leading

The act of conducting or guiding; conduct; leadership; command.

Ability to lead; commanding quality or capacity.

A directing influence or guidance; especially, a spiritual indication of the proper course of action in any case: a term used by the Friends or Quakers.

Lead-work; the leads, as of a house; articles of lead collectively.

Milit., the clogging of the grooves of a rifle by lead from the bullets.

Guiding; conducting; preceding; hence, serving as a precedent.

Attracting; drawing: as, a leading article among shopkeepers (that is, something offered as a special inducement to customers, for its attractiveness or its cheapness, or both).

Chief; principal; capital; most influential: as, a leading motive in action; a leading man in a party.

In naval architecture, said of the edge or end of a surface or blade, as a propellerblade, which is in advance when moving through water: opposed to following.

The act of guiding, directing, governing, or enticing; guidance.