leveen.¹

/lɪˈviː/

/ˈlɛviː/

Forms: Also 1800s levy.

Etymology: < French levée, feminine of levé, past participle of lever to raise.

U.S.

a. An embankment to prevent the overflow of a river.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > structures protecting from water or flooding > [noun] > embankment on river

levee1718

mat1876

1718–20 Dumont Plan N. Orleans in J. Winsor Mississ. Basin (1895) 151.

1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi 10 The town [New Orleans] is secured from the inundations of the river by a raised bank, generally called the Levée.

1812 J. Cutler Topogr. Descr. Ohio 90 Here commences the embankment or Levee, on the western side of the river.

1850 B. Taylor Eldorado I. i. 5 Broad fields of sugar cane..come down to the narrow levee which protects them from the flood.

1883 Encycl. Amer. I. 197/1 The levee—or levy, as it is often written—is the name of the embankment itself.

1895 J. Winsor Mississippi Basin 158 Perier had completed his levee along the river.

attributive.1877 W. H. Burroughs On Taxation 29 A levee tax was laid.

b. Geology. A low broad ridge of water-laid sediment running along the side of a stream channel; also, any of various similar natural embankments, as those formed by mud flows or lava flows, or along a submarine channel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [noun] > by water

roddon1857

platform-mud1863

cone1864

fan1864

levee1870

alluvial fan1873

apron1889

sand-wash1901

scroll1902

spillbank1909

sheet-flow1928

point bar1945

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > of river > levee

roddon1857

levee1870

1870 in L. C. Cramton Early Hist. Yellowstone Nat. Park (1932) 129 Passing over a sand levee, grown up with sagebrush, we found ourselves on the open beach of the great Yellowstone Lake.

1870 in L. C. Cramton Early Hist. Yellowstone Nat. Park (1932) 137 The shoreline is bordered by a levee of obsidian, lava pebbles, and calcareous fragments, cutting off and inclosing ponds of water behind it.

1910 Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 1909 260 Deltas occasionally take the form of long, narrow ridges upon one or both sides of a stream, resembling the natural levees in the ‘goosefoot’ of the Mississippi.

1942 Jrnl. Geomorphol. 5 222 (heading) Mudflow levees.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 99 Levees may form along the water courses.

1962 E. A. Vincent tr. A. Rittmann Volcanoes i. 33 When the supply of lava diminishes and finally comes to an end, the still-fluid lava inside the stream continues to flow out and the mantle of scoriae collapses, leaving a more or less even flow of scoriaceous block lava (clinker lava), flanked on both sides by upstanding block walls, called lava moraines (scoria moraines, lava levées).

1964 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 48 1141/2 Trawl No. 23 was taken from a natural levee [of the Congo Submarine Canyon] and although the water depth was more than 500 fathoms greater than that of trawl No. 22, there was no marked decrease in diversity and abundance of animal life.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 651/2 Alluvial streams flowing on flood plains commonly develop natural levees. Each levee is a low, wide ridge located immediately adjacent to the channel.

1972 G. A. Macdonald Volcanoes v. 84 Overflows spread lava a few feet on either side of the river... Repeated overflows gradually build up natural levees.

2. A landing-place, pier, quay.

ΚΠ

1842 H. Caswall City of Mormons 3 The landing-place (or levée, as it is denominated).

attributive.1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Levee-dues, shipping or landing dues paid at a levee.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

leveen.²

/ˈlɛviː/

Forms: Also 1700s levee, levy, 1800s levée.

Etymology: < French levé, variant of lever (Littré lever n. 3) rising (substantive use of lever infinitive to rise): compare couchee n.All our verse quotations place the stress on the first syllable. In England this is the court pronunciation, and prevails in educated use. The pronunciation /lɪˈviː/ or /lɛˈviː/, which is given by Walker, is occasionally heard in Great Britain, and appears to be generally preferred in the U.S.

†1. The action of rising, spec. from one's bed. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [noun] > action of getting up or rising

uprisinga1300

uprista1300

arising1340

risinga1400

up1602

uprise1633

levee1700

1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 53 O, nothing is more alluring than a Levee from a Couch in some Confusion.

1727 P. Longueville Hermit 245 An old Monkey..quietly waiting his Levy, to intice him to come.

1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 129 Their levee was honoured with the presence of the constable.

