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The act of leaping on anything. Sir T. Browne.

LEAPFUL
A basketful.
ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
LEAPER
One who, or that which, leaps.
LEAP YEAR
. 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. Note: Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year,
LEAPING
from Leap, to jump. Leaping house, a brothel. Shak. -- Leaping pole, a pole used in some games of leaping. -- Leaping spider , a jumping spider; one of the Saltigradæ.
LEAP
1. A basket. Wyclif. 2. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
LEAPINGLY
By leaps.
LEAPFROG
A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.
ANYTHING
1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
OUTLEAP
To surpass in leaping.
LANDLEAPER
See LANDLOUPER
OVERLEAP
To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore. "Let me o'erleap that custom." Shak.