LEAPFUL
Leap"ful, n. Etym: [See 1st Leap.]
Defn: A basketful. [Obs.]
LEAPING
Leap"ing, a. & n.
Defn: from Leap, to jump. Leaping house, a brothel. [Obs.] Shak.
— Leaping pole, a pole used in some games of leaping.
— Leaping spider (Zoöl.), a jumping spider; one of the Saltigradæ.
LEAPINGLY
Leap"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: By leaps.
LEAP YEAR
Leap" year`
Defn: . 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.
Note: Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year, excepting the full centuries, which, to be leap years, must be divisible by 400 without a remainder. If not so divisible they are common years. 1900, therefore, is not a leap year.
LEAR
Lear, v. t.