单词 | leaping |
释义 | leapingn. The action of leap v., in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] leapingc1000 loupingc1440 loping1483 springing?1530 vaulting1531 saltion1541 jumping1565 exultation1599 bounding1607 exilition1646 saltation1646 salture1656 saliency1664 salitiona1682 upleaping1867 jumpery1882 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [noun] > running runningOE runec1330 leapingc1440 pelt1879 c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 480 Ða unstæððigan hleapunge þæs mædenes. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxii. 1161 Þis beste caprea ‘þe wilde goote’ is..most light in lepynge, most scharp in sighte. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 297/1 Lepynge a-wey, fuga. 1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. C Church ales in the whiche with leappynge, daunsynge and kyssyng they maynteyne the profett of their churche. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Chiarantana, a kind of Caroll or song full of leapings like a Scotish gigge. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 49 Which way so euer I sought to winde me, was but a leaping out of the Frying Pan into the fire. 1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 30 Our Æneas, at two leapings, Set the first foot upon the steppings. 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad liv. 83 By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid. Compounds C1. General attributive. leaping-bar n. ΚΠ 1852 R. Whately in E. J. Whately Life & Corr. R. Whately (1866) II. 260 The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill (commonly called ‘Lord John's leaping-bar’ to afford exercise in jumping over it). leaping-pole n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > pole used for leaping dykes lope-staff1603 kent1606 fen-pole1844 leaping-pole1859 1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home xvi. 205 Trying the merits of his alpenstock as a leaping-pole. 1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita III. xl. 192 In the Fens, when a man requires to traverse a considerable distance, he provides himself with a leaping-pole. C2. leaping-head n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle saddle-boweOE arsonc1300 saddle skirt1361 saddle-tree1364 skirtc1400 saddle panel1465 stock-tree1470 stock1497 pommela1500 tree1535 pillion cloth1540 port1548 saddle stock1548 pilch1552 bolster1591 cantle1591 shank-pilliona1599 pillowc1600 pad1604 crutch1607 sivet1607 saddle crutcha1614 saddle eaves1663 saddle tore1681 burr1688 head1688 narve1688 saddle seat1688 sidebar1688 torea1694 quarter1735 bands of a saddle1753 witherband1764 withers1764 peak1775 pillion-stick1784 boot-housing1792 saddle flap1798 saddle lap1803 fork1833 flap1849 horn1849 skirting1852 hunting-horn1854 head-plate1855 saddle horn1856 cantle bar1859 leaping-horn1859 straining1871 stirrup-bar1875 straining-leather1875 spring tree1877 leaping-head1881 officer-tree1894 monkey1911 monkey-strap1915 thigh roll1963 straining-web- 1881 Mrs. P. O. Donoghue Ladies on Horseb. i. iii. 35 By..pressing the left knee against the leaping-head, you can accomplish the rise in your saddle. leaping-horn n. the lower pommel on a side-saddle, against which the left knee presses in leaping; a hunting-horn, ‘third crutch’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle saddle-boweOE arsonc1300 saddle skirt1361 saddle-tree1364 skirtc1400 saddle panel1465 stock-tree1470 stock1497 pommela1500 tree1535 pillion cloth1540 port1548 saddle stock1548 pilch1552 bolster1591 cantle1591 shank-pilliona1599 pillowc1600 pad1604 crutch1607 sivet1607 saddle crutcha1614 saddle eaves1663 saddle tore1681 burr1688 head1688 narve1688 saddle seat1688 sidebar1688 torea1694 quarter1735 bands of a saddle1753 witherband1764 withers1764 peak1775 pillion-stick1784 boot-housing1792 saddle flap1798 saddle lap1803 fork1833 flap1849 horn1849 skirting1852 hunting-horn1854 head-plate1855 saddle horn1856 cantle bar1859 leaping-horn1859 straining1871 stirrup-bar1875 straining-leather1875 spring tree1877 leaping-head1881 officer-tree1894 monkey1911 monkey-strap1915 thigh roll1963 straining-web- 1859 J. S. Rarey Art of taming Horses (new ed.) ix. 144 In case of a horse ‘bucking’, without the leaping-horn there is nothing to prevent a lady from being thrown up. But the leaping~horn holds down the left knee. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel houseOE bordelc1300 whorehousec1330 stew1362 bordel housec1384 stewc1384 stivec1386 stew-house1436 bordelryc1450 brothel house1486 shop?1515 bains1541 common house1545 bawdy-house1552 hothouse1556 bordello1581 brothela1591 trugging house1591 trugging place1591 nunnery1593 vaulting-house1596 leaping house1598 Pickt-hatch1598 garden house1606 vaulting-school1606 flesh-shambles1608 whore-sty1621 bagnioa1640 public house1640 harlot-house1641 warrena1649 academy1650 call house1680 coney burrow1691 case1699 nanny-house1699 house of ill reputea1726 smuggling-ken1725 kip1766 Corinth1785 disorderly house1809 flash-house1816 dress house1823 nanny-shop1825 house of tolerance1842 whore shop1843 drum1846 introducing house1846 khazi1846 fast house1848 harlotry1849 maison de tolérance1852 knocking-shop1860 lupanar1864 assignation house1870 parlour house1871 hook shop1889 sporting house1894 meat house1896 massage parlour1906 case house1912 massage establishment1921 moll-shop1923 camp1925 notch house1926 creep joint1928 slaughterhouse1928 maison de convenance1930 cat-house1931 Bovril1936 maison close1939 joy-house1940 rib joint1940 gaff1947 maison de passe1960 rap parlour1973 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 9 What a diuell hast thou to do with the time of the daie? vnles houres were cups of sacke..and Dialles the signes of leaping houses . View more context for this quotation leaping-on-stone n. a stone for convenience in mounting a horse; a horse-block. