Leveret (n.) A hare in the first year of its age.
Leverock (n.) A lark.
Leverwood (n.) The American hop hornbeam (Ostrya Virginica), a small tree with very tough wood.
Levesel (n.) A leafy shelter; a place covered with foliage.
Levet (n.) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
Leviable (a.) Fit to be levied; capable of being assessed and collected; as, sums leviable by course of law.
Leviathan (n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.
Leviathan (n.) The whale, or a great whale.
Levier (n.) One who levies.
Levigable (v. t.) Capable of being levigated.
Levigate (a.) Made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated.
Levigated (imp. & p. p.) of Levigate
Levigating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Levigate
Levigate (v. t.) To make smooth in various senses
Levigate (v. t.) To free from grit; to reduce to an impalpable powder or paste.
Levigate (v. t.) To mix thoroughly, as liquids or semiliquids.
Levigate (v. t.) To polish.
Levigate (v. t.) To make smooth in action.
Levigate (v. t.) Technically, to make smooth by rubbing in a moist condition between hard surfaces, as in grinding pigments.
Levigate (a.) Made smooth, as if polished.
Levigation (n.) The act or operation of levigating.
Levin (n.) Lightning.
Leviner (n.) A swift hound.
Levir (n.) A husband's brother; -- used in reference to levirate marriages.
Levirate (a.) Alt. of Leviratical
Leviratical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother.
Leviration (n.) Levirate marriage or marriages.
Levirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds, including the hornbills, kingfishers, and related forms.
Levitate (v. i.) To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate.
Levitate (v. t.) To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table.
Levitation (n.) Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.
Levitation (n.) The act or process of making buoyant.
Levite (n.) One of the tribe or family of Levi; a descendant of Levi; esp., one subordinate to the priests (who were of the same tribe) and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first, and afterward the temple, such as the care of the building, bringing of wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices, the music of the services, etc.
Levite (n.) A priest; -- so called in contempt or ridicule.
Levitical (a.) Of or pertaining to a Levite or the Levites.
Levitical (a.) Priestly.
Levitical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, the law contained in the book of Leviticus.
Levitically (adv.) After the manner of the Levites; in accordance with the levitical law.
Leviticus (n.) The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law.
Levity (n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity.
Levity (n.) Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity.
Levity (n.) Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility.
Levo- () A prefix from L. laevus
Levo- () Pertaining to, or toward, the left; as, levorotatory.
Levo- () Turning the plane of polarized light to the left; as, levotartaric acid; levoracemic acid; levogyratory crystals, etc.
Levogyrate (a.) Turning or twisting the plane of polarization towards the left, as levulose, levotartaric acid, etc.
Levorotatory (a.) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc.
Levulin (n.) A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, as a colorless, spongy, amorphous material. It is so called because by decomposition it yields levulose.
Levulinic (a.) Pertaining to, or denoting, an acid (called also acetyl-propionic acid), C5H8O3, obtained by the action of dilute acids on various sugars (as levulose).
Levulosan (n.) An unfermentable carbohydrate obtained by gently heating levulose.
Levulose (n.) A sirupy variety of sugar, rarely obtained crystallized, occurring widely in honey, ripe fruits, etc., and hence called also fruit sugar. It is called levulose, because it rotates the plane of polarization to the left.
Levies (pl. ) of Levy
Levy (n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.
Levy (n.) The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.
Levy (n.) That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.
Levy (n.) The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution.
Levied (imp. & p. p.) of Levy
Levying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Levy
Levy (v. t.) To raise, as a siege.
Levy (v. t.) To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc.
Levy (v. t.) To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.
Levy (v. t.) To gather or exact; as, to levy money.
Levy (v. t.) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
Levy (v. t.) To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution.
Levy (v. i.) To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods.
Levyne (n.) Alt. of Levynite
Levynite (n.) A whitish, reddish, or yellowish, transparent or translucent mineral, allied to chabazite.
Lew (a.) Lukewarm; tepid.
Lewd (superl.) Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.
Lewd (superl.) Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious.
Lewd (superl.) Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.
Lewd (superl.) Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language.
Lewdster (n.) A lewd person.
Lewis (n.) Alt. of Lewisson
Lewisson (n.) An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.
Lewisson (n.) A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.
Leges (pl. ) of Lex
Lex (n.) Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants.
Lexical (a.) Of or pertaining to a lexicon, to lexicography, or words; according or conforming to a lexicon.
Lexicographer (n.) The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary.
Lexicographic (a.) Alt. of Lexicographical
Lexicographical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or according to, lexicography.
Lexicographist (n.) A lexicographer.
Lexicography (n.) The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.
Lexicologist (n.) One versed in lexicology.
Lexicology (n.) The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.
Lexicon (n.) A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.
Lexiconist (n.) A writer of a lexicon.
Lexigraphic (a.) Of or pertaining to lexigraphy.
Lexigraphy (n.) The art or practice of defining words; definition of words.
Lexiphanic (a.) Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.
Lexiphanicism (n.) The use of pretentious words, language, or style.
Lexipharmic (a.) See Alexipharmic.
Ley (v. t. & i.) To lay; to wager.
Ley (n.) Law.
Ley (n.) See Lye.
Ley (n.) Grass or meadow land; a lea.
Ley (a.) Fallow; unseeded.
Leyden jar () Alt. of Leyden phial
Leyden phial () A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.