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A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.

The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color.

ls of a white, yellow, or grayish color and adamantine luster. It is a chlorocarbonate of lead.

or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. Phosphatic diathesis (Med.), a habit of body which leads to the undue excretion of phosphates with the urine.

An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.

nt or temporary habitation; to encamp. "Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead." Gen. xxxi. 25.

Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law. [Obs.] Clayton.

A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit. Burrill.

A sulphide of lead and antimony, of a blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster.

A field of battle. [Obs.] Arbuthnot. Lead forth my soldiers to the plain. Shak.

That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology. "Necessity, the tyrant's plea." Milton. No plea must serve; 't is cruelty to spare. Denham.

imp. & p. p. of Plead [Colloq.] Spenser.

To plead. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below. Plumb bob. See Bob, 4. -- Plumb joint, in sheet-metal work, a lap joint, fastened by solder. -- Plumb level. See under Level. -- Plumb line. (…

Leadwork [R.]

A crystalline substance said to be found in the root of a certain plant of the Leadwort (Plumbago) family.

A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.

Consisting of, or resembling, lead. J. Ellis.

One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.

A place where plumbing is carried on; lead works.