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Lev"e*sel (lv"*sl), n. [AS. leáf a leaf + sæl, sel, a room, a hall.] A leafy shelter; a place covered with foliage. [Obs.]

Behind the mill, under a levesel.

Chaucer.

Lev"et (lv"t), n. [Cf. F. lever to raise.] A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Lev"i*a*ble (lv"**b'l), a. [From Levy to assess.] Fit to be levied; capable of being assessed and collected; as, sums leviable by course of law. Bacon.

Le*vi"a*than (l*v"*than), n. [Heb. livythn.]

1. An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.

It is not certainly known what animal is intended, whether the crocodile, the whale, or some sort of serpent.

2. The whale, or a great whale. Milton.

Lev"i*er (lv"*r), n. One who levies. Cartwright.

Lev"i*ga*ble (lv"*g*b'l), a. [See Levigate, v. t.] Capable of being levigated.

Lev"i*gate (-gt), a. [L. levigatus, p. p. of levigare to lighten, fr. lvis light.] Made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

Lev"i*gate (-gt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Levigated (- g`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Levigating.] [L. levigatus, p. p. of levigare to make smooth, fr. lvis smooth; akin to Gr. lei^os.] To make smooth in various senses: (a) To free from grit; to reduce to an impalpable powder or paste. (b) To mix thoroughly, as liquids or semiliquids. (c) To polish. (d) To make smooth in action. " When use hath levigated the organs." Barrow. (e) Technically, to make smooth by rubbing in a moist condition between hard surfaces, as in grinding pigments.

Lev"i*gate (-gt), a. [L. levigatus, p. p.] Made smooth, as if polished.

Lev`i*ga"tion (lv`*g"shn), n. [L. levigatio a smoothing: cf. F. lévigation.] The act or operation of levigating.

Lev"in (lv"n), n. [Etymol. uncertain. Cf. Leven.] Lightning. [Obs.] Spenser.

Levin brand, a thunderbolt. [Obs.] Spenser.

Lev"in*er (-r), n. (Zoöl.) A swift hound.

Le"vir (l"vr), n. [L.] A husband's brother; -- used in reference to levirate marriages.

{ Lev"i*rate (lv"*rt), Lev`i*rat"ic*al (-rt"*kal), } a. [L. levir a husband's brother, brother- in-law; akin to Gr. dah`r: cf. F. lévirat leviration.] 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.

The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother.

Alford.

Lev`i*ra"tion (lv`*r"shn), n. Levirate marriage or marriages. Kitto.

||Lev`i*ros"tres (-rs"trz), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. levis light + rostrum ||beak.] (Zoöl.) A group of birds, including the hornbills, ||kingfishers, and related forms. || Lev"i*tate (lv"*tt), v. i. [L. levitas, -atis, lightness. See Levity.] To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate. Sir. J. Herschel.

Lev"i*tate, v. t. (Spiritualism) To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table.

Lev`i*ta"tion (-t"shn), n. [L. levis light in weight.]

1. Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light. Paley.

2. The act or process of making buoyant.