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One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.

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  1. n. One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
  2. n. One who goes first.
  3. n. One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
  4. n. A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.
  5. n. A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
  6. n. The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.
  7. n. A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.
  8. n. A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
  9. n. A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.
  10. n. A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
  11. n. The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
  12. n. A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
  13. n. a row of word/dots">dots, word/periods">periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.