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xviii. 55 He [the planter] is next accosted by his overseer, who regularly every morning attends at his levee.

1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vii. 70 Birds..In levee of the morn, with eulogy Ascending, hailed the advent of the dawn.

a. A reception of visitors on rising from bed; a morning assembly held by a prince or person of distinction.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > a reception of visitors > by person of distinction > in morning

rising1625

levee1673

lever1742

1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i. 17 You shall be every day at the King's Levé, and I at the Queen's.

1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse i. 10 Sure my Gentleman's grown a Favourite at Court, he has got so many People at his Levee.

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 110 At his Levy no Crowds you see.

1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 3 Sir, Spain has sent a thousand jars of oyl; Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door; A hundred Oxen at your levee roar.

1765 O. Goldsmith Ess. xxvi. 231 Now tawdry madam kept a bevy Of powder'd coxcombs at her levy.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cxxxix. 72 Without a word of previous admonition, To hold a levee round his lady's bed.

1823 C. Lamb Christ's Hosp. in Elia 31 The Lions in the Tower—to whose levée..we had a prescriptive title to admission.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People x. §1. 716 The levees of the Ministers were crowded with lawn sleeves.

1887 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. i. 7 Louis XVI's last levée.

b. In Great Britain and Ireland, an assembly held (in the early afternoon) by the sovereign or his representative, at which men only are received.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > a reception of visitors > by sovereign for men only

levee1766

1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. iii. 110 The minister had afterwards introduced him to his majesty in full levee.

1770 Public Advertiser 10 Mar. His Majesty's Levee began at a quarter past two.

1797 Dr. Burney Let. 13 Sept. in F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1846) VI. 123 A levee is announced for Wednesday..and a drawing-room on Thursday.

1809 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 411 At the Levée..Mr. Wellesley Pole kissed hands.

1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 63 My presentation, as usual, to the King and Queen, at their levées.

1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. (1851) 301 The King would be civil to him at the levee.

1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing vii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 321/2 He goes to the levee once a-year.

1896 Law Times 100 408/1 On the occasion..of Lord Cadogan's first Viceregal levée in Dublin Castle.

c. A miscellaneous assemblage of visitors, irrespective of the time of day; applied (U.S.) to the President's receptions.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [noun] > assemblage of

levee1766

society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > a reception of visitors > by U.S. president

levee1837

1766 M. Cutler Jrnl. 28 Mar. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 12 A second grand levee at Ellis' Inn.

1831 J. Sinclair Corr. II. 100 Several ladies attended the evening levee of the Minister of the Home Department.

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 96 The President's levee presents many facilities for ridicule.

1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. viii. 302 It was on the occasion of one of those general assemblies which are held on certain nights between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock, and are called, rather oddly, Levees.

in extended use.1825 Morning Chron. in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 993 The dogs..held a levee.

†3. The company assembled at a levee; attendance of visitors. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [noun] > assemblage of > in morning

levee1701

1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair ii. i. 11 They were fisted about among his dirty Levee of Disbanded Officers?

1717 L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 180 Sanctify my heart, that I may be worthy to be one of thy divine Levy.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxix. 189 I was again honored with a numerous levy [1762 levee].

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 171 Charlemagne received his levee in a great bath.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 242 Going round the levee, [he] spoke to every individual.

Compounds

General attributive.

levee-day n.

ΚΠ

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vi. 84 At every Levee Day repeat the same Operation.

1789 A. Hamilton Let. 5 May in Papers (1962) II. 335 The President to have a levee day once a week for receiving visits.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. ii. 24 The day after his arrival..was a levee day.

levee-dress n.

ΚΠ

1897 Geneal. Mag. Oct. 325 All gentlemen present wore levée dress.

levee-haunting n.

ΚΠ

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 547. ¶5 Such as are troubled with the Disease of Levée-Haunting.

levee-hunting n.

ΚΠ

1744 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl. 143 Levy-hunting.

levee-man n.

ΚΠ

1721–2 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1726) xiii. 67 To domineer over their masters' clients, and levee-men.

levee-morn n.

ΚΠ

1812 T. Moore Twopenny Post Bag ii. 20 Last Levee-morn he look'd it through.

levee-room n.

