Definition of level

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Level (v. i.) To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally; hence, to aim or point a weapon in direct line with the mark; fig., to direct the eye, mind, or effort, directly to an object..

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Hummock :: Hummock (n.) A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface..
Dioptra :: Dioptra (n.) An optical instrument, invented by Hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc..
Clinometer :: Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level..
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top..
Estrade :: Estrade (n.) A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais..
Tassel :: Tassel (n.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States..
Lock :: Lock (n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock..
Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level..
Target :: Target (n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff..
Landing :: Landing (n.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another..
Starter :: Start (v. i.) The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse..
Radical :: Radical (n.) One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative..
Plano-horizontal :: Plano-horizontal (a.) Having a level horizontal surface or position.
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward..
Causey :: Causey (n.) A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground..
Backsight :: Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3..
Course :: Course (n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
Cavalier :: Cavalier (n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts..
Float :: Float (v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
Land :: Land (n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves..
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