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Namation :: Namation (n.) A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding.

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..

Tithe :: Tithe (v. t.) To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.

Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To gather or exact; as, to levy money..

Cosher :: Cosher (v. t.) To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. See Coshering.

Levynite :: Levynite (n.) A whitish, reddish, or yellowish, transparent or translucent mineral, allied to chabazite..

Distrain :: Distrain (v. i.) To levy a distress.

Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions..

Replevy :: Replevy (v. t.) To bail.

Replevying :: Replevying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Replev.

Replevin :: Replevin (v. t.) To replevy.

Tithing :: Tithing (n.) The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.

Levy :: 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..

Levy :: Levy (n.) That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc..

Replevy :: Replevy (v. t.) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied..

Leave :: Leave (v. t.) To raise; to levy.

Levying :: Levying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lev.

Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To raise, as a siege..

Exaction :: Exaction (n.) The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion..

Clevis :: Clevis (n.) A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy..

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