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To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage. [Prov. or Low]

Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious. The fierce lion in his kind Which goeth rampant after his prey. Gower. [The] lion . . . rampant shakes his brinded mane. Milton.

Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.

To leap back; to rebound. [Obs.] The huge round stone, resulting with a bound. Pope.

To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.

That quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne.

To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally. They break the truce, and sally out by night. Dryden. The foe retires, -- she heads the sallying host. Byron.

The act of leaping or jumping; a leap. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Leaping; jumping; dancing.

To leap or dance. [R.]

A leaping or jumping. Continued his saltation without pause. Sir W. Scott.

Relating to leaping; saltatory; as, saltatorial exercises.

Capable of leaping; formed for leaping; saltatory; as, a saltatorious insect or leg.

Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing. Saltatory evolution (Biol.), a theory of evolution which holds that the transmutation of species is not always gradual, but that there may come sudden and marked variations. See Saltation. -- Saltatory spasm (Med.), an affection in which pressure…

A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders.

Having feet or legs formed for leaping.

bits, or breeds in, sandy places, especially the common dog flea. (b) the chigoe. (c) Any leaping amphipod crustacean; a beach flea, or orchestian. See Beach flea, under Beach. -- Sand flood, a vast body of sand borne along by the wind. James Bruce. -- Sand fluke. (Zoöl.) (a) The sandnecker. (b) The European smooth d…

Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight. The dog leaps upon the serpent, and tears it to pieces; but in the scuffle the cradle happened to be overturned. L'Estrange.