one who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.-one who goes first.-one having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.-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.-a block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.-the principal wheel in any kind of machinery.-a horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.-a pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.-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.-a branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.-the first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.-a type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.-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.