belwether

== English == === Noun === belwether Archaic form of bellwether (“the leading sheep of a flock”). 1591, Edmund Spenser, "Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubbard's Tale", line 294, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie: Thereto right well this Curdog...will serve, my sheepe to gather and drive to follow after their Belwether.