Fair-leader (n.) A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope. |
Leader (n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts |
Leader (n.) One who goes first. |
Leader (n.) One having authority to direct |
Leader (n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music |
Leader (n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places. |
Leader (n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. |
Leader (n.) A horse placed in advance of others |
Leader (n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground |
Leader (n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. |
Leader (n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one. |
Leader (n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper |
Leader (n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face. |
Leader (n.) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number. |
Orchestra (n.) The space in a theater between the stage and the audience |
Orchestra (n.) The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians. |
Orchestra (n.) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement. |
Orchestra (n.) Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos. |
Orchestra (n.) A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass |
Orchestra (n.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively |