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noun

Leader n.

One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. Especially:

(a)

One who goes first.

(b)

One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.

(c)

(Mus.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.

(d)

(Naut.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.

(e)

(Mach.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. (Obs. or R.)

(f)

A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses. "He forgot to pull in his leaders, and they gallop away with him at times."

(g)

A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.

(h)

(Fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.

(i)

(Mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.

The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.

(Print.)

(a)

A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.

(b)

pl. A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.

Synonyms: chief; chieftain; commander. See Chief.

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"Leader" Quotes from Famous Books

... shall arise to march them in close columns, if they can but trust him; in perfect subordination, a model even for Tories while they keep shoulder to shoulder. And to behold such a disciplined body is intoxicating to the eye of a leader accustomed to count ahead upon vapourish abstractions, and therefore predisposed to add a couple of noughts to every tangible figure in his grasp. Thus will a realized fifty become five hundred or five thousand to him: the very sense of number is instinct with multiplication in his mind; ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... of date. For all others we have to say—'having served his generation,' or a generation or two more, 'according to the will of God, he fell on sleep.' But Christ knows no corruption, and is for ever more the Leader, and the Companion, and the Friend, of ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... and goes. If I lodge people without passports, I lodge great folks also; I have at this moment two traveling clerks, a post-office carrier, the leader of the orchestra of the Cafe des Aveugles, and an independent lady, all very genteel people. They save the reputation of the house, if the police wish to examine too closely; they are not lodgers by night, not they; they are lodgers in the full ...

— The Mysteries of Paris V2 • Eugene Sue

... been sometimes called "music boards," from the fact of their devices being sung off by the initiated of the Meda Society. This constituted the object of the explanations, which, in accordance with the positive requisitions of the leader of the society and three other initiates, was ...

— The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa • Walter James Hoffman

... built around the head of each canon, connecting the towns. When the snow got to be three or four feet deep the roads must be broken out and communication opened, and the boys used to turn out en masse and each one would take his turn in leading the army of road breakers. When the leader got tired out some one would take his place, for it was terrible hard work to wade through snow up to one's hips, and the progress very slow. But the boys went at it as if they were going to a picnic, and a sort of picnic it was when they reached the next town, ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

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