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m of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]

An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff. Decker.

Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical. " Thy tuneless serenade." Cowley. How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire! Goldsmith.

veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel. Tunnel head (Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which w…

Misdirected; misled; led astray. [R.]

and then down; from one state or position to another. See under Down, adv. Fortune . . . led him up and down. Chaucer.

or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of. Led like a victim, to my death I'll go. Dryden.

A wise man; a sage. [Obs.] See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odors sweet! Milton.

obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. J. Ledyard.