Definition: The act of rising.
Definition: 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.
Definition: To attend the levee or levees of.
Definition: An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along
the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
Definition: To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee
a river.