leading 3386 
cause It lies but one half -step below the tonic or key-note, lead-Ocher (led'o'ker), . See massicot. 
and (in ascending passages) naturally leads into It. The -i-.j nar ,, l v(! jc C\P<\' r>a ral'i sisl n 
leading tone is characteristic of the modern as contrasted leaa-paraiySlS UiJ pa-rai 1-S1S;, . 
with the medieval modes, in all but one of which the seventh due to chronic lead-poisoning, 
tone was a whole step below the tonic ; hence it is some- lead-pencil (led'pen"sil), n. An instrument for 
times called the characteristic ton*.- Leading principle making marks or lines, or for writing or draw- 
of inference. Seemfemue. Leading question. See mnrln hv inolnsiTio , slin nf nliimhncm nr 
question.- Leading wind (naut.), a wind abeam or quar- U1 S> maae Dy inclosing a slip or plu 
iEering. graphite (which is commonly called black-lead) 
leading 2 (led'ing), n. [Verbal n. of lead?, -.] inasmall(generallycylindrical)casingof wood. 
1. Lead-work; the leads, as of a house; arti- lead-plant (led 'plant), n. A shrubby legu- 
cles of lead collectively. minous plant, Amorpha canescens, found from 
Michigan and Wisconsin southwestward, re- 
puted to indicate the presence of lead-ore. 
See Amorpha. 
lead-plaster (led^las^ter), n. An adhesive 
plaster made by boiling together lead oxid, 
guiding aTropVor purchase,' or holding it in a olive-oil, and water, the emplastrum plumbi of 
given position without impeding its motion. the pharmacopoeia. Also called diachylon. 
leading-hose (le'ding-hoz), n. The hose from lead-poisoning (led'poi"zon-ing), n. Poisoning 
which the water of a fire-engine is discharged. by the introduction into the body of some prepa- 
n i . . ,.. ; ~^i j _ _ j i j i- ? j. - i ^i 
The doors are glazed with a design made of leading and 
opalescent glass. Art Age, V. 47. 
2. Milit., the clogging of the grooves of a rifle 
by lead from the bullets, 
leading-block (le'ding-blok), n. A block for 
leaf 
the linear portion connecting the blade with the stem ; and 
a pair of appendages, the stipules, at the base of the petiole : 
but often the petiole, and 
still more often the stip- 
ules, are wanting. In 
any case, leaf very fre- 
quently denotes merely 
the blade, especially with 
descriptives : as, a cor- 
date, an ovate, a lanceo- 
late leaf, etc. Leaves are 
simple or compound, ac- 
cording as they have one 
o or several blades. They 
are distinguished also by 
the arrangement of their 
veins. (See nervation.) 
Physiologically, the nor- 
mal function of leaves 
is assimilation that is, 
the transformation of inorganic into organic matter, which 
takes place only in the green parts of the plant. But leaves 
may be converted to various other uses for example, into 
a, unifpliate leaf of orange (Citrus 
Aurantiutn); b, simple leaf of chest- 
nut (Castanea vrsca). 
leading-in (led'ing-in'), . The act or process ration of lead, as sugar of lead, white lead, etc. 
of putting together the parts of a stained-glass chronic lead-poisoning may exhibit one or more of the fol- 
window having lead cames. 
In a leading man- 
poisoning may t _______________________ 
lowing features : anemia, pains in the limbs, lead-colic, 
lead-paralysis, lead-encephalopathy, nephritis, etc. Also 
called plumbism. 
lead-pot (led'pot), n. A crucible or pot for 
, , A rod used in melting lead. E. H. Knight. 
drawboring and polishing the bores of rifle- lead-screw (led'skro), n. In mech., the main 
barrels. E. H. Knight. screw of a lathe, which gives the feed-motion 
to the slide-rest. 
lead-sinkers (led'sing'kerz), n. pi. In a knit- 
In English ting-machine, a series of plates attached to a 
sinker-bar, by which they are depressed all to- 
gether in order to form a loop between every 
two needles. They alternate with the jack- 
sinkers. 
leadsman 1 ! (ledz'man), n. [ME. ledesman; a 
var. of lodesman, q" v.] One who leads the 
way. 
I wyll be your ledes man, 
And lede you the way. 
Lytett Oeste of Rdbyn Hade (Child's Ballads, V. 108). 
