▪ I. capering, vbl. n.1
(ˈkeɪpərɪŋ)
[f. caper v. + -ing1.]
Frolicsome dancing or leaping.
| 1599 Marston Sco. Villanie 193 To shew his capring skill. 1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 84 The leaping and capering she [the hare] displays. 1868 Helps Realmah xv. (1876) 410 Not to be indulged in caperings of their own. |
▪ II. † ˈcapering, vbl. n.2 Obs.
[f. caper v.2 + -ing1.]
Privateering.
| 1676 W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 491 The Scots capering did not a little irritate the Dutch. |
▪ III. ˈcapering, ppl. a.
[f. caper v. + -ing2.]
That capers, dancing.
| 1595 Markham Sir R. Griniule xxiv, A winde-taught capring Ship. 1597 1st Pt. Ret. fr. Parnass. v. i. 1418 A capringe page. 1698 Rowe Amb. Stepm. Prol. 21 Nor capering monsieur from Active France. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth ii, Those gallants, with their capering horses. |
Hence ˈcaperingly adv.
| 1641 Brome Jov. Crew i. Wks. 1873 III. 366 Most crowse most capringly. |