our common people retain the Saxon aspirate of this word in the phrase, to clip it, to run fast.]LEAP, v.t. 1. To pass over by leaping; to spring or bound from one side to the other; as, to leap a wall, a gate or a gulf; to leap a stream. [But the phrase is elliptical, and over is understood.]2. To compress; as the male of certain beasts.LEAP, n. 1. A jump; a spring; a bound; act of leaping.2. Space passed by leaping.3. A sudden transition of passing.4. The space that may be passed at a bound.'Tis the convenient leap I mean to try.5. Embrace of animals.6. Hazard, or effect of leaping.7. A basket; a weel for fish. [Not in use.] |
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