Strings by which children are supported when leadsman 2 (ledz'man), n. Naut., a seaman who 
beginning to walk. heaves the lead. 
Was he ever able to walk without leading-strings, or lead-soap (led ' sop), n. An insoluble oleate, 
swim without bladders? Swift, palmitate, or stearate of lead, or a mixture of 
Hence 2. Restrictions imposed upon free- these salts. It is known in pharmacy as lead- 
dom of action; intrusive care or custody; re- plaster. 
straining guidance. lead-spar (led'spar), n. Cerusite. 
Leaving yon, within the tethering of certain leading- lead-tracery (led'tra"ser-i), n. The lead sashes 
strings, to gather what advantages you can. or ribbons, collectively, in any combination of 
Ruskin, Elem. of Drawing, iii. glass, as in a window, formed with leaden cames. 
To be in leading-strings, to be in a state of infancy or lead-tree (led'tre), n. A leguminous tree, Leu- 
lf^T nCe i i a ?y?f m Y 16 ^ ds of ot T hel T ecena qlauca, related to the acacias, it is native 
leading-Wheel (le'dmg-hwel), n. In locomo- in tropical America, and has been naturalised in Africa and 
tives, one of the wheels which are placed before Asia. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental tree in 
the driving-wheels. warm climates. 
leading-wires (le'ding-wirz), n. pi. lu elect., lead-vitriol (led'vit"ri-ol), re. Same as anglesite. 
same as leads. See lead 1 , 7 (b). lead-water (led'wa'ter), n. Aqueous solution 
leadingly (le'ding-li), adv. 
ner ; by leading, 
leading-rod (led'ing-rod), n. 
leading-screw (le'ding-skro), . Same as lead- 
screw. 
leading-spring (le'ding-spring), . 
locomotives, one of the springs fixed on the 
leading axle-box to bear the weight above. E. 
H. Knight. 
leading-Staff (le'ding-staf), n. Milit., the staff 
or baton of a field-marshal. [Kare.] 
After this action I preferred was, 
And chosen city-captain at Mile-End, 
With hat and feather, and with lead.ing-aa.ff. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Burning Pestle, v. 3. 
leading-strings (le'ding-stringz), n. pi. 1. 
lead-lap (led'lap), n. In gem-cutting, same as 
roughing-mill and lead-mill. 
subaoetate of lead, employed in medicine 
. as an external application. It is sedative and as- 
leadless (led'les), a. [< lead 2 + -less.~\ Having tringent It is the liquor plumbi subacetatus dilutes of 
** pharmacopoeia. 
no lead; not charged with a bullet. [Rare.] 
Little's brtta, pistol met his eye, 
lead-works (led'wferks), n. sing, or pi. A place 
Byron, Bug.' Bards and Scotch Reviewers. , ***** lead is extracted from the ore. 
leadwort (led'wert), n. [< lead% + ?ori.] 1. 
An herbaceous plant of southern Europe, Plum- 
bago Europoea. 2. By extension, any plant of 
the genus Plumbago, of the order Plumbaginece. 
Cape leadwort, P\ Capensis, a cultivated species from 
South Africa, with somewhat climbing, angled stems, and 
large pale- or lead-blue corollas. Ceylon or white-flow- 
ered leadwort, a shrubby East Indian species, P. Zey- 
lanica. Leadwort family, the Plumbaginaceai. 
'paKtfai f, pitiiiuticiy compound leal or norse-cne 
Vippocastanutn) ; h, pinnately trifoliate leaf of fjt 
of water. Seelead'^,2. The hand-lead line is marked 
at one fathom with a toggle, at 2 and 12 fathoms with two 
strips of leather, at 3 and 13 with three strips, at 5 and 15 
with a white rag, at 7 and 17 with a red rag, at 10 with a piece 
of leather with one hole in it, and at 20 with a piece of lea- 
ther having two holes. Coasting-lines and deep-sea lines 
are marked alike : namely, at 10 fathoms with a bit of line 
glaze given to some wares after burning. 
leadmant (led'man), n. [< lead 1 + man. Cf. 
lodeman.'] One who leads in anything, as in a 
dance. 
Such a light and mettled dance 
Saw you never. 
