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Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.

Typhus fever.

To believe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A dry sirocco of Spain.

The act of rising. " The sun's levee." Gray.

See Levy in mass, under Levy, n.

Allowable; permissible; lawful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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 ear…

One who, or that which, levels.

The act or operation of making level.

The disposition or endeavor to level all distinctions of rank in society.

In an even or level manner.

The state or quality of being level.

Lightning. [Obs.] Wild thunder dint and fiery leven. Chaucer.

More agreeable; more pleasing. [Obs.] Chaucer. To be lever than. See Had as lief, under Had.

The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple (Mech.), the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular distance from the line in which a force acts upon a body to a poin…

A hare in the first year of its age.

A lark. [Scot.]

The American hop hornbeam (Ostrya Virginica), a small tree with very tough wood.

A leafy shelter; a place covered with foliage. [Obs.] Behind the mill, under a levesel. Chaucer.