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▪ I. unˈlevel, a.
(un-1 7; cf. illevel a.)
1571Digges Pantom. i. xii. D iij b, How vneuen or vnleuell so euer the ground bee. 1644Quarles Sheph. Orac. iii, All things were unlevell, And rude disorder crept into our State. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. 338 The small un-level lying of every Sheet..makes each Sheet incline to the lowest side of the Heap. 1771Ann. Reg., Usef. Projects 109/2 That unlevel pastures may be ploughed down without any injury. 1817–8Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 286 A place situated..upon high and unlevel lands. 1873E. Spon Workshop Receipts Ser. i. 36/1 Should the cloth have got unlevel.
▪ II. unˈlevel, v.
[un-2 6 a.]
trans. To make uneven; to divest of levelness.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xi, [The] place..was so plaine, as there was scarcely any bush, or hillock, either to unlevell, or shadowe it. 1624Quarles Div. Poems, Job xix. 10 His Lunatick affections doe vnleuell, What Heauen created by iust Waight and Measure. 1648Herrick Hesper., To the Fever 8 Come thou not neere that Filme so finely spred, Where no one piece is yet unlevelled. 1703[R. Neve] City & C. Purchaser 189 There are as many places that seem to be unlevel'd, as there are level'd. 1834Southey Doctor xlvi. (1862) 109 In 1723 the church floor and church-yard, which had both been unlevelled by Death's levelling course, were levelled anew. |