A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
One having authority to direct.
A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs
Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
Any person who leads or directs.
The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
Someone or something that leads or conducts.
One who goes first.
A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
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.
s around the queen (sense 6) of the hive, marked with a pink dot]] A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
A queen apple.
An adult female cat capable of breeding.
A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
A queen scallop.
An excellent woman.
A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
A type of large roofing slate.
The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
A female monarch.
To provide with a new queen bee.
To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
To promote a pawn to a queen.
To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
To be the queen bee of a colony.