LE'ADING, participle present tense 1. Guiding; conducting; preceding; drawing; alluring; passing life. 2. adjective Chief; principal; capital; most influential; as a leading motive; a leading man in a party. 3. showing the way by going first. He left his mother a countess by patent, which was a new leading example. LE'ADING, noun Guidance; the act of conducting; direction.
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