Horizontal; coinciding with the plane of the horizon. To be perfectly level is to be exactly horizontal.

Even; flat; not having one part higher than another; not ascending or descending; as a level plain or field; level ground; a level floor or pavement. In common usage, level is often applied to surfaces that are not perfectly horizontal, but which have no inequalities of magnitude.

Even with any thing else; of the same height; on the same line or plane.

Equal in rank or degree; having no degree of superiority. Be level in preferments, and you will soon be level in your learning.

To make horizontal.

To make even; to reduce or remove inequalities of surface in any thing; as, to level a road or walk.

To reduce or bring to the same height with something else. And their proud structures level with the ground.

To lay flat; to reduce to an even surface or plain. He levels mountains, and he raises plains.

To reduce to equality of condition, state or degree; as, to level all ranks and degrees of men.

To point, in taking aim; to elevate or depress so as to direct a missile weapon to an object; to aim; as, to level a cannon or musket.

To aim; to direct; as severe remarks leveled at the vices and follies of the age.

To suit; to proportion; as, to level observations to the capacity of children.

To accord; to agree; to suit.

To aim at; to point a gun or an arrow to the mark.

To aim at; to direct the view or purpose. The glory of God and the good of his church, ought to be the mark at which we level.

To be aimed; to be in the same direction with the mark. He raised it till he level’d right.

To aim; to make attempts. Ambitious York did level at thy crown.

To conjecture; to attempt to guess.

A horizontal line, or a plane; a surface without inequalities.

Rate; standard; usual elevation; customary height; as the ordinary level of the world.