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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Leader \Lead"er\, n.
1. 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.] --G. Francis.
(f) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the
forward pair of horses.
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He forgot to pull in his leaders, and they
gallop away with him at times. --Hare.
(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.
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2. The first, or the principal, editorial article in a
newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
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3. (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.
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Syn: chief; chieftain; commander. See Chief.
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WordNet Leader
n 1: a person who rules or guides or inspires others [ant: follower]
2: a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to
draw customers [syn: drawing card, loss leader]

Moby Dictionary
A per se , AG , DA , KC , Kapellmeister , Mahdi , QC , SSC , US attorney ,
ace , analysis , ancestor , announcer , antecedent , article ,
article of commerce , article of merchandise , attorney general ,
avant-garde , band leader , band major , bandmaster , bell cow ,
bell mare , bellwether , bidet , big cheese , big wheel , big-timer ,
bigwig , bone of contention , born leader , boss , buccinator ,
bushwhacker , captain , carriage horse , cart horse , catechism ,
cavalry horse , chairman , champion , charismatic leader , chief ,
chieftain , choirmaster , choragus , civilian , cock , commandant ,
commander , comment , commentary , commentation , commodity , conductor ,
corporation lawyer , coryphaeus , court-appointed lawyer ,
criminal lawyer , critical review , criticism , critique ,
cross-interrogatory , cross-question , dean , debating point ,
defense counsel , demand , dignitary , director , district attorney ,
doyen , doyenne , draft horse , dray horse , driving horse , drug ,
drum major , duce , editorial , eminence , explorer , feature , feeler ,
file leader , fill horse , filler , forebear , foregoer , foreman ,
forerunner , front runner , frontiersman , fugleman , gaffer , general ,
genius , gigster , gloss , groundbreaker , guide , hack , hackney ,
harbinger , head , headman , herald , hierarch , high priest , higher-up ,
honcho , hunter , important person , innovator , inquiry ,
inspired leader , interrogation , interrogative , interrogatory ,
issue , item , jument , junior counsel , kingfish , kingpin , laureate ,
law agent , lead , lead item , lead runner , leader of men ,
leading article , leading card , leading question , lion , loss leader ,
luminary , main feature , manager , master , messenger , messiah ,
moot point , mount , mouthpiece , nonpareil , notability , notice ,
number one , orchestra leader , pacemaker , pacesetter , pack horse ,
palfrey , paragon , pathfinder , personage , pilot , pioneer ,
plow horse , point , point at issue , point in question , pole horse ,
polo pony , post-horse , precedent , precentor , precursor ,
predecessor , principal , private attorney , problem , prodigy ,
product , prosecuting attorney , prosecutor , public prosecutor ,
publicist , query , question , question at issue , question mark ,
quodlibet , rector , remark , remount , report , review , rider ,
riding horse , ringleader , road horse , roadster , rouncy , ruler ,
running commentary , saddle horse , saddler , scout , seconds , senior ,
shaft horse , silk , silk gown , solicitor general , special ,
special pleader , stalking-horse , standard article , standard-bearer ,
staple , staple item , star , stormy petrel , straw boss , stuff gown ,
stuff-gownsman , sumpter , sumpter horse , superintendent , superior ,
superman , superstar , symphonic conductor , the greatest , the most ,
thill horse , thiller , top dog , topic , torchbearer , trailblazer ,
trailbreaker , trial balloon , vanguard , vaunt-courier , vendible ,
vexed question , virtuoso , voortrekker , ware , wheeler , wheelhorse ,
workhorse , write-up

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