Leader
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
(2): ( n.) One who goes first.
(3): ( n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
(4): ( n.) 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.
(5): ( n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
(6): ( n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.
(7): ( n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.
(8): ( n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
(9): ( n.) 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.
(10): ( n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
(11): ( n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
(12): ( n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
(13): ( n.) 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.
King James Dictionary [2]
LE'ADER, n.
1. One that leads or conducts a guide a conductor. 2. A chief a commander a captain. 3. One who goes first. 4. The chief of a party or faction as the leader of the whigs or of the tories a leader of the Jacobins. 5. a performer who leads a band or choir in music.
