adv. [f. LEVEL a. + -LY2.] In a level or horizontal position or direction; on a level; † uniformly; with a level surface.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, II. iii. (1611), 43. [The line] is carried leuelly or equally thorowout the Escocheon without either rising or falling.
1628. Hobbes, Thucyd. (1822), 96. Neither would praises and actions appear so levelly concurrent in many other of the Grecians.
1669. Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., V. 75. Every Shot … equally Oblique or Levelly directed.
1837. New Monthly Mag., L. 470. A dense, slow-moving stream,… flowing levelly on for a few yards.
1851. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., XII. II. 639. See the standing corn shorn levelly low.
1881. Mrs. C. Praed, Policy & P., I. viii. 175. Looking at him levelly with her own large eyes.
