duxn.

a1832 W. Scott Mem. Early Years in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) I. i. 28 Our class contained some very excellent scholars. The first Dux was James Buchan, who retained his honoured place, almost without a day's interval, all the while we were at the High school.

1870 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) p. xxix ‘I'm second dux’..means in Scottish academical language second from the top of the class.

1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 213 (note) A gold medal [is given] to the dux of the [Aberdeen grammar] school.

1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 68 Dux, in fugues is the first voice or instrument that begins, and serves as a guide to the other parts, which are called comes, or followers.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Dux, in music, the name formerly given to the leading voice or instrument in a fugue.

1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 2 at Fugue.

1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 477/2 Dux, an early term for the first subject in a fugue—that which leads; the answer being the comes or companion.

1885 G. B. Shaw in Mag. Music Nov. 178/3 Gounod often gives us a few pretty bars in canon, or a theme, with a bold skip or two at the beginning, introduced and answered in the rococo ‘dux and comes’ style.

1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 135/1 The voice first entering with the melody in a canon is called Dux (‘leader’) or Antecedent.

1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. viii. 192 In Scotch schools very generally..Places are taken, tickets are given, and notices of the duxship are recorded.