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  • English Word Levant Definition Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
  • English Word Levant Definition The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
  • English Word Levant Definition A levanter (the wind so called).
  • English Word Levant Definition Eastern.
  • English Word Levant Definition To run away from one's debts; to decamp.
  • English Word Levanter Definition One who levants, or decamps.
  • English Word Levanter Definition A strong easterly wind peculiar to the Mediterranean.
  • English Word Levantine Definition Of or pertaining to the Levant.
  • English Word Levantine Definition A native or inhabitant of the Levant.
  • English Word Levantine Definition A stout twilled silk fabric, formerly made in the Levant.
  • English Word Levari facias Definition A writ of execution at common law.
  • English Word Levation Definition The act of raising; elevation; upward motion, as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
  • English Word Levator Definition A muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.
  • English Word Levator Definition A surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull.
  • English Word Leve Definition Dear. See Lief.
  • English Word Leve Definition Same as 3d & 4th Leave.
  • English Word Leve Definition To live.
  • English Word Leve Definition To believe.
  • English Word Leve Definition To grant; -- used esp. in exclamations or prayers followed by a dependent clause.
  • English Word Levee Definition The act of rising.
  • English Word Levee Definition A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.
  • English Word Levee Definition To attend the levee or levees of.
  • English Word Levee Definition An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
  • English Word Levee Definition To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.
  • English Word Levee en masse Definition See Levy in mass, under Levy, n.
  • English Word Leveful Definition Allowable; permissible; lawful.
  • English Word Level Definition A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere.
  • English Word Level Definition A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel to the horizon at that point; -- this is the apparent level at the given point.
  • English Word Level Definition An approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth; as, to climb from the level of the coast to the level of the plateau and then descend to the level of the valley or of the sea.
  • English Word Level Definition Hence, figuratively, a certain position, rank, standard, degree, quality, character, etc., conceived of as in one of several planes of different elevation.