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<p><b>3.</b> <def>A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils.</def>

<cs><col>Black lead</col>, <cd>graphite or plumbago, ; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>Coasting lead</col>, <cd>a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead.</cd> -- <col>Deep-sea lead</col>, <cd>the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. <i>Ham. Nav. Encyc.</i></cd> -- <col>Hand lead</col>, <cd>a small lead use for sounding in shallow water.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Krems lead</col>, <col>Kremnitz lead</col></mcol> <ety>[so called from <ets>Krems or Kremnitz<ets>, in Austria]</ety>, <cd>a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also <altname>Krems</altname>, or <altname>Kremnitz</altname>, <altname>white</altname>, and <altname>Vienna white</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Lead arming</col>, <cd>tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See <cref>To arm the lead</cref> (below).</cd> -- <col>Lead colic</col>. <cd>See under <er>Colic</er>.</cd> -- <col>Lead color</col>, <cd>a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead.</cd> -- <col>Lead glance</col>. <fld>(Min.)</fld> <cd>Same as <er>Galena</er>.</cd> -- <col>Lead line</col> <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <cd>A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning</cd>. <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>A sounding line.</cd> -- <col>Lead mill</col>, <cd>a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries.</cd> -- <col>Lead ocher</col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as <er>Massicot</er>.</cd> -- <col>Lead pencil</col>, <cd>a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead).</cd> -- <col>Lead plant</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a low leguminous plant, genus <spn>Amorpha</spn> (<spn>A. canescens</spn>), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. <i>Gray</i>.</cd> -- <col>Lead tree</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <cd>A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, <spn>Leuc\'91na glauca</spn>; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <cd>Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate.</cd> -- <col>Mock lead</col>, <cd>a miner's term for blende.</cd> -- <col>Red lead</col>, <cd>a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass.</cd> -- <col>Red lead ore</col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>crocoite.</cd> -- <col>Sugar of lead</col>, <cd>acetate of lead.</cd> -- <col>To arm the lead</col>, <cd>to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. <i>Ham. Nav. Encyc.</i></cd> -- <mcol><col>To</col> <col>cast, &or; heave</col>, <col>the lead</col></mcol>, <cd>to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water.</cd> -- <col>White lead</col>, <cd>hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Lead</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Leaded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Leading</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cover, fill, or affect with lead; <as>as, continuous firing <ex>leads</ex> the grooves of a rifle</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>To place leads between the lines of; <as>as, to <ex>lead</ex> a page; <ex>leaded</ex> matter.</as></def>

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<hw>Lead</hw> <tt>(l&emac;d)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Led</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Leading</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>leden</ets>, AS. <ets>l<?/dan</ets> (akin to OS. <ets>l<?/dian</ets>, D. <ets>leiden</ets>, G. <ets>leiten</ets>,Icel. <ets>le<?/<?/a</ets>, Sw. <ets>leda</ets>, Dan.<ets>lede</ets>), properly a causative fr. AS. <ets>li<?/an</ets> to go; akin to OHG. <ets>l<?/<?/a</ets>, Icel. <ets>l<?/<?/a</ets>,Goth. <ets>leipan</ets> (in comp.). Cf. <er>Lode</er>, <er>Loath</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; <as>as, a father <ex>leads</ex> a child; a jockey <ex>leads</ex> a horse with a halter; a dog <ex>leads</ex> a blind man.</as></def>

<blockquote>If a blind man <b>lead</b> a blind man, both fall down in the ditch. <i>Wyclif (Matt. xv. 14.)</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They thrust him out of the city, and <b>led</b> him unto the brow of the hill. <i>Luke iv. 29.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>In thy right hand <b>lead</b> with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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>as, to <ex>lead</ex> a traveler; to <ex>lead</ex> a pupil.</as></def>

<blockquote>The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to <b>lead</b> them the way. <i>Ex. xiii. 21.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He <b>leadeth</b> me beside the still waters. <i>Ps. xxiii. 2.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>This thought might <b>lead</b> me through the world's vain mask. Content, though blind, had I no better guide. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; <as>as, to <ex>lead</ex> an army, an exploring party, or a search; to <ex>lead</ex> a political party.</as></def>

<blockquote>Christ took not upon him flesh and blood that he might conquer and rule nations, <b>lead</b> armies, or possess places. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; <as>as, the big sloop <ex>led</ex> the fleet of yachts; the Guards <ex>led</ex> the attack; Demosthenes <ex>leads</ex> the orators of all ages.</as></def>

<blockquote>As Hesperus, that <b>leads</b> the sun his way. <i>Fairfax.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And <b>lo</b> ! Ben Adhem's name <b>led</b> all the rest. <i>Leigh Hunt.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; <as>as, to <ex>lead</ex> one to espouse a righteous cause</as>.</def>

<blockquote>He was driven by the necessities of the times, more than <b>led</b> by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions. <i>Eikon Basilike.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Silly women, laden with sins,<b>led</b> away by divers lusts. <i>2 Tim. iii. 6 (Rev. Ver.).</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).</def>

<blockquote>That we may <b>lead</b> a quiet and peaceable life. <i>1 Tim. ii. 2.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that <b>leads</b> melodious days. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>You remember . . . the life he used to <b>lead</b> his wife and daughter. <i>Dickens.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Cards & Dominoes)</fld> <def>To begin a game, round, or trick, with; <as>as, to <ex>lead</ex> trumps; the double five was <ex>led</ex>.</as></def>

<cs><col>To lead astray</col>, <cd>to guide in a wrong way, or into error; to seduce from truth or rectitude.</cd> -- <col>To lead captive</col>, <cd>to carry or bring into captivity.</cd> -- <col>To lead the way</col>, <cd>to show the way by going in front; to act as guide.</cd> <i>Goldsmith</i>.</cs>