LAZARETTO, the same as lazaret.
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a military order instituted at Jerusalem by the Christians of the west, when they were masters of the Holy-Land, who received pilgrims under their care and guarded them on the roads from the insults of the Mahomedans. This order was instituted in the year 1119, and confirmed by a bull of Pope Alexander IV. in 1255, who gave it the rule of St. Augustine.
LEAD, a metal well known. It is employed for various mechanical uses; as in thin sheets for covering buildings, for pipes, pumps, shot, bullets, windows, for securing iron bars in hard stones, for sundry kinds of large vessels for evaporation, and many other purposes.
LEADER. See [Commander].
File Leader, the front man of a battalion or company, standing two or three deep.
LEADING-COLUMN, the first column that advances from the right, left, or centre of an army or battalion.
Leading-File, the first men of a battalion or company, that march from right, left, or centre, in files.
Flank Leading-File, the first man on the right, and the last man on the left of a battalion, company, or section, are so called.
Centre Leading-File, the last man of the right centre company, division, or section; and the first man of the left centre company, division, or section, are so called, when the line files from the centre to the front or rear. At close order, the colors stand between them.