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▪ I. leaping, vbl. n.|ˈliːpɪŋ|
[f. leap v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. leap, in various senses.
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 480 Ða unstæððiᵹan hleapunge þæs mædenes. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxii. (1495) 781 The wylde gote is..moost lyght in lepynge and moste sharpe in sighte. c1440Promp. Parv. 297/1 Lepynge a-wey, fuga. 1529Supplic. to King (E.E.T.S.) 41 Church ales in the whiche with leappynge, daunsynge, and kyssyng, they maynteyne the profett of their churche. 1611Florio, Chiarantana, a kind of Caroll or song full of leapings like a Scotish gigge. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. ii. 49 Which way so euer I sought to winde me, was but a leaping out of the Frying Pan into the fire. 1664Cotton Scarron. 30 Our æneas, at two leapings, Set the first foot upon the steppings. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad liv, By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid.
b. attrib. and Comb., as leaping-bar, leaping-pole; leaping-head, -horn, the lower pommel on a side-saddle, against which the left knee presses in leaping; a hunting-horn, ‘third crutch’; † leaping house, a brothel; leaping-on-stone, a stone for convenience in mounting a horse; a horse-block; leaping time, the time of activity, youth.
1852Whately in Life (1866) II. 260 The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill (commonly called ‘Lord John's *leaping-bar’ to afford exercise in jumping over it).
1881Mrs. P. O. Donoghue Ladies on Horseb. i. iii. 35 By..pressing the left knee against the *leaping-head, you can accomplish the rise in your saddle.
1859Art Taming Horses ix. 144 In case of a horse ‘bucking’, without the *leaping-horn there is nothing to prevent a lady from being thrown up. But the leaping⁓horn holds down the left knee.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. ii. 9 What a diuell hast thou to do with the time of the day? vnlesse houres were cups of Sacke..and dialls the signes of *Leaping-houses.
1837Lockhart Scott II. ii. 63 He immediately trotted to the side of the *leaping-on-stone of which Scott from his lameness found it convenient to make use.
1859Farrar Jul. Home xvi. 205 Trying the merits of his alpenstock as a *leaping-pole. 1893Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Z. III. 192 In the Fens, when a man requires to traverse a considerable distance, he provides himself with a leaping-pole.
1661Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 200 To haue turn'd my *leaping time into a Crutch.
▪ II. leaping, ppl. a.|ˈliːpɪŋ|
[f. leap v. + -ing2.]
That leaps († runs, † dances, etc.: see the vb.).
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 482 Herodes swor..ðæt he wolde ðære hleapendan dehter forᵹyfan swa hwæt swa heo bæde. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 389 More sutil and sinful þan þis lepynge strumpet [sc. the daughter of Herodias]. a1400Morte Arth. 1460 They luyschene to-gedyres..on leppande stedes. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 12 There is a remedy to quail these wanton leaping beasts [satyrs]. 1667Duchess of Newcastle in Life Duke N. (1886) II. 101 A grey leaping horse. 1716Loyal Mourner 9 And leaping Dolphins catch a distant View. 1870Morris Earthly Par. iv. (1871) 219 A joy as of the leaping fire Over the house-roof rising higher.
b. In the names of various animals, plants, etc., as leaping cucumber = spirting or squirting cucumber (see cucumber 3); leaping-fish, the fish Salarias tridactylus, of Ceylon; so called because it comes on shore and leaps over the wet stones, etc.; (Cape) leaping hare = jumping hare: see jumping ppl. a. b; leaping spider, ‘a jumping spider, one of the Saltigradæ’ (W.).
1548–78*Leaping cucumber [see cucumber 3].
1861Tennent Nat. Hist. Ceylon 495 Index, *Leaping fish.
1849Mammalia IV. 44 The *leaping hare equals our common hare in size. 1859Wood Nat. Hist. I. 588 The Spring Haas, or Cape Gerboa, sometimes called, from its hare-like aspect, the Cape Leaping Hare.
c. leaping ague, † gout (see quots.).
1562Turner Baths 6 This bathe..is good for the leping goute, that runneth from one ioynte to another. 1792Statist. Acc. Scotl. IV. 5 A distemper called by the country-people the leaping-ague, and by physicians, St. Vitus's dance. 1806Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 375 In the mountainous part of Angus a singular disease, called there the leaping ague, is said to exist, bearing a resemblance to St. Vitus's dance.
Hence ˈleapingly adv., by leaps.
1548Elyot Dict., Assultim, leapyngly, iumpyngly. |