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ate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem. Milton. Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight Against the irregular and wild Glendower. Shak. A flowery meadow through which a clear stream murmured in many irregular meanders. Jones.

Leading to, producing, or relating to, an issue; capable of being made an issue at law. Burrill.

In an issuable manner; by way of issue; as, to plead issuably.

In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned. Blount. Cowell. At issue, in controversy; disputed; opposing or contesting; hence,…

One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradæus, its leader in the sixth century.

The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants.

ivision. Jag bolt, a bolt with a nicked or barbed shank which resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.

y mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.

A chief; an earl; in English history, one of the leaders in the Danish and Norse invasions. Longfellow.

The chief or leader of a hand or body of persons; esp., in the native army of India, an officer of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army. [Written also jemadar, jamadar.]

An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight. Blackstone.

there are only two reasons that can justify you in not returning trumps to your partner's lead; i. e., first, sudden illness; secondly, having none. Pole.

o make it exactly fill a line, or of a cut so as to hold it in the right place; also, the leads, quads, etc., used for making such adjustment.

A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow. [Written also campylite.]

A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

An extensive scientific division distinguished by leading or ruling characteristics; a principal division; a department; as, the mineral kingdom. "The animal and vegetable kingdoms." Locke. Animal kingdom. See under Animal. -- Kingdom of God. (a) The universe. (b) That spiritual realm of which God is the acknowledged…

; especially, a boy servant. [Obs.] Wyclif. Chaucer. O murderous slumber, Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy That plays thee music Gentle knave, good night. Shak.

A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.

A variety of white lead. See Krems lead, under Lead, n.

of Lead, to guide Chaucer.