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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Leap

Leap (leap)
n.(?)
Leap
[AS. leáp.]
  1. A basket.
    [Obs.] Wyclif.
  2. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
    [Prov. Eng.]

Leap

Leap (leap)
v. i.(?)
Leap
[imp. *** p. p. Leaped (?
  1. 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.
    Bacon.

    Leap in with me into this angry flood. Shak.

  2. To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.

    My heart leaps up when I behold
    A rainbow in the sky.
    Wordsworth.


Leap

Leap (leap)
v. t.
Leap
  1. To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
  2. To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
  3. To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.

Leap

Leap (leap)
n.
Leap
  1. The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.

    Wickedness comes on by degrees, . . . and sudden leaps from one extreme to another are unnatural. L'Estrange.

    Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides. H. Sweet.

  2. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
  3. A fault.
  4. A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.













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