levé, -e, part., lifted up, raised; up, risen (out of bed). Votre maître est-il —? is your master up?
levée, n.f., gathering, crop (fruits, etc.); levying; raising; (post-office) collection; embankment; causeway, dike; breaking up, removal, rising, recess; swell (of the sea); trick (at cards); (nav.) stanch-sheets. Faire des —s de soldats; to raise soldiers. — de terre; embankment.
lève-gazon, n.m., turfing-iron, turf-cutter.
lever, v.a., to lift, to lift up, to heave, to raise up, to pull up; (hunt.) to start, to flush; to take up, to hold; to remove, to take away; to take out; to gather, to collect; to raise, to levy; to survey, to make a survey. — les oreilles; to prick up one’s ears. — les épaules; to shrug one’s shoulders. — la main sur quelqu’un; to lift up one’s hand against any one. — le camp; to break up the camp. — quelqu’un; to help any one up. — le masque; to throw off the mask. — un plan; to draw, to take a plan; to survey, to make a survey. — une assemblée; to dissolve a meeting. À qui se lève matin, Dieu prête la main; it is the early bird catches the worm.
se lever, v.r., to rise, to get up; to stand up; to break up; to start up; to make a stand; (of the sea) to heave. Il se lève de bon matin; he rises early. Se — précipitamment; to start up.
lever, v.n., to come up, to be up (of plants); to spring up, to rise. Faire — un lièvre; to start a hare.
lever, n.m., rising; levee; surveying. Au — du soleil; at sunrise. — des plans; land-surveying. — de rideau; curtain raiser.
lever-dieu, n.m., (—) (c.rel.) elevation of the host.
léviathan, n.m., leviathan.
levier, n.m., lever; hand-spike; (horl.) arm; crowbar. La force du —; the power of the lever. Le point d’appui d’un —; the fulcrum of a lever.