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > mounting a horse > mounting-block mounting place1490 riding block1570 block1614 mounting block1659 horsing stone1661 horsing-block1662 upping-stocka1697 joss-block1706 horse-block1713 mounting stone1794 upping-block1796 upping-stone1809 horse-steps1828 leaping-on-stone1837 stepping-stone1837 stirrup-stone1838 pillion stone1907 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott II. ii. 63 He immediately trotted to the side of the leaping-on-stone of which Scott from his lameness found it convenient to make use. leaping time n. the time of activity, youth. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun] youthc897 youngheada1300 youngthc1330 juvent1377 juventy1377 first youtha1387 youthheada1400 joyfnesc1400 junessec1430 young daysa1464 juventudec1470 younga1475 youngness?1505 flower?1507 juventute1541 prime tide1549 spring1553 April1583 springtime1583 nonage1584 prime1584 flowering youth1586 primrose1590 greenc1595 dancing-days1599 primrose-time1606 leaping timea1616 salad daysa1616 minority1632 juvenency1656 coltagec1720 youdith1723 veal-bones1785 whelphood1847 colthood1865 a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 201 To haue turn'd my leaping time into a Crutch. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2020). leapingadj. That leaps (†runs, †dances, etc.: see the verb). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] leaping?a1400 jumping1567 saltant1601 vaultinga1616 salient1646 saltitant1654 springing1658 boundinga1667 saltating1852 upleaping1867 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [adjective] > leaping or prancing gambolling1538 curvetting1598 caprioling1628 leaping1667 jauncing1792 c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 482 Herodes swor..ðæt he wolde ðære hleapendan dehter forgyfan swa hwæt swa heo bæde. c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 389 More sutil and sinful þan þis lepynge strumpet [sc. the daughter of Herodias]. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1460 They luyschene to-gedyres..on leppande stedes. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 14 There is a remedy to quaile these wanton-leaping beasts [sc. satyrs]. 1667 Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of Newcastle ii. 66 A gray leaping Horse. 1716 Loyal Mourner for Best of Princes 9 And leaping Dolphins catch a distant View. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 219 A joy as of the leaping fire Over the house-roof rising higher. Compounds C1. In the names of various animals, plants, etc. leaping cucumber n. = spirting cucumber n. at cucumber n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > spirting cucumber leaping cucumber1548 touch-me-not1597 squirt1753 spurting cucumber1786 squirting cucumber1802 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.v v Cucumis sylvestris..maye be called in englyshe wylde cucummer or leapyng cucumer. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xl. 372 Of the wilde spirting Cucumbre..This Cucumber is called..in Englishe Wilde Cucumber, or leaping Cucumber. leaping-fish n. the fish Salarias tridactylus, of Ceylon; so called because it comes on shore and leaps over the wet stones, etc. ΚΠ 1861 J. E. Tennent Sketches Nat. Hist. Ceylon Index 495/2 Leaping fish. leaping hare n. (also Cape leaping hare) = jumping-hare n. at jumping adj. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Pedetidae (jumping-hare) mountain hare1785 springhare1822 springhaas1831 jumping-hare1839 leaping hare1849 1849 Mammalia 4 44 The leaping hare equals our common hare in size. 1859 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) I. 588 The Spring Haas, or Cape Gerboa, sometimes called, from its hare-like aspect, the Cape Leaping Hare. leaping spider n. ‘a jumping spider, one of the Saltigradæ’ (W.). C2. leaping ague n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > chorea tirla1585 St. Vitus's dance1621 chorea1686 St. Vitus's jig1702 leaping ague1792 St. Vitus's fit1836 dancing-mania1877 Huntington's disease1889 Sydenham's chorea1892 dancing-plague- 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 5 A distemper called by the country-people the leaping-ague, and by physicians, St. Vitus's dance. 1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 375 In the mountainous part of Angus a singular disease, called there the leaping ague, is said to exist, bearing a resemblance to St. Vitus's dance. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > gout dropc1000 podagraOE goutc1290 podagrec1300 arthritic?a1450 podagrya1538 arthritis1543 joint-sickness1545 leaping gout1562 goutiness1632 wind-gout1662 podarthritis1846 1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 6, in 2nd Pt. Herball This bathe..is good for the leping goute, that runneth from one ioynte to another. Derivatives ˈleapingly adv. by leaps. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adverb] leapingly1548 springingly1668 boundingly1838 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Assultim, leapyngly, iumpyngly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < |
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