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 Arrest levé. A sentence published, or exemplified.  La main luy est levée. His goods, which were seised, are deliuered backe vnto him.  Au pied levé. Poursuyvre au pied levé. To pursue hard, neere, foot hot, close at the heeles.  Prendre au pied levé. To take at aduantage, or at the worst; to surprise on a suddaine, or before prouision made.  Respondre à pied levé. To answer suddainely, or extempore.  La teste levée. Boldly, confidently, with head lift vp; or holding vp the head, as one that hath gotten the better of his aduersarie.

Leveche: f. A South-west wind.

Levée: f. A banke, or causey raised for the keeping in of a Riuer, or water; also, a leuie, or leuying of money, souldiors, &c; a gathering, or getting in of the profits, or fruits of land; also, a raysing, hoysing, aduancing; and, a rising, as of the Sunne.  Vne levée de bouclier. Much adoe about nothing; a great shew, or much doings, to little purpose; mightie preparations for a meane exploit; a notable coyle, or stirre, when it needs not.

Levement: m. A raysing, rearing, hoysing, aduancing, lifting, or setting vp; also, a leuie, or leuying; also, a leauening.

Lever. To lift, rayse, reare, eleuate, aduance, hoyse, heaue, or set vp; also, to leuie, collect, gather; also, to leauen.  Se Lever. To rise, arise, get, or grow vp.  Lever vn arrest. To publish a sentence, or decree.  Lever boutique. To set vp shop.  Se Lever au Conseil. To goe sit in Counsell.  Lever le cul. Il leur fit lever le cul à. He raised them, or their siege, from.  Lever vn enfant des fons. To christen, or be witneße to, a child at the Font.  Lever des estoffes. To buy, or take vp, stuffes.  Lever la main. To take vp a tricke at Cards.  Lever la main à quelqu'un. To restore vnto him the goods taken from him by order, or authoritie.  Lever en sa main. To take into his hands, or possession; to seize vpon, in his owne right.  Lever le masque à. To vnmaske; lay open, discouer.  Lever le menton à. To hearten, harden, imbolden, incourage, aßure.  Lever le nez. To take courage, or heart at grasse, to plucke vp the heart.  Lever de sentinelle. To relieue a Sentinell, to put one in his roome; hence also, to dislodge.  Lever la table. To take away.  Lever matin n'est pas heur, mais desjuner est le plus seur: Prov. Looke Matin. Il a beau se lever tard qui a le bruit de se lever matin: Prov. He may well enough rise late thats thought to rise early; The like is;  Qui a bruit de se lever matin peut dormir iusques à soir: Prov. He thats well thought of, may play the knaue long before he be suspected, or detected a knaue; (so many men that are not as they seeme to be, beguile those, who seeing no hurt suspect none.)

Levesche. as Leveche; also, common Louage, Lombardie Louage; also, the hearbe Alexanders.

Levesse. as Levesche. Leveton: m. Yeast, or Barme.

Leveur: m. A rayser, lifter, aduancer, hoyser, or heauer vp of; also, a leuier, collector, gatherer; also, a leauener. Leveure de biere: f. Yeast.

Levier: m. A Leauer; an Jron crow, or woodden barre to lift vp things with.

Leville: f. Darnell; or, Tares.

Levis: m. isse: f. Foulding, or to be foulded vp; whence; Table Levisse, &c. Levistic: m. Louage; or, as Livesche. Leur. Their; C'est leur maison; also, theirs; as, C'est le leur; and, their owne, or their own meanes; whence, Ils n'ont moyen de le faire du leur; also, them; as in, Il leur a dict. Levrault: m. A Leueret, or young Hare; also, a Romane beame, or stelleere; See Crochet. Il y a levrault au croc. There is some good prey to be caught, stuffe to be found, thing to be had.

Levre: f. A Lip; (also, an Otter. ¶Savoyard.)  Levre fenduë. A Hare-lip, or Hare-mouth.  Attaindre du bout des levres. To touch daintily, or but sleightly.  Bailler mornifle sur les levres. To giue a cuffe on the mouth, a thumpe on the lips.  Bailler mornifle sur les levres du Roy. To coyne false money, to make false coyne.  Femme qui ses levres mord, &c; Looke Femme. Levresque: com. Greyhound like; of, or belonging to, a Greyhound.

Levrete: f. as Levrette. Levreté: m. ée: f. Kindled, as a young Leueret.  Levretée. A Hare-lipt, or blabber-lipt wench; also, a wench that hath beene buggared by a Greyhound.

Levreteau: m. A Leueret; a young, or little Hare.

Levreter. To kindle young Hares; or, a Hare to kindle.

Levreton: m. A Greyhound-whelpe, a young Greyhound.

Levrette: f. A Greyhound bitch; also, a most lasciuious and incontinent wench, a common hackney, a bitch-fox; also, a little tender lip.

Levrier: m. A Greyhound.  Levrier d'attache. An Irish Greyhound, a great Greyhound.  Pain de levrier. A Chesse-loafe; bread made of the coursest of corne.  Souppes de levrier. Brewesse made of course browne bread, moistned with the last, and worst fat of the beefe-pot.  Ha levrier. (A voice of incouragement, or excitation;) hoo, now now, hoe dog, hoe well done dog; also (a voice of incensing such as be readie to fall together by the eares.) Now lads, to it boyes, cuffe or cudgell one another and spare not.  Elle pense que de toute taille bon levrier. ''She is so indifferent, or generall in the intertainment of seruants, that (so they be young and lustie) she cares not of what proportion, or stature they be. Looke'' Taille. Il n'est chasse que de vieux lievriers: Prov. Old hounds doe hunt the surest; old Greyhounds bite the sorest.  Oncques mastin n'aima levrier: Prov. Neuer did clowne affect a Gentleman; nor a rude peasant a ciuill president.

Levriere: f. A Greyhound bitch.

Levron: m. A young, or little, Greyhound; also, a young wanton fellow that (as a young Greyhound) minds nothing but pleasure.

Leurre: f. A (Faulkoners) Lure. Oyseaux, ou faulcons de leurre. Are, properly, seuen, Le Faulcon gentil, Pelerin, Tartaire, Gerfault, Sacre, Lasnier, & le Tunicien.