Definitions
1.VerbTo impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property."to levy a tax"
2.VerbTo raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
3.VerbTo draft someone into military service.
4.VerbTo raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
5.VerbTo wage war.
6.VerbTo raise, as a siege.
7.VerbTo erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
8.NounThe act of levying.
A conscription action.
9.NounA conscription action.
10.NounThe things or people so levied.
A tax.
A tax paid in money.
A tax in kind.
Requisitioned supplies.
A body of conscripts.
11.NounA tax.
A tax paid in money.
A tax in kind.
12.NounA tax paid in money.
13.NounA tax in kind.
14.NounRequisitioned supplies.
15.NounA body of conscripts.
16.NounA shilling.
17.NounThe Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.