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Show L'E' L'E among whom his party have, indeed, more friend Savift than I could with 5. An inftrument whereby mafons adjuf their work The Zevel is from two to ten feet long, that i may reach over a confiderable length of the work - if the plumb-line hang juft upon the perpendicular when the /wel is fet flat down upo wor the work th but if it hangs on either fide th is level perpendicular, the floor or work muft be raifed o that fide, till the plumb-line hang exaétly on th Moxon's Mechanical Exercifes perpendicular .6. Rule plan borrowed fro fcheme the mechanick level Be the fair Jewel of thy actions laid As temp'rance wills, and prudence may perfuade Prior And try if life be worth the liver's care an 7. The line of dire@ion in whic miflive weapon is aimed I ftood import.tsv th® lewe Ofa full charg'd confederacy, and gave thank To you that chok'd it. Shakefpeare's Henry VIII As if that name Did murther her Shakefpeare's Romeo and 71{/1":! Thrice happy is that humble pair Beneath the lewel of all care Over whofe heads_thofe arrows fly Of fad diftruft and jealoufy Waller 8. The line in which the fight paffes Fird at firft fight with what the mufe imparts In fearlefs youth we tempt the heights of arts While from the bounded /ewe/ of cur min Short views we take, nor fee the lengths behind Pope Lz vELLER. #./. [from Jewel. 1. One who makes any thing even 2. One who deftroys fuperiority ; one wh endeavo s to bring all to the fame flat of equality You are an everlafting leweller 5 you won't allo Collier encouragement to extraordinary merit LeVELNESS. 7. /. [from Jewel. 1. Evenvefs; equality of furface 2. Equality with fomething elfe breat, makes it rife and ferment 2. Any thing capable of changin nature of a greater mafs th The matter fermenteth upon the old lewen, an Wileman's Surgery becometh more acrid The peflilential /ewains conveyed in goods Arbuthnot LEVER. n. /. [lewvier, French. The fecond mechanical power, is a balance fupported by a hypomoechlion; only the centre is no in the middle, as in the common balance, but nea one end; for which reafon it is ufed to elevate o yaife a great weight ; whence comes the name Lver Harris Have you any lawers to lift me up again bein Shakefpeare Some draw with cords, and fome the monfte Denban: With rolls and lewers In a Jewver, the motion can be continued only fo fo fhort a fpace, as may be anfwerable to that littl diftance betwixt the fulciment and the weight which is always by fo much leffer, as the difproportion betwixt the weight and the power is greater and the motion itfelf sore eafy, Wilk.Math.Magick Some hoifting Jeawers, fome the wheels prepare Dryden Le'verer young hare n He that led the cavalcad Wore a fowgelder's flagellet On which he blewas firong a fevet [liewret, French. Hudibras t i e b h o e w l ' e - l w A Beaus banifh beaus, and coaches coaches drive is retaine wor in Scotland and de notes the lark a u i r p e t v h fmaller bird Th e g A ' o l W as, the leweroo s o r w / t a r o f l w clean.sh data import.tsv out README f IF the luf Scotch Prov Thatma Le'viarLe. adj. [from Jewy. be levied r w a y p t e r a a m The f o f u c b b i l b t r w in not brough V n H n c B law A wate n. f. [1n9 b F o o b t i n i n m a i a By fome imagined the crocodile, but i poetry generally taken for the whale We may, as bootlefs, fpend our vain comman Upon th' enraged foldiers in their fpoil As fend our precepts to the lwiathan Shakefpeare's Henry V. To come afhore Cantt thou draw out leviathan with an hook Fob More to embroil the deep; lewiathan And his unwieldy train, in dreadful fpor Thomfon's Winter Tempeft the loofen'd brine 7o LE'VIGATE. w. a. [lzwige, Latin. 1. To rub or grind to an 1mpalpabl powder 2. To mix till the liquor becomes fmoot and uniform The chyle is white, as confifting of falt, oil, an Arbuthnot much lewigated or fmooth a. /. [from levigate. Levigation is'the reducing of hatd bodies, a coral, tutty, and precious ftones, into a fubtil powder, by grinding upon marble with a muller but unlefs the inftruments are extremely hard, the will fo wear as to double the weight ef the medicine Ruincy LEVITE. #. /. [levita, Latin, from Lew:. 