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Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.

One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder. I was to be a gapingstock and a scorn to the young volunteers. Godwin.

Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n.

In a griping or oppressive manner. Bacon.

In a groping manner.

The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.

Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies. Milton.

A harpoon. Evelyn.

The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem. [Written also harpins.] Totten.

Staying at home; not gadding. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Shak.

In a hopeful manner. Hammond.

The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing. Hopping Dick (Zoöl.), a thrush of Jamaica (Merula leucogenys), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.

pply of provisions. [Obs.] Tell me, softly and hastly, what's in the pantry Small housekeeping enough, said Phoebe. Sir W. Scott.

The act or process of grafting or mending. [Archaic]

o strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon. The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. Sir I. Newton. But, in the present order of things, not to be employed without impinging on God's justice. Bp. Warburton.

The act of impinging.

Striking against or upon.

To fatten; to make fat. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened. [Obs.]

of Jump, to leap. Jumping bean, a seed of a Mexican Euphorbia, containing the larva of a moth (Carpocapsa saltitans). The larva by its sudden movements causes the seed to roll to roll and jump about. -- Jumping deer (Zoöl.), a South African rodent (Pedetes Caffer), allied to the jerboa. -- Jumping jack, a toy figure…