Hleápan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hleápan

In the last passage for 452 read 482, and add: I. to run, go hastily or with violence, rush :-- Hī gebundon þone bysceop be þām fōtum on sumne fearr, and þone gegremedon ꝥ hē hleóp on unsmēde eordan, Shrn. 152, l. Hēr Rōdbert þæs cynges sunu hleóp fram his fæder, Chr. 1079; P. 213, 32. Hleópon (so in the [facsimile of the] MS. , not hleówon) hornboran, hreópan friccan, El. 54. Gif hē ūt hleápe . . . And gif mon þone hlāford teó ꝥ hē be his rǣde ūt hleópe, Ll. Th. i. 282, 2-5. II. to jump, spring :-- Hé āwearp his hrægl him of and hleóp on done mere (cf. hē unscrȳdde hine sylfne and scǣt intō dām mere, Hml. S. II. 211), Shrn. 62, 9. II a. to leap on to a horse; hleápan ūp to mount: II :-- Hleóp ascendit (equum), An. Ox. 2142. Þā hēt ic þā hors gerwan and eóredmen hleápan ūp imperaui equitibus ut ascen-derent equos, Nar. 21, 22. III. to spring up and down, jump about. v. hleápettan :-- Hē gefēng his swīdran, ārǣrde hine upp, and hē hleóp sōna cunnigende his fēdes hweder hē cūde gān (apprehensa manu ejus dextera, allevavit eum . . . Et exsiliens stetit, et ambulabat, Acts 3, 8), Hml. S. 10, 32. IV. of non-material things, where there is rapid extension, to mount up at a bound :-- Mīn unriht mē hlȳpd nū ofer heáfod iniquitates meae superposuerunt caput meum, Ps. Th. 37, 4. v. oþ-hleápan. hleapan

Related words: hleápere;