Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LEAD'ED, a. leded.

Separated by thin plates of lead, as lines in printing.

LEAD'EN, a. led'n. [from lead.]

1. Made of lead; as, a leaden, ball.
2. Heavy; indisposed to action. Shak.
3. Heavy; Shak.

LEAD-EN-HEART'ED, a.

Stupid; destitute of feeling. Thomson.

LEAD-EN-HEEL'ED, a.

Moving slowly. Ford.

LEAD-EN-STEP'PING, a.

Moving slowly. Milton:.

LEAD'ER, n.

1. One that leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
2. A chief; a commander; a captain.
3. One who goes first.
4. The chief of a party or faction; as, the leader of the whigs or of the turies; a leader of the Jacobins.
5. A performer who leads a band or choir in music.

LEAD'ING, n.

Guidance; the act of conducting; direction. Shak. Spenser.

LEAD'ING, ppr.

1. Guiding; conducting; preceding; drawing; alluring; passing life.
2. adj. Chief; principal; capital; most influential; as, a leading motive; a leading man in a party.
3. Showing the way by going fast. He left his mother a countess by patent, which was a new leading example. Watten.

LEAD-ING-LY, adv.

By leading.

LEAD'ING-STRINGS, n.

Strings by which children are supported when beginning to walk. Dryden. To be in leading-strings, to be in a state of infancy or dependence, or in pupilage under the guidance of others.

LEAD'-MAN, n.

One who begins or leads a dance. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

LEAD-SHOT, n.

Shot made of lead.

LEAD'WORT, n. led'wort.

The popular English name of some species of Plumbago, a genus of plants.

LEAD-Y, a. led'dy.

Of the color of lead.

LEAF, n. plur.

1. Leaves. [Sax. leafe; D. loof; G. laui Sw. lof; Dan. Goth. lauf]
2. In botany, leaves are organs which usually shoot from the sides of the stems and branches, but sometimes from the root; sometimes they are sessile; more generally supported by petioles. They are of various forms, flat, extended, linear, cylindric, &c.
3. A part of a book containing two pages.
4. The side of u double door. 1 Kings vi.
5. Something resembling a leaf in thinness and extension; very thin plate; as, gold leaf.
6. The movable side of a table.

LEAF, v.i.

To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves. The trees leaf in May.

LEAF'AGE, n.

Abundance of leaves.

LEAF'-BUD, n.

A young plant produced without the agency of the stamens and pistils, and inclosed in rudimentary leaves, called scales. Lindley.

LEAF'-CROWN-ED, a.

Crowned with leaves or foliage. Moon.

LEAF'ED, a.

Having leaves.

LEAF'I-NESS, n.

A state of being full of leaves.

LEAF-ING, n.

The process of unfolding leaves.

LEAF'LESS, a.

Destitute of leaves; as, a leafless tree. Pope.

LEAF'LESS-NESS, n.

Destitution of leaves.

LEAF'LET, n.

1. A little leaf.
2. In botany, one of the divisions of a compound leaf; folios.