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Outleap

Outleap \Out*leap"\, v. t. To surpass in leaping.

Outleap

Outleap \Out"leap`\, n. A sally. [R.]
--Locke.

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outleap

n. A sally; flight; escape. vb. 1 To leap out, as if from an ambush. 2 To leap beyond or farther than.

Usage examples of "outleap".

Miss Gibbie leaned over and with the poker broke a large lump of coal, making it blaze and roar in licking, outleaping flames.

His superior power was ready, capable of outleaping that rusting antique by a hundredfold, equipped with instruments which could, in that micro-microinstant of blinking, measure and follow and emerge within a few thousand miles of any blinking ship.

But even the most foolish swaggerer of them could not call milksop a man who could out-ride, outleap, outfence, outhunt him.

Again the large gray Bruweiler outleaped his companions and snatched the rabbit out of the air.

Like a reversed echo it began to beat back along the path of its own shock wave, back to its violent birth in that primal moment of terror that outleaped time.