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Bound :: Bound (v. t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse..

Bound :: Bound (n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.

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

Bound :: Bound (v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain..

Ramp :: Ramp (v. i.) To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence..

Breach :: Breach (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale..

Capriole :: Capriole (v. i.) A leap or caper, as in dancing..

Vault :: Vault (n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like..

Counter-salient :: Counter-salient (a.) Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.

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

Bettong :: Bettong (n.) A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo..

Croupade :: Croupade (n.) A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.

Salt :: Salt (n.) The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

Leap :: Leap (v. i.) To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig..

Mooruk :: Mooruk (n.) A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue..

Buck :: Buck (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule..

Vault :: Vault (n.) A leap or bound.

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..

Flea-beetle :: Flea-beetle (n.) A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species..

Exilition :: Exilition (n.) A sudden springing or leaping out.

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