1. One of the tribe of Levi ; one bor to the office of priefthoo Jews In th Chriftia church fucceeded in the plac Jews wh wer amon the offic of the lewite as minifter pricfts an in th of deacon amon fervant th to th Ayliffe's Parergon 2. A prieft: ufed in contempt Levi‘ticar. adj. [from lewite. to the levites; makin Belong part of th religion of the Jews Ayliffe Le'viry. . f. [levitas, Latin. 1. Lightnefs; not heavinels; the qualit by which any body has lefs weight tha another He gave the form of lewity to that which afcended to that which defcended, the form of gravity Raleigh This bubble, by reafon of its comparative /ewit to the fluidity that enclofes it, would afcend to th top 2.-Inconftancy; changeablenefs Bentley They every day broached fome new thing; whic fcfilefs lewity they did interpret to be their growin in fpiritual perfection Pep . Unfteadinefs ; laxity of mind I unbofom'd all my fecrets to thee Not out of /ewity, but over-power' Milton's Agoniffes By thy requeft 4. ldle pleafure ; vanity He never employed his omnipotence out of lewit or oftentation, but as the neceflities of men required Calany Trifling gaiety; want of ferioufnefs Skap Our graver bufinefs frowns at this lwity Hopton abhorred the licence, and the /Jewisj with which he faw too many cosiupted, C[arem{g,, "That fpirit of religion and ferioufnefs vanifhe and a fpirit of /ewity and libertinifm, infidelity an profanenefs, frarted up in the room of it, Attcrbury 7o LE'VY. @. a. [lever, French. 1. To raife; to bring together: applie to men He refolved to finith the conqueft of Ireland, an to that end /ewied 2 mighty army 2. To raife Dawies on Ircland applied towar. This fenfe {eems improper though Milton's They live in hatred, enmity, and frife, Among themfclves 3. To raife and /ewy cruel wars Milton applied to money Lewy a tribute unto the Loxd of the men of war Numbers Inftead of a fhip, he fhould /ey upon his count Clarendon fuch a fum of money Le'vy. a. /. [from the verb. 1. The aét of raifing money or men. They have already contributed ail their fuperfluous hands, and every new /ewy they make muf be at the expence of their farms and commerce Addijon's State of the War 2. War raifed Treafon has done his worft : nor fteel, nor poifon Malice domeftick, foreign /zwp, nothin Shakefpeare's Macketh Can touch him further LEWD. adj. [lepede, Saxon. i. Lay; not clerical ; from leod, people ignorant It is fometimes grofs Ob folete For /ezuyd men this book Twrit. Bifbap Grofthead So thefe great clerks their little wifdom fhe To mock the /ezvd, as learn'd in this as they Dawics 2. Wicked ; bad ; diflolute If fom be admitte void of learning into the miniftry, eithe or /evd in life, are all the reft t Whitgifte be condemned Before they did opprefs the people, only by colou of a /esvd cuftom, they did afterwards ufe the {am Davits oppreflions by warrant 3. Luftful ; libidinous He is not lolling on a Zezvd love-bed 5 But on his knees at meditation Shakefpeare Then /ezvd Anchemolus he laid in duft Who ftain'd his ftep-dame's bed with impious Tuft By the /lewitical law, both the man and th woman were ftoned to death; fo heinous a crim was adultery This erring mortals /ewvity may call Thi / Le'viroo Levica'rion ComLeveEN: n. /. [levain, French monly, though lefs properly, writte leawen 5 fee LEAVEN. 1. Ferment; that which, being mixed i knots ftrive Lever. # / blaft on the trum t i a which the fold morning water The river Tiber is exprefled lying along, for f vou muft remember to draw rivers, to exprefs thei Pcacham lewelne[s with the earth down c d e f e l f a el travels o'er t Like track of Jeverets i LEVIATHAN Shot from the deadly /ewe/ of a gun Where wigs with wigs, with fword~knous"rword Hooker Dryden Le'wory. adv. [from Jeawd. 1. Wickedly ; naughtily A fort of naughty perfons, lezvdly bent Have pra&tis'd dangeroufly againft your ftate. Shak 2. Libidinoufly; luftfully He lov'd fair lady Eltred, /ezodly lov'd Whofe wanton pleafures him too much did plenfe That quite his heart from Guendeline remov'd Spenfer So lewwdly dull his idle works appear The wretched texts deferve no.comments here . w J r [ / n L Dryden Luftfa licentioufnefs c e f n c d i n s e d r J 1 e f S Th" apartment of the tender youth to reach. D'?"{ Pamianus |