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Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs. Cantalever bridge, a bridge in which the principle of the cantalever is applied. It is usually a trussed bridge, composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers whic…

Same as Cantalever.

Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enameled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, designating the process of making such enamel work. --n.…

ss of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert. Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. Macaulay. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. C. Kingsley.

Somewhat clever. [R.]

In a clever manner. Never was man so clever absurd. C. Smart.

The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the Troughton level, from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the Gavatt level.…

A pupil; a student.

Ten and one added; as, eleven men.

Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.

Eleven. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.

The level formed by the surface of still water.

See under Y, n.

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

ntellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech. No man wrote abler state papers. Macaulay.

Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science.