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Having but little sense or shrewdness.

The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.

Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.

The condition or quality of being lean.

Lean. [Obs.] Spenser.

To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse. Bacon. Leap in with me into this angry flood. Shak.

. 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.

One who, or that which, leaps.

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

A basketful. [Obs.]

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.

By leaps.

To learn. See Lere, to learn. [Obs.]

instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something. "Learn to do well." Is. i. 17. Now learn a parable of the fig tree. Matt. xxiv. 32.…

Such as can be learned.

Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be little knowing. Locke. Words…

One who learns; a scholar.

The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.

Such as can be leased.

To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.] Dryden.