ΚΠ

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 205 The earl left his young friend a-while in the levee-room.

1836 in Byron's Wks. (1846) 533/2 On entering the levee-room at Holyrood.

levee vow n.

ΚΠ

1764 C. Churchill Duellist iii. 29 The private squeeze, the Levee vow.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

leveev.¹

/lɪˈviː/

Etymology: < levee n.¹

U.S.

transitive. To raise a levee or embankment along (a river); to raise levees or embankments in (a district). Also, to shut or keep off by means of a levee.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > embank

banka1450

bench1587

embank1700

levee1832

bund1883

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [verb (transitive)]

levee1832

staithe1839

embank1872

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > structures protecting from water or flooding > [verb (transitive)] > provide with levees or embankments

to stank back1656

levee1832

1832 R. Baird View Valley of Mississippi xxii. 269 Much has been done to levee or embank the Mississippi River.

1837 J. L. Williams Territory of Florida 45 Where there is clay enough in the soil, to form good embankments, the waters might be leveed off.

1847 J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. Rocky Mts. 121 Several islands in the river might be leveed and successfully cultivated.

1849 D. Nason Jrnl. 69 The banks are leveed.

1877 W. H. Burroughs On Taxation 75 An act incorporated certain persons for the purpose of leveeing and draining a district.

Derivatives

leˈveeing n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun] > action of raising

leveeing1845

bunding1939

1845 Indiana Senate Jrnl. 364 An act to authorize the leveeing of Blue river, in Shelby county.

1858 De Bow's Rev. Oct. How are we to be protected [from overflow]? By leveeing.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

† leveev.²

Etymology: < levee n.²

Obsolete.

transitive. To attend the levees of; to pursue at levees.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (transitive)] > respectfully

to wait on or upon ——1501

to wait of ——1555

levee1725

1725 E. Young Universal Passion: Satire IV 8 Warm in pursuit, he Levées all the great.

1766 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances IV. 158 You may levee him fifty Times, without being admitted by his Swiss Porter.

1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 7 The paltry ambition of levying and following titles.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

