Lark and Leap

noun

• North American songbirds having a yellow breast.
  • synonyms: meadowlark
• A songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage.
  • synonyms: pipit, titlark
• Any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing.
• Any carefree episode.
  • synonyms: escapade

verb

• Play boisterously.
  • usage: "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"
  • synonyms: frolic, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about

• (v.i.) To catch larks; as, to go larking.
• (n.) Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks or horned by the shore larks or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors.
• (v.i.) A frolic; a jolly time.
• (v.i.) To sport; to frolic.

• English, American: From the English word for the type of songbird
• English: Lark

noun

• A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards.
  • synonyms: leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce
• An abrupt transition.
  • usage: "a successful leap from college to the major leagues"
  • synonyms: jump, saltation
• A sudden and decisive increase.
  • usage: "a jump in attendance"
  • synonyms: jump
• The distance leaped (or to be leaped. )
  • usage: "a leap of 10 feet"

verb

• Move forward by leaps and bounds.
  • usage: "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence"
  • synonyms: jump, bound, spring
• Pass abruptly from one state or topic to another.
  • usage: "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another"
  • synonyms: jump
• Jump down from an elevated point.
  • usage: "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"
  • synonyms: jump, jump off
• Cause to jump or leap.
  • usage: "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"
  • synonyms: jump

• (v.t.) To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
• (n.) A basket.
• (n.) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
• (v.i.) 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.
• (v.t.) To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.
• (n.) Copulation with or coverture of, a female beast.
• (v.t.) To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall or a ditch.
• (n.) A weel or wicker trap for fish.
• (n.) The act of leaping or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.
• (v.i.) To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.
• (n.) A fault.

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