LEAD, one of the metals, of a white colour inclining to blue, the least ductile, the least elastic, and the least sonorous, of the whole, but possessing a considerable degree of specific gravity. See CHEMISTRY and MINERALOGY Index.

White Lead, or Ceruse. See CHEMISTRY Index.

Black Lead, or Plumbago, a species of mineral be-

longing to the class of Inflammables. See MINERALOGY Index.

Milled Lead. See CHEMISTRY Index.

Poison of Lead. See POISON.

Sheet Lead. See PLUMBERY.