A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Levell, -all, a. Also: lewell, -all, and (Lewenall). [e.m.E. levell (1538), f. the noun.] Level, even, flat; also, level or on the same plane with. Also comb. in levell-wayes, in level fashion, levelly, evenly.1554–5 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 355.
To put away the rede of the kirkyard bray, and making of it levall 1616 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 339.
[He] sall big ane wall … and sall flatt the samen ouer lewell with the present flatt 1619 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 282.
That pairt of the foir wall … to be reasit and maid lewall with the rest 1674 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 200.
The wholle floorings of the haill stories of the saids foir tenements … to be levell and all alongstcomb. 1677 Rec. Old Aberd. I. 130.
That the said mos was abused in that … they cast all the … deid earth … in great heaps and does not spread the samen levell wayes to the effect that the under mos might grow up againe levell
