Definition of lead

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Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man..

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Introductory :: Introductory (a.) Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse..
Dupe :: Dupe (n.) To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows..
Train :: Train (v.) A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like..
Confidence :: Confidence (n.) The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed..
Charge :: Charge (n.) Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club..
Drib :: Drib (v. t.) To lead along step by step; to entice.
Sea King :: Sea king () One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.
Pleadingly :: Pleadingly (adv.) In a pleading manner.
Propylaeum :: Propylaeum (n.) Any court or vestibule before a building or leading into any inclosure.
Leaded :: Leaded (a.) Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows..
Hessite :: Hessite (n.) A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.
Leading :: Leading (a.) Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example..
False :: False (a.) To mislead by want of truth; to deceive.
Ladde :: Ladde (obs. imp.) of Lead, to guide..
Buckshot :: Buckshot (n.) A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game..
Tribe :: Tribe (n.) A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe..
Tempt :: Tempt (v. t.) To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce..
Deepen :: Deepen (v. i.) To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens..
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