Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or
appearance; lively.
1. The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past. Bp. Hall. 2. (Rhet.) A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis. 3. (Law) The omission by a testator of some one of...