n.¹1718

n.²1673

v.¹1832

v.²1725

单词	levee
释义	leveen.¹ /lɪˈviː//ˈlɛviː/ Forms: Also 1800s levy. Etymology: < French levée, feminine of levé, past participle of lever to raise. U.S. 1. a. An embankment to prevent the overflow of a river. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > structures protecting from water or flooding > [noun] > embankment on river levee1718 mat1876 1718–20 Dumont Plan N. Orleans in J. Winsor Mississ. Basin (1895) 151. 1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi 10 The town [New Orleans] is secured from the inundations of the river by a raised bank, generally called the Levée. 1812 J. Cutler Topogr. Descr. Ohio 90 Here commences the embankment or Levee, on the western side of the river. 1850 B. Taylor Eldorado I. i. 5 Broad fields of sugar cane..come down to the narrow levee which protects them from the flood. 1883 Encycl. Amer. I. 197/1 The levee—or levy, as it is often written—is the name of the embankment itself. 1895 J. Winsor Mississippi Basin 158 Perier had completed his levee along the river. attributive.1877 W. H. Burroughs On Taxation 29 A levee tax was laid. b. Geology. A low broad ridge of water-laid sediment running along the side of a stream channel; also, any of various similar natural embankments, as those formed by mud flows or lava flows, or along a submarine channel. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [noun] > by water roddon1857 platform-mud1863 cone1864 fan1864 levee1870 alluvial fan1873 apron1889 sand-wash1901 scroll1902 spillbank1909 sheet-flow1928 point bar1945 the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > of river > levee roddon1857 levee1870 1870 in L. C. Cramton Early Hist. Yellowstone Nat. Park (1932) 129 Passing over a sand levee, grown up with sagebrush, we found ourselves on the open beach of the great Yellowstone Lake. 1870 in L. C. Cramton Early Hist. Yellowstone Nat. Park (1932) 137 The shoreline is bordered by a levee of obsidian, lava pebbles, and calcareous fragments, cutting off and inclosing ponds of water behind it. 1910 Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 1909 260 Deltas occasionally take the form of long, narrow ridges upon one or both sides of a stream, resembling the natural levees in the ‘goosefoot’ of the Mississippi. 1942 Jrnl. Geomorphol. 5 222 (heading) Mudflow levees. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 99 Levees may form along the water courses. 1962 E. A. Vincent tr. A. Rittmann Volcanoes i. 33 When the supply of lava diminishes and finally comes to an end, the still-fluid lava inside the stream continues to flow out and the mantle of scoriae collapses, leaving a more or less even flow of scoriaceous block lava (clinker lava), flanked on both sides by upstanding block walls, called lava moraines (scoria moraines, lava levées). 1964 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 48 1141/2 Trawl No. 23 was taken from a natural levee [of the Congo Submarine Canyon] and although the water depth was more than 500 fathoms greater than that of trawl No. 22, there was no marked decrease in diversity and abundance of animal life. 1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 651/2 Alluvial streams flowing on flood plains commonly develop natural levees. Each levee is a low, wide ridge located immediately adjacent to the channel. 1972 G. A. Macdonald Volcanoes v. 84 Overflows spread lava a few feet on either side of the river... Repeated overflows gradually build up natural levees. 2. A landing-place, pier, quay. ΚΠ 1842 H. Caswall City of Mormons 3 The landing-place (or levée, as it is denominated). attributive.1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Levee-dues, shipping or landing dues paid at a levee. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2022). leveen.² /ˈlɛviː/ Forms: Also 1700s levee, levy, 1800s levée. Etymology: < French levé, variant of lever (Littré lever n. 3) rising (substantive use of lever infinitive to rise): compare couchee n.All our verse quotations place the stress on the first syllable. In England this is the court pronunciation, and prevails in educated use. The pronunciation /lɪˈviː/ or /lɛˈviː/, which is given by Walker, is occasionally heard in Great Britain, and appears to be generally preferred in the U.S. †1. The action of rising, spec. from one's bed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [noun] > action of getting up or rising uprisinga1300 uprista1300 arising1340 risinga1400 up1602 uprise1633 levee1700 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 53 O, nothing is more alluring than a Levee from a Couch in some Confusion. 1727 P. Longueville Hermit 245 An old Monkey..quietly waiting his Levy, to intice him to come. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 129 Their levee was honoured with the presence of the constable. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xviii. 55 He [the planter] is next accosted by his overseer, who regularly every morning attends at his levee. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vii. 70 Birds..In levee of the morn, with eulogy Ascending, hailed the advent of the dawn. 2. a. A reception of visitors on rising from bed; a morning assembly held by a prince or person of distinction. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > a reception of visitors > by person of distinction > in morning rising1625 levee1673 lever1742 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i. 17 You shall be every day at the King's Levé, and I at the Queen's. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse i. 10 Sure my Gentleman's grown a Favourite at Court, he has got so many People at his Levee. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 110 At his Levy no Crowds you see. 1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 3 Sir, Spain has sent a thousand jars of oyl; Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door; A hundred Oxen at your levee roar. 1765 O. Goldsmith Ess. xxvi. 231 Now tawdry madam kept a bevy Of powder'd coxcombs at her levy. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cxxxix. 72 Without a word of previous admonition, To hold a levee round his lady's bed. 1823 C. Lamb Christ's Hosp. in Elia 31 The Lions in the Tower—to whose levée..we had a prescriptive title to admission. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People x. §1. 716 The levees of the Ministers were crowded with lawn sleeves. 1887 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. i. 7 Louis XVI's last levée. b. In Great Britain and Ireland, an assembly held (in the early afternoon) by the sovereign or his representative, at which men only are received. