Definition of Lead on

1. Verb. Entice or induce especially when unwise or mistaken.

Generic synonyms: Entice, Lure, Tempt

2. Verb. Be false to; be dishonest with.

Definition of Lead on

1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) to mislead, to try to make someone believe a lie. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) to encourage with the illusion of a romantic relationship. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lead On

lead encephalitis
lead encephalopathy
lead fiddle
lead gout
lead guitar
lead guitars
lead hopping
lead hydride
lead hydroxide stain
lead line
lead monoxide
lead neuropathy
lead nowhere
lead off
lead on (current term)
lead ore
lead out
lead oxide
lead palsy
lead paralysis
lead pencil
lead plant
lead poisoning
lead radioisotope
lead sheet
lead shot
lead single
lead someone down the garden path
lead stomatitis

Literary usage of Lead on

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"When the battery is charged, which means that as much as is possible of peroxide on one surface and metallic lead on the other is deposited, the charging ..."

2. The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"In Rhodes they put shavings in jars, pour vinegar over them, and lay pieces of lead on the shavings; then they cover the jars with lids to prevent ..."

3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"... according to the given composition of lithopone, 70% barium sulphate and 30% zinc sulphide. Lead is reported as Basic Carbonate of lead on the formula ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1855)
"... the author saw reason to suspect that the acids employed by him might contain lead. On testing these, which were the purest to be purchased from the ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... of spongy lead on the other. It follows that the duration of the successive charging currents also increases. At the beginning, a few minutes suffice; ..."

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