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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.]
1913 Definition
Leap (leap)
n.(?)
Leap
[AS. leáp.]
  1. A basket.
    [Obs.] Wyclif.
  2. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
    [Prov. Eng.]
  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
  6. To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
  7. To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.
  8. 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.

  9. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
  10. A fault.
  11. 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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