Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Jump \Jump\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jumped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Jumping}.] [Akin to OD. gumpen, dial. G. gumpen, jumpen.]
   1. To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of
      the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air;
      to spring; to bound; to leap.

            Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and
            a half by the square.                 -- Shak.

   2. To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt. ``The
      jumping chariots.'' --Nahum iii. 2.

            A flock of geese jump down together.  -- Dryden.

   3. To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by
      with. ``It jumps with my humor.'' --Shak.

   {To jump at}, to spring to; hence, fig., to accept suddenly
      or eagerly; as, a fish jumps at a bait; to jump at a
      chance.