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The act of deceiving or misleading. South.

The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. Pope.

h from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. Madison.

The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier.

To lay bare; to expose. The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey.

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. [Obs.] T. Burnet.

bject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive. Development theory (Biol.), the doctrine that animals and plants possess the power of passing by slow and successive stages from a lower to a higher state of organization, and that all the higher forms of…

A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means. What is direct to, what slides by, the question. Locke.

lts, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. Milton. Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. Bancroft.

That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.

ant of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes. A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. Prov. vi. 19. Peace to aris…

Tending or leading to dissociation.

A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.

One who draws pleadings or other writings.

A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor.

or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.

Used in entreaty; pleading. [R.] "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.

That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine. A straight, long entry to the temple led. Dryden.

Controversial. [Archaic] A specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic. Coleridge.