'Leadingly' definitions:
Definition of 'Leadingly'
From: GCIDE
- Leading \Lead"ing\, a. Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example. -- {Lead"ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
- Leading case (Law), a reported decision which has come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved. --Abbott.
- Leading motive [a translation of G. leitmotif] (Mus.), a guiding theme; in the musical drama of Wagner, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label. Also called leitmotif or leitmotiv.
- Leading note (Mus.), the seventh note or tone in the ascending major scale; the sensible note.
- Leading question, a question so framed as to guide the person questioned in making his reply.
- Leading strings, strings by which children are supported when beginning to walk.
- To be in leading strings, to be in a state of infancy or dependence, or under the guidance of others.
- Leading wheel, a wheel situated before the driving wheels of a locomotive engine. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Leadingly'
- Lead,
- Leaded,
- Leading,
- To lead off,
- To lead out,
- in the lead,
- lead off,
- lead on,
- lead to,
- lead up,
- leading off,
- Black lead,
- Coasting lead,
- Corroding lead,
- Hand lead,
- Horn lead,
- Kremnitz lead,
- Krems lead,
- Lead Hill,
- Lead angle,
- Lead arming,
- Lead colic,
- Lead color,
- Lead glance,
- Lead line,
- Lead mill,
- Lead ocher,
- Lead pencil,
- Lead plant,
- Lead protoxide,
- Lead screw,
- Lead soap,
- Lead tree,
- Lead, SD,
- Leading case,
- Leading edge,
- Leading motive,
- Leading note,
- Leading question,
- Leading strings,
- Leading wheel,
- Milled lead,
- Mock lead,
- Pencil lead,
- Pot lead,
- Red lead,
- Sounding lead,
- Sponge lead,
- Spongy lead,
- Sugar of lead,
- To arm the lead,
- To be in leading strings,
- To cast the lead,
- To heave the lead,
- To lead astray,
- To lead by the nose,
- To lead captive,
- To lead the way,
- To return a lead,
- To strike a lead,
- White lead,
- antimonial lead,
- clip lead,
- hard lead,
- jumper lead,
- lead acetate,
- lead arsenate,
- lead astray,
- lead bank,
- lead by the nose,
- lead carbonate,
- lead chromate,
- lead glass,
- lead item,
- lead of the ignition,
- lead ore,
- lead orthoplumbate,
- lead oxide,
- lead plaster,
- lead poisoning,
- lead sheet,
- lead story,
- lead tetraethyl,
- lead tetroxide,
- lead the way,
- lead time,
- lead-in,
- leaded bronze,
- leaded gasoline,
- leaded petrol,
- leading astray,
- leading indicator,
- leading lady,
- leading light,
- leading man,
- leading rein,
- leading tone,
- negative lead,
- pig lead,
- tetraethyl lead,
- Green lead ore,
- Lead Hill, AR,
- Red lead ore,
- South Lead Hill,
- To lead one a dance,
- Yellow lead ore,
- black-lead,
- lead oxide yellow,
- lead-colored,
- lead-coloured,
- lead-free,
- white lead ore,
- Deep-sea lead,
- Red-lead ore,
- South Lead Hill, AR,
- lead-acid accumulator,
- lead-acid battery,
- red-lead putty