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- English Word Leached Definition of Leach
- English Word Leaching Definition of Leach
- English Word Leachy Definition Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.
- English Word Lead Definition One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.
- English Word Lead Definition An article made of lead or an alloy of lead
- English Word Lead Definition A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.
- English Word Lead Definition A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- English Word Lead Definition Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- English Word Lead Definition A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils.
- English Word Lead Definition To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
- English Word Lead Definition To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.
- English Word Lead Definition To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man.
- English Word Lead Definition To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil.
- English Word Lead Definition To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party.
- English Word Lead Definition To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages.
- English Word Lead Definition To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause.
- English Word Lead Definition To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- English Word Lead Definition To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led.
- English Word Lead Definition To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t.
- English Word Lead Definition To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices.
- English Word Lead Definition The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.
- English Word Lead Definition precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half a second.
- English Word Lead Definition The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.
- English Word Lead Definition An open way in an ice field.
- English Word Lead Definition A lode.
- English Word Lead Definition The course of a rope from end to end.
- English Word Lead Definition The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- English Word Lead Definition the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- English Word Lead Definition The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- English Word Leaded Definition of Lead