(US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
The act of levying.
The tax, property or people so levied.
verb
(law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
To draft someone into military service.
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
To raise, as a siege.
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
