ppl. a. Also 3 i-leaded. [f. LEAD v.2 + -ED1.] In senses of the vb. a. Covered, lined, loaded or weighted with lead.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 418. Ne beate ou … mid schurge i-leðered ne i-leaded.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. xxvi. (1495), 619. Smyten downe wyth leded arowes.
1538. Leland, Itin., V. 39. The Chirch of S. Oswalde is a very faire leddid Chirch.
1625. Bacon, Ess., Building (end). Tarrasses, Leaded aloft, and fairely garnished.
1726. Cavallier, Mem., I. 108. I perceived by chance in a Dyer’s House great Leaded Kettles, of above seven hundred Quintals weight.
1862. G. G. Scott, Rep., in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), II. 328. I have introduced a timber leaded flèche as a belfry.
1887. Rider Haggard, Jess, 3. He saw the ostrich’s thick leg fly high into the air and then sweep down like a leaded bludgeon!
1891. T. Hardy, Tess (1900), 124/2. The marble monuments and leaded skeletons at Kingsbere.
fig. 1889. Skrine, Mem. E. Thring, 129. Who forgets the leaded accents with which he would say, ‘that’s fatal!’
b. Of panes of glass: Fitted into leaden cames.
1855. Ogilvie, Suppl., Leaded,… set in lead; as leaded windows.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 229. The drone Of the great organ shook the leaded panes.
1887. Hissey, Holiday on Road, 27. Gothic porches, leaded latticed windows.
c. Printing. Having the lines separated by leads.
1864. in Craig, Suppl.
1871. Amer. Encycl. Printing (ed. Ringwalt), Leaded Matter, matter with leads between the lines.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 10 Aug., 1/1. The leaded articles penned in Fleet-street.
1893. R. Kipling, Many Invent., 166. I wrote three-quarters of a leaded bourgeois column.
