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acility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert gentleman. Shak. What practice, howsoe'er expert In fitting aptest words to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert Tennison.…

cond raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel. To fill in, to insert; as, he filled in the figures. -- To fill out, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit; to make complete; as, to fill out a bill. -- To fill up, to make quite full; to fill to the brim or entirely; to occupy c…

ve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level.

A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard. [U.S.]

Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. Milton.

Eveness of surface; want of relief or prominence; the state of being plane or level.

To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.

ess of the walls and partitions, arrangement of passages, apartments, and openings at the level of any floor of a house.

rt, as a hunter a bird. Nares. To flush a joints (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.

h; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea. Foam cock, in steam boilers, a cock at the water level, to blow off impurities.

One of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater, etc., and on a level therewith. Before the footlights, upon the stage; -- hence, in the capacity of an actor.

Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.

ouse, a building of which the form and support is made of framed timbers. [U.S.] -- Frame level, a mason's level. -- Frame saw, a thin saw stretched in a frame to give it rigidity.

That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.

The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See Fur, v. t., 3.

The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like. Hence:

A lever to bend crossbows.

A working drift or level. Whispering gallery. See under Whispering.