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n. [ F. alevin, OF. alever to rear, fr. L. ad + levare to raise. ] Young fish; fry. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alleviated; p. pr. & vb. n. Alleviating. ] [ LL. alleviare, fr. L. ad + levis light. See Alegge, Levity. ] 1. To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [ of flying birds ]. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters. Bp. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To extenuate; to palliate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He alleviates his fault by an excuse. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To lessen; diminish; soften; mitigate; assuage; abate; relieve; nullify; allay. -- To Alleviate, Mitigate, Assuage, Allay. These words have in common the idea of relief from some painful state; and being all figurative, they differ in their application, according to the image under which this idea is presented. Alleviate supposes a load which is lightened or taken off; as, to alleviate one's cares. Mitigate supposes something fierce which is made mild; as, to mitigate one's anguish. Assuage supposes something violent which is quieted; as, to assuage one's sorrow. Allay supposes something previously excited, but now brought down; as, to allay one's suffering or one's thirst. To alleviate the distresses of life; to mitigate the fierceness of passion or the violence of grief; to assuage angry feeling; to allay wounded sensibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 made less severe or intense. unmitigated
Syn. -- eased, relieved, mitigated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ LL. alleviatio. ] 1. The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to alleviate. -- n. That which alleviates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, alleviates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Alleviative. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ambo both + laevus left. ] Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. boulevard, boulevart, fr. G. bollwerk. See Bulwark. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris. F. Harrison. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., fr. bouleverser to overthrow. ] Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cant an external angle + lever a supporter of the roof timber of a house. ] [ Written also cantaliver and cantilever. ] 1. (Arch.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Engin.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cantalever bridge, a bridge in which the principle of the cantalever is applied. It is usually a trussed bridge, composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers which they overhang, thus forming cantalevers which meet over the space to be spanned or sustain a third portion, to complete the connection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Cantalever. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ F., p. p. of champlever to engrave. See 3d Champ, Camp, Lever a bar. ] (Art) Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enameled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, designating the process of making such enamel work. -- n. A piece of champlevé enamel; also, the process or art of making such enamel work; champlevé work. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Heb. ] The third month of the Jewish civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, occupying a part of November and a part of December; -- same as Kislev.
Syn. -- Kislev. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Origin uncertain. Cf. OE. cliver eager, AS. clyfer (in comp.) cloven; or clifer a claw, perh. connected with E. cleave to divide, split, the meaning of E. clever perh. coming from the idea of grasping, seizing (with the mind). ] 1. Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T would sound more clever
To me and to my heirs forever. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Well-shaped; handsome. “The girl was a tight, clever wench as any was.” Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Good-natured; obliging. [ U. S. ]

Syn. -- See Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat clever. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a clever manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never was man so clever absurd. C. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

Syn. -- See Ingenuity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Cleave to adhere, Clavel. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Surv.) A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the
Troughton level, from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the
Gavatt level. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. elevatus, p. p. ] Elevated; raised aloft. [ Poetic ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Elevated p. pr. & vb. n. Elevating ] [ L. elevatus, p. p. of elevare; e + levare to lift up, raise, akin to levis light in weight. See Levity. ] 1. To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy. [ Colloq. & Sportive ] “The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To lessen; to detract from; to disparage. [ A Latin meaning ] [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

To elevate a piece (Gun.), to raise the muzzle; to lower the breech.

Syn. -- To exalt; dignify; ennoble; erect; raise; hoist; heighten; elate; cheer; flush; excite; animate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being elevated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. elevatio: cf. F. élévation. ] 1. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation. “Degrees of elevation above us.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

His style . . . wanted a little elevation. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Astron.) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Dialing) The angle which the style makes with the substylar line. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Gunnery) The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o&unr_; sight; -- distinguished from direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Drawing) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography. [ 1913 Webster ]

Angle of elevation (Geodesy), the angle which an ascending line makes with a horizontal plane. --
Elevation of the host (R. C. Ch.), that part of the Mass in which the priest raises the host above his head for the people to adore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. élévateur. ] 1. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cage or platform (called an elevator car) and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Aëronautics) A movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Elevator head,
Elevator leg, and
Elevator boot, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator. [ 1913 Webster ] --
Elevator shoes, shoes having unusually thick soles and heels, designed to make a person appear taller than he or she actually is. [ PJC ]

a. Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. élévatoire. ] (Surg.) See Elevator, n. (e). Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. élever to raise, bring up. ] A pupil; a student. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. enleven, AS. endleofan, endlufon, for nleofan; akin to LG. eleve, ölwe, ölwen, D. elf, G. elf, eilf, OHG. einlif, Icel. ellifu, Sw. elfva, Dan. elleve, Goth. ainlif, cf. Lith. vënolika; and fr. the root of E. one + (prob.) a root signifying “to be left over, remain, ” appearing in E. loan, or perh. in leave, v. t., life. See One, and cf. Twelve. ] Ten and one added; as, eleven men. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Cricket & American Football) The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an examination taken by 11 and 12 year old students in England to select suitable candidates for grammar school; -- now no longer used.
Syn. -- 11-plus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. AS. endlyfta. See Eleven. ] 1. Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Eleven. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. guilloire (fr. guiller to work, ferment) + E. vat. ] A vat for fermenting liquors. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not leviable; incapable of being imposed, or collected. [ R. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Law) Not capable of being replevied. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Heb. ] the third month of the Jewish civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, occupying a part of November and a part of December. [ Also spelled Chislev. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., fr. levare to raise. ] (Rom. Myth.) A goddess who protected newborn infants. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., p. pr. of lever to raise. ] (Law) Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. levante the point where the sun rises, the east, the Levant, fr. levare to raise, levarsi to rise: cf. F. levant. See Lever. ] 1. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A levanter (the wind so called). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Eastern. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Sp. levantar to raise, go from one place to another. ] To run away from one's debts; to decamp. [ Colloq. Eng. ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Levant, v. ] One who levants, or decamps. [ Colloq. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Levant, n. ] A strong easterly wind peculiar to the Mediterranean. W. H. Russell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. levantin, or It. levantino. See Levant, n. ] Of or pertaining to the Levant. J. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]