Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dux"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dux \Dux\, n. [L., leader.] (Mus.)
The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the
answer being called the comes, or companion.
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