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Lean-witted
(Lean"-wit`ted) a. Having but little sense or shrewdness.
Leany
(Lean"y) a. Lean. [Obs.] Spenser.
Leap
(Leap) n. [AS. leáp.]
1. A basket. [Obs.] Wyclif.
2. A weel or wicker trap for fish. [Prov. Eng.]
Leap
(Leap) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leaped rarely Leapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Leaping.] [OE. lepen, leapen,
AS. hleápan to leap, jump, run; akin to OS. ahlpan, OFries. hlapa, D. loopen, G. laufen, OHG. louffan,
hlauffan, Icel. hlaupa, Sw. löpa, Dan. löbe, Goth. ushlaupan. Cf. Elope, Lope, Lapwing, Loaf to
loiter.]
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), v. t.
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), n.
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. (Mining) A fault.
4. (Mus.) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including
several other and intermediate intervals.
Leaper
(Leap"er) n. [AS. hleápere.] One who, or that which, leaps.
Leaper
(Leap"er), n. [See 1st Leap.] A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
Leapfrog
(Leap"frog`) n. 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
(Leap"ful) n. [See 1st Leap.] A basketful. [Obs.]
