Definition of lead

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Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil..

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Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul..
Equivocation :: Equivocation (n.) The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead..
Leader :: Leader (n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.
Kingdom :: Kingdom (n.) An extensive scientific division distinguished by leading or ruling characteristics; a principal division; a department; as, the mineral kingdom..
Gimlet :: Gimlet (n.) A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle..
Pyromorphite :: Pyromorphite (n.) Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; -- so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling..
Shot :: Shot (n.) Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot..
Lead :: Lead (n.) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke..
Dade :: Dade (v. i.) To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly..
Plumbing :: Plumbing (n.) The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc..
Pelican :: Pelican (n.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
Betray :: Betray (v. t.) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
Inconvertibility :: Inconvertibility (n.) The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold..
Issue :: Issue (v. i.) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue..
Shepherd :: Shepherd (v. t.) To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd..
Oratrix :: Oratrix (n.) A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading..
Introduction :: Introduction (n.) That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium..
Principal :: Principal (n.) A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant..
Astray :: Astray (adv. & a.) Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray..
Leady :: Leady (a.) Resembling lead.
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