Lead

Morpheme

Lead

Type

free base

Denotation

soft, heavy, dense, and malleable metallic element

Etymology

Middle English led, leed; Old English lēad

Evidence

backlead, blacklead, blackleaded, blackleading, blackleads, decalead, delead, dilead, greylead, heptalead, hexalead, lead, leadamalgam, leaded, leaden, leadfield, leadfoot, leadfooted, leadfree, leadholder, leading, leadish, Leadite, leadless, leadlight, leadlike, leadplant, leadproof, leads, leadsman, Leadville, leadwood, leadwork, leadwort, leadzyme, nonalead, nonlead, octalead, organolead, pentalead, radiolead, relead, tetralead, translead, unlead, unleaded

See Also

Plumb, Molybd, Molybdene

Homographs

Lead