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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. The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead t…

ble note. -- Leading question, a question so framed as to guide the person questioned in making his reply. -- Leading strings, strings by which children are supported when beginning to walk. -- To be in leading strings, to be in a state of infancy or dependence, or under the guidance of others. -- Leading wheel, a…

t speak leasing. Ps. v. 6. Blessed be the lips that such a leasing told. Fairfax. Leasing making (Scots Law), the uttering of lies or libels upon the personal character of the sovereign, his court, or his family. Bp. Burnet.

The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven.

The act of making legal.

Of or pertaining to making laws. Practically, in many cases, authority or legific competence has begun in bare power. J. Grote.

Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body. The supreme legislative power of England was lodged in the king and great council, or what was afterwards called the Parliament. Hume.

The act of making legitimate. The coining or legitimation of money. East.

ap. See Paper. -- Letter punch, a steel punch with a letter engraved on the end, used in making the matrices for type. -- Letters of administration (Law), the instrument by which an administrator or administratrix is authorized to administer the goods and estate of a deceased person. -- Letter of attorney, Letter of…

The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting.

The act or operation of making level.

Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light. Paley.

The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.

The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers. [R.] Ball lightning, a rare form of lightning sometimes seen as a globe of fire moving from the clouds to the earth. -- Chain lightning, lightning in angular, zigzag, or forked flashes. -- Heat lightning,…

thern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.

The act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining.

The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.

The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.

d moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.

The art or process of making a kind of hard, stereotypeplate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or other matter, a composition of gum shell-lac and sand of a fine quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state.