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > a reception of visitors > by sovereign for men only levee1766 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. iii. 110 The minister had afterwards introduced him to his majesty in full levee. 1770 Public Advertiser 10 Mar. His Majesty's Levee began at a quarter past two. 1797 Dr. Burney Let. 13 Sept. in F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1846) VI. 123 A levee is announced for Wednesday..and a drawing-room on Thursday. 1809 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 411 At the Levée..Mr. Wellesley Pole kissed hands. 1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 63 My presentation, as usual, to the King and Queen, at their levées. 1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. (1851) 301 The King would be civil to him at the levee. 1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing vii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 321/2 He goes to the levee once a-year. 1896 Law Times 100 408/1 On the occasion..of Lord Cadogan's first Viceregal levée in Dublin Castle. c. A miscellaneous assemblage of visitors, irrespective of the time of day; applied (U.S.) to the President's receptions. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [noun] > assemblage of levee1766 society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > a reception of visitors > by U.S. president levee1837 1766 M. Cutler Jrnl. 28 Mar. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 12 A second grand levee at Ellis' Inn. 1831 J. Sinclair Corr. II. 100 Several ladies attended the evening levee of the Minister of the Home Department. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 96 The President's levee presents many facilities for ridicule. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. viii. 302 It was on the occasion of one of those general assemblies which are held on certain nights between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock, and are called, rather oddly, Levees. in extended use.1825 Morning Chron. in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 993 The dogs..held a levee. †3. The company assembled at a levee; attendance of visitors. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [noun] > assemblage of > in morning levee1701 1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair ii. i. 11 They were fisted about among his dirty Levee of Disbanded Officers? 1717 L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 180 Sanctify my heart, that I may be worthy to be one of thy divine Levy. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxix. 189 I was again honored with a numerous levy [1762 levee]. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 171 Charlemagne received his levee in a great bath. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 242 Going round the levee, [he] spoke to every individual. Compounds General attributive. levee-day n. ΚΠ 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vi. 84 At every Levee Day repeat the same Operation. 1789 A. Hamilton Let. 5 May in Papers (1962) II. 335 The President to have a levee day once a week for receiving visits. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. ii. 24 The day after his arrival..was a levee day. levee-dress n. ΚΠ 1897 Geneal. Mag. Oct. 325 All gentlemen present wore levée dress. levee-haunting n. ΚΠ 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 547. ¶5 Such as are troubled with the Disease of Levée-Haunting. levee-hunting n. ΚΠ 1744 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl. 143 Levy-hunting. levee-man n. ΚΠ 1721–2 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1726) xiii. 67 To domineer over their masters' clients, and levee-men. levee-morn n. ΚΠ 1812 T. Moore Twopenny Post Bag ii. 20 Last Levee-morn he look'd it through. levee-room n. ΚΠ 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 205 The earl left his young friend a-while in the levee-room. 1836 in Byron's Wks. (1846) 533/2 On entering the levee-room at Holyrood. levee vow n. ΚΠ 1764 C. Churchill Duellist iii. 29 The private squeeze, the Levee vow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2022). leveev.¹ /lɪˈviː/ Etymology: < levee n.¹ U.S. transitive. To raise a levee or embankment along (a river); to raise levees or embankments in (a district). Also, to shut or keep off by means of a levee. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > embank banka1450 bench1587 embank1700 levee1832 bund1883 the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [verb (transitive)] levee1832 staithe1839 embank1872 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > structures protecting from water or flooding > [verb (transitive)] > provide with levees or embankments to stank back1656 levee1832 1832 R. Baird View Valley of Mississippi xxii. 269 Much has been done to levee or embank the Mississippi River. 1837 J. L. Williams Territory of Florida 45 Where there is clay enough in the soil, to form good embankments, the waters might be leveed off. 1847 J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. Rocky Mts. 121 Several islands in the river might be leveed and successfully cultivated. 1849 D. Nason Jrnl. 69 The banks are leveed. 1877 W. H. Burroughs On Taxation 75 An act incorporated certain persons for the purpose of leveeing and draining a district. Derivatives leˈveeing n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun] > action of raising leveeing1845 bunding1939 1845 Indiana Senate Jrnl. 364 An act to authorize the leveeing of Blue river, in Shelby county. 1858 De Bow's Rev. Oct. How are we to be protected [from overflow]? By leveeing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online September 2018). † leveev.² Etymology: < levee n.² Obsolete. transitive. To attend the levees of; to pursue at levees. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (transitive)] > respectfully to wait on or upon ——1501 to wait of ——1555 levee1725 1725 E. Young Universal Passion: Satire IV 8 Warm in pursuit, he Levées all the great. 1766 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances IV. 158 You may levee him fifty Times, without being admitted by his Swiss Porter. 1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 7 The paltry ambition of levying and following titles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹1718n.²1673v.¹1832v.²1725
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Compounds

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Derivatives

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