Leap"ing, a. & n. 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.
Leap"ing*ly, adv. By leaps.
Leap" year` (?). 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.
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.