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Leap Year :: 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..

Curvet :: Curvet (n.) To leap and frisk; to frolic.

Leapful :: Leapful (n.) A basketful.

Leap :: Leap (n.) A basket.

Bissextile :: Bissextile (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400..

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.

Leap :: Leap (v. t.) To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch..

Fetch :: Fetch (v. t.) To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh..

Skip :: Skip (v. t.) To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope..

Ballotade :: Ballotade (v. i.) A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out..

Leap :: Leap (n.) Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast..

Cabriole :: Cabriole (n.) A curvet; a leap. See Capriole.

Capriole :: Capriole (v. i.) A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap..

Lopeman :: Lopeman (n.) Leaper; ropedancer.

Hare :: Hare (n.) A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a short tail, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, moves swiftly by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity..

Leaper :: Leaper (n.) One who, or that which, leaps..

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

Vaut :: Vaut (v. i.) To vault; to leap.

Dissiliency :: Dissiliency (n.) The act of leaping or starting asunder.

Venantes :: Venantes (n. pl.) The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey..

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