Index of English words, starting with "le"

(1) - Levanter (n.) A strong easterly wind peculiar to the Mediterranean.
(2) - Levanter (v.) One who levants, or decamps.

(1) - Levantine (n.) A stout twilled silk fabric, formerly made in the Levant.
(2) - Levantine (n.) A native or inhabitant of the Levant.
(3) - Levantine (n.) Of or pertaining to the Levant.

(1) - Levator (n.) A surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull.
(2) - Levator (n.) A muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.

(1) - Levee (v. t.) To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.
(2) - Levee (n.) An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
(3) - Levee (v. t.) To attend the levee or levees of.
(4) - Levee (n.) A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.
(5) - Levee (n.) The act of rising.