leading

The act of conducting or guiding; conduct; leadership; command.

Ability to lead; commanding quality or capacity.

A directing influence or guidance; especially, a spiritual indication of the proper course of action in any case: a term used by the Friends or Quakers.

Lead-work; the leads, as of a house; articles of lead collectively.

Milit., the clogging of the grooves of a rifle by lead from the bullets.