| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A kind of loose jacket for men. 2. (n.) A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century. 3. (v. i.) To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap. 4. (v. i.) To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt. 5. (v. i.) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with. 6. (v. t.) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream. 7. (v. t.) To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch. 8. (v. t.) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard. 9. (v. t.) To join by a butt weld. 10. (v. t.) To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset. 11. (v. t.) To bore with a jumper. 12. (n.) The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. 13. (n.) An effort; an attempt; a venture. 14. (n.) The space traversed by a leap. 15. (n.) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault. 16. (n.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry. 17. (a.) Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise. 18. (adv.) Exactly; pat. | Multi-Version Concordance Jump (3 Occurrences) Acts 27:43 But their Captain, bent on securing Paul's safety, kept them from their purpose and gave orders that those who could swim should first jump overboard and get to land; (WEY NAS NIV) Leviticus 11:21 But of the winged four-footed things, those which have long legs for jumping on the earth you may have for food; (Root in BBE NAS) Nehemiah 4:3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall. (See NAS) |