intransitive. To move lightly and nimbly on the feet; to skip, caper; to dance; †of a horse: to caper, prance (obsolete rare). archaic.

intransitive. Of an animal, esp. a horse: to rise by springing from the hind legs; to move by a succession of such springs. †Also transitive, with…

intransitive. Of horses: To prance, to toss the head.

To rise with both (or all four) feet suddenly from the ground or other standing-place, alighting in some other position; to jump, spring. Often…

intransitive. Of a horse: to make an energetic or exaggerated leap; to bound, curvet.

intransitive. Of a horse: to execute a curvet, leap in a curvet; (in later use also more generally) to caper, prance, leap. Said also of the person…

intransitive. To assume a pompous or ostentatious gait; to strut, swagger, sashay. Also occasionally of an animal, as a prancing horse, a…

intransitive (?) To prance. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To leap, skip. In later use only of horses.

intransitive. To walk on stilts; figurative (of a horse) ? to lift the legs high in walking or running, to prance.

intransitive. Of a horseman or horse: To execute a caracol or caracols. Often used loosely for ‘to caper about’. Also transferred of other animals.

intransitive. To prance (in various senses); to caper, dance; to parade. Formerly also †transitive with it (obsolete).

intransitive. To curvet, prance, caper about, frisk, bound: said of a horse, or rider, and hence transferred.

intransitive. To walk or move with an up-and-down or jerky movement; to move in an exaggerated or affected manner. Also (of a horse, etc.) to move…