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Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leadingmotive; a leading man; a leading example.-- Lead"ing*ly, adv. Leading case (Law), a reported decision whichhas come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved.Abbott.-- Leading motive Etym: [a translation of G. leitmotif] (Mus.), aguiding theme; in the modern music drama of Wagner, a marked melodicphrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance ofa certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the courseof the play; a sort of musical label.-- Leading note (Mus.), the seventh note or tone in the ascendingmajor scale; the sensible note.-- Leading question, a question so framed as to guide the personquestioned in making his reply.-- Leading strings, strings by which children are supported whenbeginning to walk.-- To be in leading strings, to be in a state of infancy ordependence, or under the guidance of others.-- Leading wheel, a wheel situated before the driving wheels of alocomotive engine.