And \>yleadmen for the nonce, 
That turn round like grindle stones. B. Joneon. 
lead-mill (led'mil), . In gem-cutting, a flat 
wheel of lead charged with emery and water, 
which is used in grinding all gems except those 
below 8.5 in hardness. 
lead-mule (led'mul), n. A mule that goes in 
the lead, as of a mule-train. 
Our driver had named the lead-mides Bettie and Jane. 
E. B. Ouster, Boots and Saddles, p. 66. 
lead-nail (led'nal), n. 1. A small, round-head- 
ed copper-alloy nail, used for fastening sheet- 
lead on roofs. 2. Naut., a scupper-nail, 
means for the capture and maceration of insects, as in sun- 
dew and Venus's fly-trap, or into organs for climbing, as in 
the pea-vine ; and in many other ways leaves depart from 
the typical description above given. 
Robyn was in mery Scherwode 
As lizt as lef on lynde. 
Robin Hood and the Monk (Child's Ballads, V. 14). 
Languid leaves whereon the autumn blows 
The dead red raiment of the last year's rose. 
Suinburne, Two Dreams. 
2. Anything resembling a leaf, as in being flat 
and relatively broad, or in being a flexible or 
movable attachment or addition to something 
it. Lead-line drawing, in stained-glass work, same as leaf (lef), n. ; pi. leaves (levz). [< ME. leef, lef e ,J Se ; (?> A single thickness of paper in a book or folded 
ait-hne draimng (which see, under drawing). CT,] r,;,,1 ( AS If iff Cnl if fin *eet; hence, with reference to the words written or 
ead-lllSter fled'lus*t,ArV ,. 0*1,1 nfWJ. , l oor | /fl\ ^ pI Ao , f?i'^ 5 . * $* <ea i) P^ted upon it, the part of a book contained in one of 
such leaves. 
This is a lef of vre bileeue as lettret men vs techeth. 
Piers Plowman (A), viii. 162. 
Had she loked that other half and the lef torned, 
She shulde haue founden fele wordis folwyng therafter. 
Piers Plowman (B), iii. 338. 
I turn 
The leaf to read them. 
Shall., Macbeth, i. 3. 152. 
(5) A separately movable division of a folding or sliding 
door, fire-screen, table, hinge, etc. 
To Sir Philip Warwick's, to dinner, where abundance of 
company come in unexpectedly ; and here I saw one pretty 
piece of household stuff, as the company increaseth, to put 
a larger leaf upon an ovall table. Pepys, Diary, II. 238. 
The entrance to the park lay through an old-fashioned 
gateway in the outer wall, the door of which was formed 
of two huge oaken leaves, thickly studded with nails. 
Scott, Kenilworth, iii. 
(c) A very thin sheet of hammered metal ; foil : as, gold-leaf. 
(d) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer ; es- 
pecially, the fat about the kidneys of a pig (compare 
knottedonce, at 20 with aline having two knots, etc., each leadyt (led'i), a. [Early mod. E. ledy; < lead% 
fatTkm^tiwtSaomaia^^l'lil^ 01 ^ 6 ^^' + '^ Pertaining to or resembling lead in 
bit of white, and at sooTbit'o? blue bunting." ' ** ' an y of its properties. 
2. A heavy leaded or weighted line attached to Hif > ruddy lippes [were] wan, & his eyen ledy and hol- 
the bottom of a net, as a seine, and used to sink owe ' sir T - Et vot, The Governour, ii. 12. 
11 
loof= MLG. lof = OHG. loub, 
loup, MHG. loup, G. laub = 
Icel. lauf= Sw. lof '= Dan. lov 
= Goth, laufs, a leaf. Cf . Lith. 
lapas = Russ. lepeste, a leaf, 
Gr. AfTrof, AeTTYf, a scale (see 
lepis). For the L. and Gr. words 
for ' leaf,' see foil 1 . Hence ult. 
lobby, lodge; in comp. ME. lef- 
sel.~\ 1. An expanded, usual- 
ly green, organ of a plant, of 
transient duration, produced 
laterally from a stem or branch, 
and, with others, arranged 
upon the stem in a definite and 
j af sho f f "' a" symmetrical order, i,, the most 
blade'. s pX" f; pftio t !e'; complete sense, a leaf consists of a 
and .y 5, the two stip- blade or lamina, the broad, flat por- 
"les- tiou ; a footstalk, leafstalk, or petiole, 
