(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.
To wage war.
livy
livy
Proper noun
Titus Livius, a Roman historian
navy
navy
adj
(color) Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.
(military) Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.
noun
(color, countable and uncountable) A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.
(countable) A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel.
(countable) A governmental department in charge of a country's sea force.
ovey
pavy
rivy
tavy
tavy
noun
A slash and burn agricultural technique used in Madagascar.
tivy
tivy
adv
With great speed; a huntsman's word or sound.
vady
vary
vary
noun
(obsolete) alteration; change.
verb
(intransitive) Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
(intransitive) To be or act different from the usual.
(intransitive, obsolete) To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.
(of the members of a group, intransitive) To display differences.
(transitive) To change with time or a similar parameter.
(transitive) To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
(transitive) To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
(transitive, music) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See variation.
vayu
veny
veny
noun
(fencing) A strike or blow.
very
very
adj
(literary) True, real, actual.
The same; identical.
With limiting effect: mere.
adv
(with superlatives) Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.
Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
To a great extent or degree.
vimy
viny
viny
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a vine, especially in being twisty.
voyt
vyky
vyse
wavy
wavy
adj
(botany, of a margin) Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
(heraldry) Undé, in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.
(slang) drunk
Full of waves.
Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
Moving to and fro; undulating.
rising or swelling in waves.
noun
(possibly dated) Alternative form of wavey (goose).