Levies is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LEVIES in dictionary:

VERB:
• LEVY, to impose or collect by legal authority
• impose (a tax, fee, or fine)
• impose a tax, fee, or fine on
• seize (property) to satisfy a legal judgement
• enlist (someone) for military service
• begin to wage (war)
NOUN:
• an act of levying a tax, fee, or fine
• a tax raised by levying
• a sum collected as a supplement to an existing subscription
• an item or items of property seized to satisfy a legal judgement.
• an act of enlisting troops
• a body of troops that have been enlisted
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• present 3d person sing. of levy

Words related to LEVIES

levy10 levying14

Words that contain LEVIES

replevies14

How to use LEVIES in a sentence

• In their advanced age they are exempted by the discerning from enterprises that call for a lusty agility, but are drafted into service by those to whom all levies are alike.
• The Sultan levies no duty on the sale or import of slaves.
• Two men of his levies rode at a distance of twenty paces behind them.
• The armies of Aulus Hirtius and Caius Caesar pursued him, and afterwards the levies of Pansa roused the city and all Italy.
• Harry was, a day or two after reaching the camp of Lord Ormonde, sent off to the West to drill some of the newly-raised levies there.
• If France succeeds in strengthening her army by large colonial levies and a strong English landing-force, this superiority would be asserted on land also.
• Poole was a republican town in the Civil War and sent its levies to help to reduce Corfe Castle.
• It was from these classes chiefly that the standing army was recruited, and that great levies might always be made in time of need.
• For we went through the fair land of Kent with our Norsemen and the new levies, and brought back all the folk to Ethelred.
• Further levies were summoned to assemble at Portsmouth at later dates.
• The principal credit was due to the Royal Air Force, but the native levies had also done their part effectively.
• In the interval he will endeavour to disarm the Regular troops, raise new levies, and, by the aid of the latter, punish all concerned in the late abominable outrage.
• And when he got back he could tell them, at least, that the South would pour its willing levies to help them fight in Queensland the common enemy of all.
• Every province prepared its levies and its cannon and its military stores for the deadly strife.
• Here were all the levies that Cuitlahua had collected.
• The Whigs had no resources from their own limited ranks to feed the muster of the popular levies.
• He returned with others of the native levies and they lifted Ballantyne up.
• The King of Denmark repudiated the treaty of Travendal, and invaded Sweden, but his troops were totally routed by the raw levies of the Swedish militia at Helsimburg.
• With her, as with us, the wounded officer of experience goes back to the drill-ground to train the new levies.
• Meanwhile the advance of an English force against the Border, where they occupied Langholm, caused Arran to lead thither the national levies.
• I have a home with her here for the present, till the army from England and the levies from the provinces arrive.
• But Rogers, Stark, and Fritz were of sterner stuff than the levies, and more seasoned than the bulk of regular soldiers.
• The Governor will draw off the levies which might come to their assistance for the work at Louisbourg.

Similar words containing LEVIE without suffix s

levied10 levier9 leviers10 teleview14 unlevied12 replevied15 replevies14 televiews15 televiewed17 televiewer16 televiewers17 televiewing18 televiewings19

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