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The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.

A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. South.

A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt.

le for bait. Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow, Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow. Lauson.

The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.

Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. Chaucer. -- Body snatcher, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist. -- Body snatching (Law), the unauthorized removal…

of variable composition, containing usually silica, lime, and potash, rarely soda, but no lead. It is often remarkable for beauty of color.

metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.

n crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

anvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.

e applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes. Brande & C.

To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.

To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide. It seems so preposterous a thing . . . that they do not easily bring themselves to it. Locke. The nature of the things . . . would not suffer him to think otherwise, how, or whensoever, he is brought to reflect on them. Locke.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray.

A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.

A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.

private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose. No by-views of his own shall mislead him. Atterbury.

mith. The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws. Hawthorne.