Levee

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The act of rising. " The sun's levee." Gray.

2. A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soirée, or evening assembly; a matinée; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river. [U. S. ]

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To attend the levee or levees of. He levees all the great. Young.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river. [U. S.]