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Leader   /lˈidər/   Listen
noun
Leader  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. Especially:
(a)
One who goes first.
(b)
One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
(c)
(Mus.) 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.
(d)
(Naut.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
(e)
(Mach.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. (Obs. or R.)
(f)
A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses. "He forgot to pull in his leaders, and they gallop away with him at times."
(g)
A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
(h)
(Fishing) 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.
(i)
(Mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
2.
The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
3.
(Print.)
(a)
A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
(b)
pl. A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
Synonyms: chief; chieftain; commander. See Chief.





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"Leader" Quotes from Famous Books



... given him the ability to judge and gauge distance from sound. At the proper instant he pounced, his hands clamping around a body, and a second body crashed into the leader. They went ...
— Second Sight • Basil Eugene Wells
... wife began flapping her veil and howling; whereupon, without waiting to look, the thieves in a terrible fright set off at a run, dragging their leader with them; and the barber's wife, coming down from the tree, put her bed on her head, and walked ...
— Tales Of The Punjab • Flora Annie Steel
... political disturbances in which they had become involved, and some on account of their crimes. Rollo's impetuous, ardent, and self-confident character inspired them with new energy and zeal. They gathered around him as their leader. Finding his strength thus increasing, he formed a scheme of concentrating all the force that he could command, so as to organize a grand expedition to proceed to the southward, and endeavor to find some pleasant country which they could seize and settle upon, and make their own. The ...
— William the Conqueror - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... venture to describe him as one of the most remarkable Irishmen of his time, in spite of the fact that the Annals pass him by in almost complete silence. He was at any rate a staunch supporter, or, as we should rather say, the leader of the Reformation movement in its earliest course. In a letter written in 1107 Anselm exhorted him, in virtue of their mutual friendship, to make good use of his episcopal office by correcting that which was amiss, and planting and sowing good customs, calling to aid him ...
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh • H. J. Lawlor
... being severe. I danced with him, of course, and he kept telling me what a wonderful future Mr. Drake had, and how the Promised Land was before him, and even hinting that it wouldn't be a bad thing to be Mrs. Joshua. Fancy Glory making a tremendous match with a leader of society! And if I hadn't gone to that hospital ball no doubt the history of the nineteenth century would have ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine


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