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Fig.: Leadership; management. An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust. Sterne.

socialism and programme of reform through revolution as advocated by the French political leader Jules Basile Guesde (pron. ged) (1845- ). -- Guesd"ist (#), n. & a.

d in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde.

). -- To go large. (Naut) See under Large. -- To go off. (a) To go away; to depart. The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you. Shak.

The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. "Their princes and heads." Robynson (More's Utopia). The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. Tillotson. Your head I him appoint. Milton.

One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. [R.]

Destitute of a chief or leader. Sir W. Raleigh.

Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates. Lieber.

A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The leader or commander of an army; also, a marshal. Blackstone.

A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried wiht it some special privileges. After the downfall of…

against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an in an interpleader. See Interpleader. [Written also enterplead.]

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.

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.]

or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.

Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader.

A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. [Political Cant]

An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules. [S. America]