ppl. a. Also 6 levyled, 7 leveld. [f. LEVEL v. + -ED1.] Made level; placed in a level position; aimed, directed.
1567. Drant, Horace Epist., To Rdr. *vj. A smothe, and plat leuyled poesye.
1607. Shaks., Timon, I. i. 47. No leuell’d malice Infects one comma in the course I hold.
1616. R. C., Times’ Whistle, III. 1098. The infection Of thy high leveld thoughts.
1667. Milton, P. L., VII. 376. Opposite in leveld West was set His mirror.
1769. Sir W. Jones, Pal. Fort., Poems (1777), 23. I … fix’d my level’d telescope on man.
1800. Asiat. Ann. Reg., Misc. Tr., 11/2. They poured in one well-levelled fire, and then a second.
1823. Byron, Juan, VIII. xxxiv. Who kept their … levell’d weapons still against the glacis.
1869. Boutell, Arms & Arm., iii. (1874), 43. The points of six levelled pikes.
1892. Woodbury, Encycl. Photogr., 228. [It] is placed upon the … levelled glass plate.
