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In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

Having, or leading, two ways. Bivious theorems and Janus-faced doctrines. Sir T. Browne.

The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.

To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray.

of teaching law in which the instruction is primarily a historical and inductive study of leading or selected cases, with or without the use of textbooks for reference and collateral reading.

f or around the chancel. -- Chancel arch (Arch.), the arch which spans the main opening, leading to the chancel -- Chancel casement, the principal window in a chancel. Tennyson. -- Chancel table, the communion table.

A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

A leading about; circumlocution. [R.] Hooker.

single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.

A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within. [Eng.] Halliwell

To commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation. His eye commends the leading to his hand. Shak. Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. Luke xxiii. 46.

end to, or descend from, the quarter-deck. Totten. -- Companion way (Naut.), a staircase leading to the cabin. -- Knights companions, in certain honorary orders, the members of the lowest grades as distinguished from knights commanders, knights grand cross, and the like.

The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace," etc.

ng to a close or termination; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision. Secret reasons . . . equally conclusive for us as they were for them. Rogers. Conclusive evidence (Law), that of which, from its nature, the law allows no contradiction or explan…

The act of leading or guiding. Sir W. Raleigh.

fession may be explained or rebutted. Wharton. Confession and avoidance (Law), a mode of pleading in which the party confesses the facts as stated by his adversary, but alleges some new matter by way of avoiding the legal effect claimed for them. Mozley & W. Confession of faith, a formulary containing the articles of f…

The leading British funded government security.

A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles. [Obs.] Little children when they learn to go By painful mothers daded to and fro. Drayton.