leum

pr pt a' leum, a' leumadh, a' leumartaich & a' leumnaich, va & n. Leap, bound. 2 Leap over or across. 3 Spring, skip, frisk, hop, jump. 4 Start. 5* Fight, quarrel. 6†† Shake. 7†† Flaw. 8(MS) Cover. 9 Pass, as time, or through space. 10(DU) Squirt out. 11 Make a slip of the tongue. Leum mo theanga(dh) orm, my tongue slipped, “I put my foot in it” — said by one who unwittingly says a thing that he regrets and would rather not have said — W. Coast of Ross; leum iad air a chéile, they quarrelled; nuair a leumas e an Fhéill-Brìghde, chan earb an sionnach 'earball ris an deigh, when Candlemas is past, the fox will not trust his tail to the ice; leum air, attack suddenly, seize greedily; leum e air a' mheadhan-oidhche, it passed midnight; bho Chluaidh nan long gleusta gun leum e Port Phàdraig, from Clyde of the trim ships till Port Patrick (in Islay) is reached.

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