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leading strings

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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Leading-stringsnoun

    Strings by which children, when they learn to walk, are held from falling.

    Etymology: lead and string.

    Sound may serve such, ere they to sense are grown,
    Like leading-strings, ’till they can walk alone. Dryden.

    Was he ever able to walk without leading-strings, or swim without bladders, without being discovered by his hobbling and his sinking? Jonathan Swift.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of leading strings in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of leading strings in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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