Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LEAD'ING
LEAD'ING, ppr.
- Guiding; conducting; preceding; drawing; alluring; passing life.
- adj. Chief; principal; capital; most influential; as, a leading motive; a leading man in a party.
- Showing the way by going fast. He left his mother a countess by patent, which was a new leading example. – Wotton.
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