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21saltarello — /sal teuh rel oh, sawl /; It. /sahl tah rddel law/, n., pl. saltarellos, It. saltarelli / lee/. 1. a lively Italian dance for one person or a couple. 2. the music for it. [1590 1600; < It, deriv. of saltare to dance; see SALTANT] * * * ▪ dance… …
22saltation — saltational, adj. /sal tay sheuhn/, n. 1. a dancing, hopping, or leaping movement. 2. an abrupt movement or transition. 3. Geol. intermittent, leaping movement of particles of sand or gravel, as from the force of wind or running water. 4. Biol. a …
23saltigrade — /sal ti grayd , sawl /, adj. 1. moving by leaping. 2. belonging or pertaining to the family Salticidae, comprising the jumping spiders. [1830 40; < L salt(are) to jump (see SALTANT) + I + GRADE] * * * …
24saltire — /sal tir, tuyeur, sawl /, n. Heraldry. 1. an ordinary in the form of a cross with arms running diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base and from the sinister chief to the dexter base; St. Andrew s cross. 2. in saltire, (of charges)… …
25bouncing — Synonyms and related words: active, activist, activistic, alive, animated, beefy, bouncy, bounding, breezy, brisk, bubbly, chipper, doughty, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, frisky, full of go, full of life,… …
26jumping — Synonyms and related words: bouncing, bounding, capering, hopping, hurdle race, hurdling, leaping, pole vaulting, prancing, saltant, saltation, saltatorial, saltatory, skipping, springing, steeplechase, the hurdles, timber topping, vaulting …
27leaping — Synonyms and related words: anabatic, ascendant, ascending, ascensional, ascensive, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, bouncing, bounding, capering, cheerful, chirping, climbing, dancing, flushed with joy, gay, glad, glowing, happy …
28prancing — Synonyms and related words: bouncing, bounding, capering, hopping, hurdle race, hurdling, jumping, leaping, pole vaulting, saltant, saltation, saltatorial, saltatory, skipping, springing, steeplechase, the hurdles, timber topping, vaulting …
29saltatory — Synonyms and related words: anabatic, ascendant, ascending, ascensional, ascensive, bouncing, bounding, climbing, convulsive, eclamptic, fidgety, fitful, hopping, in the ascendant, jerking, jerky, jiggety, jumping, jumpy, leaping, mounting,… …
30ACUPEDES — Latinis veterib. dicti sunt, qui Graecis ὀτρύποδες, quasi acutipedes. Inde acupedium Festus interpretatur, cui praecipuum er at in currendo acumen peddum. Gloss. acupedium, ὀτρυποδία. Sic Pindarus ἀκμην`ποδῶν, i. e. acumen pedum, eleganter dixit …
