Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
LEAPS
Proper noun
Leaps
plural of Leap
Anagrams
• ALSEP, ELSPA, Lapes, Pales, Peals, Slape, e-pals, lapse, lepas, pales, peals, pleas, salep, sepal, slape, spale
Noun
leaps
plural of leap
Anagrams
• ALSEP, ELSPA, Lapes, Pales, Peals, Slape, e-pals, lapse, lepas, pales, peals, pleas, salep, sepal, slape, spale
Source: Wiktionary
LEAP
Leap, n. Etym: [AS. leáp.]
1. A basket. [Obs.] Wyclif.
2. A weel or wicker trap for fish. [Prov. Eng.]
Leap, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leaped, rarely Leapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Leaping.] Etym: [OE. lepen, leapen, AS. hleápan to leap, jump, run; akin to OS. ahl, 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. Leap in with me into this angry flood. Shak.
2. To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky. Wordsworth.
Leap, v. t.
1. To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
2. To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
3. To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.
Leap, n.
1. The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound. Wickedness comes on by degrees, . . . and sudden leaps from one extreme to another are unnatural. L'Estrange. Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides. H. Sweet.
2. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
3. (Mining)
Definition: A fault.
4. (Mus.)
Definition: A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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