2. Noun. The motion of one who capers. ¹
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Definition of Capering
1. caper [v] - See also: caper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capering
Literary usage of Capering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"I'm the sailor-boy For capering ashore. Father he apprenticed me All to a coasting
ship, I being resolved, d'ye sec, To give them all the slip ; I got to ..."
2. Memoirs of Richard Cumberland by Richard Cumberland (1806)
"who was capering for joy and continually crying out— " Massa Garrick, do so make
me laugh : I shall die with " laughing—." The story I have no doubt is true ..."
3. Father and Son: Biographical Recollections by Edmund Gosse (1907)
"... where a devil was seen capering over a sort of box let neatly into the ground—he
worked himself up into a frame of mind which was not a little ..."
4. Mathematical Questions and Solutions by W. J. C. Miller (1872)
"In the final dance The circles be all of under three- All couples or capering
unity P" Say, what's the chance 3402. (Proposed by the Eev. ..."
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