lead

1 - A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).

2 - A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.

3 - A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.

1 - To cover, fill, or affect with lead

2 - To place leads between the lines of.

1 - The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course

2 - Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.

3 - An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.

1 - (heading) To guide or conduct.

2 - To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.

3 - (heading) To begin, to be ahead.

1 - Foremost.

2 - Main, principal