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  • 111Leading wheel — 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 …

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  • 112Leadingly — 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 …

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  • 113leitmotif — 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 …

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  • 114Leitmotif — Leit mo*tif , Leitmotiv Leit mo*tiv (l[imac]t m[ o]*t[ e]f ), n. [G., leading motive.] 1. (Mus.) a guiding theme; in Wagnerian opera, a marked melodic phrase or short musical passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person,… …

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  • 115leitmotiv — 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 …

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  • 116Leitmotiv — Leitmotif Leit mo*tif , Leitmotiv Leit mo*tiv (l[imac]t m[ o]*t[ e]f ), n. [G., leading motive.] 1. (Mus.) a guiding theme; in Wagnerian opera, a marked melodic phrase or short musical passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a… …

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  • 117Occultation — Oc cul*ta tion, n. [L. occultatio a hiding, fr. occultare, v. intens. of occulere: cf. F. occultation. See {Occult}.] 1. (Astron.) The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; applied… …

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  • 118throwback — hrow back, n. 1. the reappearance in an organism of characteristics of an earlier ancestral type; atavism. [PJC] 2. an organisms having characteristics of an earlier ancestral type. [PJC] [1913 Webster] …

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  • 119To be in leading strings — 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 …

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  • 120leitmotif — also leitmotiv noun Etymology: German Leitmotiv, from leiten to lead + Motiv motive Date: circa 1876 1. an associated melodic phrase or figure that accompanies the reappearance of an idea, person, or situation especially in a Wagnerian music… …

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