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v. t.
To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
n.
A whitish, reddish, or yellowish, transparent or translucent mineral, allied to chabazite.
v. t.
To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution.
v. t.
To gather or exact; as, to levy money.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Levy
n.
A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
n.
One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the 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.
n.
That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.
v. t.
To raise, as a siege.
imp. & p. p.
of Levy
v. t.
To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.
n.
The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.
n.
The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.
v. t.
To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
n.
Alt. of Levynite
v. t.
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc.
v. t.
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.
v. i.
To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods.
n.
The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution.
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