Reverse Dictionary: LEAP

ADJECTIVES
► BEVISING leaping, jumping → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAUNCHANT darting, leaping → c1400 obs.
► SALIENT leaping, jumping → 1646
► SALTANT leaping, jumping, dancing → 1601 obs.
► SALTATORIAL characterized by leaping or dancing → 1789
► SALTATORIOUS characterized by leaping or dancing → 1816
► SALTITANT leaping or springing → 1654 obs.
► SUBSULTIVE making or moving by sudden leaps, bounds, or starts → 1750
► SUBSULTORIOUS making or moving by sudden leaps, bounds, or starts → 1898
► SUBSULTORY making or moving by sudden leaps, bounds, or starts → 1638

NOUNS
► BEND a spring, a leap, a bound → 1513 Sc. obs.
► CAPRIOLE a leap or caper, as in dancing → 1594
► EXULTATION the act of leaping or springing up → 1599 obs.
► FLIER ► FLYER a long flying leap; a bound → colloq.
► FLY a flying leap → 1899
► GROUND-HOP a leap from the ground → 1602 obs.
► LANCE a leap, bound, dash → 1375 obs.
► LENCH a leap, a spring → 1606 Sc. obs.
► LOPE a leaping → a1400 obs.
► RUN-AN’-GO a run before leaping → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SALIENCE the quality of leaping or springing up → 1836
► SALIENCY leaping or jumping → 1664 obs.
► SALITION a leaping → a1682 obs.
► SALTATION leaping, bounding, or jumping; a leap → 1646 
► SALTATIVENESS the faculty of leaping or jumping → 1829
► SALTION a leaping → 1533 obs.
► SALTURE a leaping or dancing → 1655 obs.
► SAULT a leap, a jump; esp. of horses → a1350 obs.
► SPANG a bound, leap, or spring → 1817 Eng. dial. 
► SPRIT a sudden quick movement; a spring, a jump, a leap → 1880 Sc.
► STEND a leap, spring, or bound → a1500 Sc.
► VAIGE ► VAYGE ► VEGE an impetus; a rush; a short run before taking a leap → 1842 Eng. dial.
► VAPOUR a caper; a leap → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► VEASE a rush, impetus; a run before a leap → c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► LOPER a leaper, a dancer → 1483 obs.
► VAULTER one who vaults, jumps, or leaps → 1565

VERBS
► BEND to spring, to leap, to bound → c1530 Sc. obs.
► BIRD-WORK to leap, to hop, to progress by a series of high jumps → 1923 Amer. dial.
► BOUT to bolt, to spring, to leap; to rise quickly from beneath a surface → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CADARUP to leap about; to cavort → 1911 Amer. dial.
► CAPRIOLE to leap, to skip, to caper; also said of horses and their riders → 1580
► EXULT to spring or leap up; to leap for joy → 1570 obs.
► HALLELUJAH to leap or move violently about → 1961 Amer. dial.
► LAKE to exert oneself, to move quickly, to leap, to spring; hence, to fight → a1000 obs.
► LANCE to spring forward; to leap, to bound → 1802 Sc.
► LAUNCH to leap, to jump, to vault → c1400 obs.
► LOPE to leap, to jump, to spring → 1483 obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial.
► SALLY to leap, to bound, to dance → c1440 obs.
► SALTATE to leap; to jump; to skip; to dance → 1623 obs.
► SAULT ► SAUTE to leap, to dance → 1377 obs.
► SCOUP to run, to move hastily; to scamper; to leap, to skip → 1721 Sc.
► SKIT to shy or be skittish; to move lightly and rapidly; to caper, to leap, to spring → 1611
► STEND to bound, to leap, to spring up → 1567 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SUBSULT to leap, to hop, to jump about → 1656 obs.
► TAKE A RAISE to run a little backward for the better advantage of leaping forward → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TAKE OFF to leap from a mark → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TRIPUDIATE to dance, skip, or leap for joy or with excitement; to exult → 1623