Webster's Dictionary 1828

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LEVELER

LEV'ELER, noun1. One that levels or makes even.2. One that destroys or attempts to destroy distinctions, and reduce to equality.

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LEVELING

LEV'ELING, participle present tense1. Making level or even.2. Reducing to an equality of condition.LEV'ELING, noun The art or practice of finding a horizontal line, or of ascert...

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LEVELNESS

LEV'ELNESS, noun1. Evenness; equality of surface.2. Equality with something else.

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LEVEN

LEVEN. [See Leaven.]LEV'EN, noun Lightning. obsolete

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LEVER

LEV'ER, noun [Latin levo, to raise.]In mechanics, a bar of metal, wood, or other substance, turning on a support called the fulcrum or prop. Its arms are equal, as in the balanc...

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LEVERET

LEV'ERET, noun A hare in the first year of her age.

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LEVEROCK

LEV'EROCK, noun A bird, a lark. [See Lark.]

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LEVET

LEV'ET, noun A blast of a trumpet; probably that by which soldiers are called in the morning. [Not used.]

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LEVIABLE

LEV'IABLE, adjective [from levy.] That may be levied; that may be assessed and collected; as sums leviable by course of law.

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LEVIATHAN

LEVI'ATHAN, noun [Heb.]1. An aquatic animal, described in Job 41:1, and mentioned in other passages of Scripture. In Isaiah, it is called the crooked serpent. It is not agreed w...

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LEVIGATE

LEV'IGATE, verb transitive [Latin lavigo, from lavis, smooth, Gr.]1. In pharmacy and chimistry, to rub or grind to a fine impalpable powder; to make fine, soft and smooth.2. To ...

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LEVIGATED

LEV'IGATED, participle passive Reduced to a fine impalpable powder.

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LEVIGATING

LEV'IGATING, participle present tense Rendering very fine, soft and smooth, by grinding or rubbing.

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LEVIGATION

LEVIGA'TION, noun The act or operation of grinding or rubbing a solid substance to a fine impalpable powder.

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LEVITATION

LEVITA'TION, noun [Latin levis, levitas.] Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.

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LEVITE

LE'VITE, noun [from Levi, one the sons of Jacob.]One of the tribe or family of Levi; a descendant of Levi; more particularly, an officer in the Jewish church, who was employed i...

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LEVITICAL

LEVIT'ICAL, adjective1. Belong to the Levites, or descendants of Levi; as the levitical law, the law given by Moses, which prescribed the duties and rights of the priests and Le...

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LEVITICALLY

LEVIT'ICALLY, adverb After the manner of the Levites.

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LEVITICUS

LEVIT'ICUS, noun [from Levi, Levite.] A canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations which relate to the priests and Levites among the Jews, or the b...

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LEVITY

LEV'ITY, noun [Latin levitas, from levis, light; connected perhaps with Eng. lift.]1. Lightness; the want of weight in a body, compared with another that is heavier. The ascent ...

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LEVY

LEV'Y, verb transitive [Latin levo; Eng. to lift.]1. To raise; to collect. To levy troops, is to enlist or to order men into public service. To levy an army, is to collect troop...

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LEW

LEW, adjective Tepid; lukewarm; pale; wan. obsolete

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LEWD

LEWD, adjective [Heb.]1. Given to the unlawful indulgence of lust; addicted to fornication or adultery; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.Ezekiel 23:44.2. Proceeding from unlawful ...

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LEWDLY

LEWD'LY, adverb1. With the unlawful indulgence of lust; lustfully.2. Wickedly; wantonly.

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LEWDNESS

LEWD'NESS, noun1. The unlawful indulgence of lust; fornication, or adultery.2. In Scripture, it generally denotes idolatry.3. Licentiousness; shamelessness.

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LEWDSTER

LEWD'STER, noun One given to the criminal indulgence of lust; a lecher. [Not used.]

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LEXICOGRAPHER

LEXICOG'RAPHER, noun [See Lexicography.] The author of a lexicon or dictionary.