Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LEV'EL, v.t.

1. To make horizontal.
2. To make even; to reduce or remove inequalities of surface in any thing; as, to level a road or walk.
3. To reduce or bring to the same highth with something else. And their proud structures level with the ground. – Sandys.
4. To lay flat; to reduce to an even surface or plane. He levels mountains, and he raises plains. – Dryden.
5. To reduce to equality of condition, state or degree; as, to level all ranks and degrees of men.
6. To point, in taking aim; to elevate or depress so as to direct a missile weapon to an object; to aim; as, to level a cannon or musket.
7. To aim; to direct; as, severe remarks leveled at the vices and follies of the age.
8. To suit; to proportion; as, to level observations to the capacity of children.