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• Lead

  [leed] /lid/ verb (used with object), led, leading. 1. to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike. 2. to conduct by holding and guiding: to lead a horse by a rope. 3. to influence or induce; cause: Subsequent events led him to reconsider […]

• Lead-acetate

  [led] /lɛd/ noun, Chemistry. 1. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, Pb(C 2 H 3 O 2) 2 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles and as a drier in paints and varnishes. /lɛd/ noun 1. a white crystalline toxic solid used in dyeing cotton and in making varnishes […]

• Lead a double life

  Live as if one were two persons, usually one good and one bad. For example, They learned that his frequent travels were actually fictitious, and he was leading a double life, with a second home on the other side of town. This phrase is frequently used for a married person who establishes a second household […]

• Lead-arsenate

  [led] /lɛd/ noun, Chemistry. 1. a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, highly poisonous powder, PbHAsO 4 , used as an insecticide. /lɛd/ noun 1. a white insoluble toxic crystalline powder used as an insecticide and fungicide. Formula: Pb3(AsO4)2

• Lazing

  [leyz] /leɪz/ verb (used without object), lazed, lazing. 1. to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend. verb (used with object), lazed, lazing. 2. to pass (time, life, etc.) lazily (usually followed by away). noun 3. a period of ease or indolence: […]

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