adv. [ Pref. a- + heap. ] In a heap; huddled together. Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) See Neaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. ceáp bargain, sale, price; akin to D. koop purchase, G. kauf, Icel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i. ] A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Abbrev. fr. “good cheap”: a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon marché, à bon marché. See Cheap, n., Cheapen. ] 1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean. [ 1913 Webster ]

You grow cheap in every subject's eye. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Cheaply. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To buy; to bargain. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cheapened p. pr. & vb. n. Cheapening. ] [ OE. cheapien, chepen, to trade, buy, sell, AS. ceápian; akin to D. koopen to buy, G. kaufen, Icel. kaupa, Goth. kaupōn to trade. Cf. Chap to bargain. ] 1. To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for. [ Obsoles. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. Cheap, a. ] To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

My proffered love has cheapened me. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who cheapens. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A seller of low-priced, shoddy, or second goods; a hawker.
Syn. -- huckster, hawker, tout. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. costing much less than standard price; as, the store went out of business and sold their remaining stock for dirt-cheap prices.
Syn. -- bargain-priced, cut-rate, cut-price. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. cheap; inexpensive and of inferior quality; as, an el cheapo cigar. [ jocose slang ] [ PJC ]

a. [ Gr. 'enne`a nine + E. petalous: cf. F. ennéapétale. ] (Bot.) Having nine petals, or flower leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To set, order, or appoint, beforehand. Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Previous appointment; preordinantion. Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. heep, heap, heap, multitude, AS. heáp; akin to OS. hōp, D. hoop, OHG. houf, hūfo, G. haufe, haufen, Sw. hop, Dan. hob, Icel. hōpr troop, flock, Russ. kupa heap, crowd, Lith. kaupas. Cf. Hope, in Forlorn hope. ] 1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons. [ Now Low or Humorous ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The wisdom of a heap of learned men. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A heap of vassals and slaves. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had heaps of friends. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile; as, a heap of trouble. [ Now Low or Humorous ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have noticed a heap of things in my life. R. L. Stevenson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones. [ 1913 Webster ]

Huge heaps of slain around the body rise. Dryden.

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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Heaped p. pr. & vb. n. Heaping. ] [ AS. heápian. ] 1. To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though he heap up silver as the dust. Job. xxvii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who heaps, piles, or amasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a large quantity. See heap, senses 2 and 3; as, he made heaps of money in the stock market.
Syn. -- tons, dozens, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Lying in heaps. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Landlouper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. leáp. ] 1. A basket. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A weel or wicker trap for fish. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Leaped rarely Leapt p. pr. & vb. n. Leaping. ] [ OE. lepen, leapen, AS. hleápan to leap, jump, run; akin to OS. āhlōpan, OFries. hlapa, D. loopen, G. laufen, OHG. louffan, hlauffan, Icel. hlaupa, Sw. löpa, Dan. löbe, Goth. ushlaupan. Cf. Elope, Lope, Lapwing, Loaf to loiter. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leap in with me into this angry flood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig. [ 1913 Webster ]

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To copulate with (a female beast); to cover. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wickedness comes on by degrees, . . . and sudden leaps from one extreme to another are unnatural. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides. H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining) A fault. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hleápere. ] One who, or that which, leaps. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Leap. ] A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Leap. ] A basketful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Leap, to jump. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leaping house, a brothel. [ Obs. ] Shak. --
Leaping pole, a pole used in some games of leaping. --
Leaping spider (Zool.), a jumping spider; one of the Saltigradæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By leaps. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n.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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year, excepting the full centuries, which, to be leap years, must be divisible by 400 without a remainder. If not so divisible they are common years. 1900, therefore, is not a leap year, but 2000 is. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Neb, Nape. ] The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ As. nēpflōd neap flood; cf. hnipian to bend, incline. ] Low. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neap tides, the lowest tides of the lunar month, which occur in the second and fourth quarters of the moon; -- opposed to spring tides. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A neap tide. [ 1913 Webster ]

High springs and dead neaps. Harkwill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. [ L. Neapolitanus, fr. Neapolis Naples, Gr. &unr_;, lit., New town. ] Of of pertaining to Naples in Italy. -- n. A native or citizen of Naples. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }. (a) An ice or ice cream containing eggs as well as cream. (b) An ice or ice cream prepared in layers, as vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate ice cream, and orange or lemon water ice. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A weapon of great explosive power, such as an atomic bomb or a hydrogen bomb, which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy from within atomic nuclei by a nuclear reaction. A fission weapon or a fusion weapon. The term includes atomic shells for cannon. [ PJC ]

v. t. To surpass in leaping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sally. [ R. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. oferhleápan. See Over, and Leap. ] To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore. “Let me o'erleap that custom.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To appoint previously, or beforehand. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Previous appointment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reaped p. pr. & vb. n. Reaping. ] [ OE. repen, AS. rīpan to seize, reap; cf. D. rapen to glean, reap, G. raufen to pluck, Goth. raupjan, or E. ripe. ] 1. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting. [ 1913 Webster ]

When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field. Lev. xix. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing
For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reaping hook, an implement having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest. [ 1913 Webster ]

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Ps. cxxvi. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. rīp harvest. See Reap, v. ] A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]