To jump about playfully.
To engage in libidinous behavior.
To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.
To skip or leap about in play; to skip and hop.
To bargain or wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); SYN. higgle, chaffer, huckster, dicker.
ETYM Cf. Italian scalare, from Latin scalae, scala. Related to Scale a ladder.
1. To reach the highest point of; SYN. surmount.
2. To climb up by means of a ladder.
3. To take by attacking with scaling ladders.
4. To measure by or as if by a scale.
5. To measure with or as if with scales.
6. To pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard.
7. To size or measure according to a scale.
8. To remove the scales from; SYN. descale.
ETYM Cf. Old Fren. volter, French voltiger, Italian voltire turn. Related to Vault.
1. To bound vigorously.
2. To jump across or leap over (an obstacle); SYN. overleap.