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Subsultus :: Subsultory (a.) Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts.

Leap :: Leap (n.) The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound..

Hurdle :: Hurdle (n.) An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race..

Romp :: Romp (v. i.) To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

Clean :: Clean (superl.) Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence..

Curvet :: Curvet (n.) A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once..

Salient :: Salient (v. i.) Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.

Saltigrade :: Saltigrade (n.) One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey..

Saltant :: Saltant (v.) Leaping; jumping; dancing.

Leap :: Leap (v. t.) To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch..

Caperer :: Caperer (n.) One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances..

Somerset :: Somerset (n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.

Transiliency :: Transiliency (n.) A leap across or from one thing to another.

Leap :: Leap (v. t.) To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.

Colugo :: Colugo (n.) A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur..

Phenakistoscope :: Phenakistoscope (n.) A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a screen..

Podura :: Podura (n.) Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail.

Insult :: Insult (v. t.) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

Sally :: Sally (v. i.) To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.

Jump :: Jump (v. i.) To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.

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