Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LEAD, v.i.

1. To go before and show the way. I will lead on softly. Gen. xxxiii.
2. To conduct, as a chief or commander. Let the troops follow, where their general leads.
3. To draw; to have a tendency to. Gaming leads to other vices.
4. To exercise dominion. – Spenser. To lead off or out, to go first; to begin. – Cumberland.