Leading-strings

led'ing-strmgz, n.pl., strings used to lead children when beginning to walk. Lead-p6HCil, led'-pen's ii, n a pencil or instrument for drawing, . made of blacklead. Leaf, Jef, u one of the thin, flat parts of plants anything beaten thin like a leaf two pages of a book one side of a window-shutter, . pi. Leaves, levz —v to shoot out or produce leaves;—pr.p leafing; pa p. leafed'. [A.S. Ger. laub Dut. loo/, a leaf.) Leafage, lefij, u leaves collectively abundance of leaves season of leaves or leafing.