noun. One that leads or guides.

noun. One who is in charge or in command of others.

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noun. One who heads a political party or organization.

noun. One who has influence or power, especially of a political nature.

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noun. A conductor, especially of an orchestra, band, or choral group.

noun. The principal performer in an orchestral section or a group.

noun. The foremost animal, such as a horse or dog, in a harnessed team.

noun. A loss leader.

noun. The main editorial in a newspaper.

noun. Dots or dashes in a row leading the eye across a page, as in an index entry.

noun. A pipe for conducting liquid.

noun. A short length of fishing line between the main line and the hook.

noun. A blank strip at the end or beginning of a film or tape used in threading or winding.

noun. The growing apex or main shoot of a shrub or tree.

noun. An economic indicator.

noun. A plumber.

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noun. The first player on any trick in a game of cards; the player who sits on the dealer's left.

noun. One who leads, guides, conducts, directs, or controls; a director or conductor; a chief or commander.

noun. One who is first or most prominent in any relation; one who takes precedence by virtue of superior qualification or influence; a recognized principal or superior: as, leaders of society; a leader of the bar.

noun. In the Meth. Epis. Ch., one who has charge of a “class,” which he meets at stated times, and over which he exercises a quasi-pastoral supervision. See class, n., 3 .

noun. In music:

noun. A conductor or director.

noun. The principal first-violin player in an orchestra (concert-master), the principal cornettist in a band, or the principal soprano in a chorus.

noun. That which leads or conducts; something that guides the course of a thing, or conducts to it.

noun. In surveying, the foremost of the two chain-carriers.

noun. A ring or gripper used for leading cattle, passed through the septum of the nose.

noun. That which precedes; something that has a leading or foremost place, whether in actual position or in importance.

noun. The principal wheel in a set of machinery.

noun. A principal editorial article in a newspaper; one of the longer articles in a newspaper appearing as its own utterances or expressions of editorial views, whether written by the ostensible editor or by leader-writers or contributors.

noun. A sinew; a tendon: as, the leaders of the fingers or toes.

noun. Something offered as a special attraction to customers; a leading “bargain.”

noun. In botany, the terminal shoot of an excurrent trunk, commonly forming the apex of a cone-shaped tree, as in the fir and the larch.

noun. = Syn. 1 and 2. Commander, Head, etc. See chief.

noun. One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.

noun. One who goes first.

noun. One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.

noun. A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.

noun. A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.

noun. The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.

noun. A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.

noun. A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.

noun. A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.

noun. A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.

noun. The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.

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noun. A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.

noun. a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.

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