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A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I.

Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to Ant: dull or Ant: stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.

To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted. Advanced to a level with ancient peers. Prescott.

Level with the ground; flat. [Obs.] Bacon.

On a level. The bank is . . . aflush with the sea. Swinburne.

owards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. Milton.

endicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.

A cloud formation similar to cirro-stratus, but heavier and at a lower level.

Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

A variety of the lever escapement with a wide impulse pin.

s by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid. Apparent horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon. -- Apparent time. See Time. -- Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible…

rry or advance near; to cause to approach. To approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature. Burke.

The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.

The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness. Goldsmith.

A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.

A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level.

which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0º Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris. Sir W. Thomson.

The pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a unit of surface, or about 14.7 Ibs. to the sq. inch. Hydrogen was liquefied under a pressure of 650 atmospheres. Lubbock.

A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys.