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.

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

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

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

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

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.

To compress; as the male of certain beasts.

A jump; a spring; a bound; act of leaping.

Space passed by leaping.

A sudden transition of passing.

The space that may be passed at a bound. ‘Tis the convenient leap I mean to try.

Embrace of animals.

Hazard, or effect of leaping.

A basket; a weel for fish. J .