Meaning

1. cause, reason
2. lead (strap or rope connected to a bridle on which a horse is led)
3. (obsolete) leading (act of leading)
4. (obsolete) logic, sense, reasoning
5. (obsolete) argument, reasoning
6. (obsolete) strips that are nailed in a shaft's compartments on which boxes slide when they are pulled out so that they do not interfere with the shaft lining
7. consultation
8. model (example that people follow)
9. origin, source; beginning
10. course of events
11. premise (basis of inference)
12. topic (subject of discussion)
13. proceedings; case
14. success
15. civil horses (horses prepared in cities so that a representative of the authorities making a longer journey could replace tired horses with rested ones)
16. civic duty of providing a ruler or his representatives with means of transport