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Start :: Start (n.) The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion..

Leapfrog :: Leapfrog (n.) A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former..

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

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.) A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.

Crane :: Crane (v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap..

February :: February (n.) The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days..

Vault :: Vault (n.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.

Spud :: Spry (superl.) Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.

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

Insult :: Insult (v. i.) To leap or jump.

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

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

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..

Ramp :: Ramp (v. i.) To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp..

Frisk :: Frisk (a.) A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.

Vault :: Vault (n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.

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

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

Leep :: Leep (strong imp.) Leaped.

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