Definition of lead

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Lead (n.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing..

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Desilver :: Desilver (v. t.) To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead..
Pleadingly :: Pleadingly (adv.) In a pleading manner.
Leadership :: Leadership (n.) The office of a leader.
Valedictory :: Valedictory (n.) A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar..
Yoke :: Yoke (n.) A crosspiece upon the head of a boat's rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships.
Leading :: Leading (n.) Suggestion; hint; example.
Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led..
Uplead :: Uplead (v. t.) To lead upward.
Argentiferous :: Argentiferous (a.) Producing or containing silver; as, argentiferous lead ore or veins..
Decoy :: Decoy (v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net..
Pleader :: Pleader (n.) One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate.
Diachylum :: Diachylum (n.) A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids..
Placitum :: Placitum (n.) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.
Woodbury-type :: Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing..
Adhere :: Adhere (v. i.) To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church..
Conductor :: Conductor (n.) The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.
Decoy :: Decoy (n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection..
Fugleman :: Fugleman (n.) Hence, one who leads the way..
Headman :: Headman (n.) A head or leading man, especially of a village community..
Wood''s Metal :: Wood's metal () A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66? to 71? C. See Fusible metal, under Fusible..
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