LEADING

verb

1. To cover, fill, or affect with lead
2. To place leads between the lines of.

verb

1. (heading) To guide or conduct.
2. To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
3. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.

adjective

1. Providing guidance or direction.
2. Ranking first.
3. Occurring in advance; preceding.