To direct, guide, show the way to (unto, till) a place or person. Obsolete.

Of a way, road, etc.: To serve as a passage for, conduct (a person) to or into a place. Hence absol. or intransitive, to have a specified goal or…

to lead the way: †(a) with personal object, to guide, show the way to (obsolete); (b) in later use (influenced by sense 13), to go in advance of…

absol. To act as or after the manner of an usher.