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Leap [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

5. 'Tis the convenient leap I mean to try.

6. Embrace of animals.

7. Hazard, or effect of leaping.

8. A basket; a weel for fish. [Not in use.]

Leap [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

2. A man leapeth better with weights in his hands than without.

3. To spring or move suddenly; as, to leap from a horse.

4. To rush with violence.

5. And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped on them and overcame them - Acts 19:16 .

6. To spring; to bound; to skip; as, to leap for joy.

7. To fly; to start. Job 41:19 .

8. He parted frowning from me, as if ruin leaped from his eyes.

9. [Our common people retain the Saxon aspirate of this word in the phrase, to clip it, to run fast.]

Leap [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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 [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A basket.

2. A weel or wicker trap for fish.

3. The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.

4. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.

5. A fault.

6. 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 [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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

Leap [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 year Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Leap-frog [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A play of children in which they imitate the leap of frogs.

Leap-year [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Blissextile, a year containing 366 days; every fourth year, which leaps over a day more than a common year. Thus in common years, if the first day of March is on Monday, the present year, it will, the next year, fall on Tuesday, but in leap-year it will leap to Wednesday; for leap-year contains a day more than a common year, a day being added to the month of February.

Leaped [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Leaper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that leaps. A horse is called a good leaper

Leaper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, leaps.

2. A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.

Leapfrog [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A basketful.

Leaping [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Jumping; springing; bounding; skipping.

Leaping [Adjective and noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

from Leap, to jump.

Leaping [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Leapingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

By leaps.

Leapingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

By leaps.

Leapt Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Genesis 31:10

And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.

When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

Genesis 31:12

And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

Leviticus 11:21

Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;

However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.

Deuteronomy 33:22

And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.

Concerning Dan he said: “Dan is a lion’s cub, leaping out of Bashan.”

2 Samuel 6:16

And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

2 Samuel 22:30

For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.

For in You I can charge an army; with my God I can scale a wall.

1 Kings 18:26

And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.

And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound, and no one answered as they leaped around the altar they had made.

Job 37:1

At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.

“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.

Job 39:20

Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?

Job 41:19

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

Job 41:22

In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.

Psalms 18:29

For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.

Psalms 68:16

Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.

Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.

Song of Solomon 2:8

The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.

Isaiah 13:21

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

Isaiah 35:6

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

Joel 2:5

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.

Micah 1:10

Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

Zephaniah 1:9

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

Malachi 4:2

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.