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A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.

ng; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation. His happiness is in his own keeping. South.

Shining; brilliant. [Obs.] "Lamping eyes." Spenser.

Vagrant; wandering about.

A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. Ure. Lapping engine, Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.

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.

In a limping manner.

With a lisp; in a lisping manner.

of Loop. Looping snail (Zoöl.), any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.

A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings. The loppings made from that stock whilst it stood. Burke.

An enzoötic, often fatal, disease of sheep and other domestic animals, of unknown cause. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.

Bulky; heavy. Arbuthnot.

The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.

Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.

In a nipping manner.

See Peephole.

Little; petty; pitiful. [Obs.] Crabbe.

Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping swains." Swift.

The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.