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- English Word Lever Definition Rather.
- English Word Lever Definition A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; -- used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
- English Word Lever Definition A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
- English Word Lever Definition An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
- English Word Leverage Definition The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever.
- English Word Leveret Definition A hare in the first year of its age.
- English Word Leverock Definition A lark.
- English Word Leverwood Definition The American hop hornbeam (Ostrya Virginica), a small tree with very tough wood.
- English Word Levesel Definition A leafy shelter; a place covered with foliage.
- English Word Levet Definition A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
- English Word Leviable Definition Fit to be levied; capable of being assessed and collected; as, sums leviable by course of law.
- English Word Leviathan Definition An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.
- English Word Leviathan Definition The whale, or a great whale.
- English Word Levied Definition of Levy
- English Word Levier Definition One who levies.
- English Word Levies Definition of Levy
- English Word Levigable Definition Capable of being levigated.
- English Word Levigate Definition Made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated.
- English Word Levigate Definition To make smooth in various senses
- English Word Levigate Definition To free from grit; to reduce to an impalpable powder or paste.
- English Word Levigate Definition To mix thoroughly, as liquids or semiliquids.
- English Word Levigate Definition To polish.
- English Word Levigate Definition To make smooth in action.
- English Word Levigate Definition Technically, to make smooth by rubbing in a moist condition between hard surfaces, as in grinding pigments.
- English Word Levigate Definition Made smooth, as if polished.
- English Word Levigated Definition of Levigate
- English Word Levigating Definition of Levigate
- English Word Levigation Definition The act or operation of levigating.
- English Word Levin Definition Lightning.
- English Word Leviner Definition A swift hound.