"Levee" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
An embankment or artificial mound of earth constructed along the mar-gin of a river, to confine tbe stream to its natural channel or prevent Inundation or overflow. State v. New orleans & N. E. R. Co., 42 La. Ann. 138, 7 South. 226; Royse v. Evansville & T. II. R. Co., 160 Ind. 592
To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee
a river.
An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along
the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
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.
To attend the levee or levees of.
The act of rising.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
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búhang - Opening, gap, break, breach in a—dam,—dyke,—embankment,—levee, etc.; to open, breach a dam, etc. Buhángi ang kahón sang humáy. …
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