Word Meanings - ACCENTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
Related words: (words related to ACCENTOR)
- LEADING EDGE
same as Advancing edge, above. - SINGSTER
A songstress. Wyclif. - LEADED
Separated by leads, as the lines of a page. (more info) 1. Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows. - DIRECTORY
Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial. - DIRECTORSHIP
The condition or office of a director; directorate. - LEADMAN
One who leads a dance. B. Jonson. - LEADSMAN
The man who heaves the lead. Totten. - SINGSPIEL
A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment. - DIRECTORIAL
1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence - LEAD
One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. - LEADWORT
A genus of maritime herbs . P. Europæa has lead- colored spots on the leaves, and nearly lead-colored flowers. - DIRECTORATE
The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly. - LEADHILLITE
A mineral of a yellowish or greenish white color, consisting of the sulphate and carbonate of lead; -- so called from having been first found at Leadhills, Scotland. - LEADING
Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example. -- Lead"ing*ly, adv. Leading case , a reported decision which has come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved. Abbott. - DIRECTOR
A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. 2. One of a body - LEADERSHIP
The office of a leader. - LEADEN
1. Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball. 2. Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky. 3. Heavy; dull; sluggish. "Leaden slumber." Shak. - LEADY
Resembling lead. Sir T. Elyot. - SINGSONG
1. Bad singing or poetry. 2. A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song. - LEADER
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. A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one. 2. The first, or the principal, - POT LEAD
Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction. - COUNTERPLEAD
To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny. - PLEADINGS
The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some - RINGLEADER
1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of - PLEADINGLY
In a pleading manner. - GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance. - ENTERPLEAD
See INTERPLEAD - BLACK LEAD
Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite. - IMPLEAD
To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach. - PLEAD
To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of - PLEADER
One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader. (more info) 1. One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden. - FAIR-LEADER
A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope. - UPLEAD
To lead upward. - CLEADING
1. A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine. 2. The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc. - MISPLEAD
To err in pleading.