See also:

• LEVEE (from Fr. lever, to raise)
• LEVEE (from the French substantival use of lever, to rise; there is no French substantival use of levee in the English sense)

LEVEE (from Fr. See also:

• LEVER (through O. Fr. leveour, levere, mod. levier, from Lat. levare, to lift, raise)
• LEVER, CHARLES JAMES (1806-1872)

lever, to raise)  , an See also:

• EMBANKMENT

embankment which keeps a See also:

• RIVER

river in its channel . A river such as the See also:

• MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi (q.v.), draining a large See also:

• AREA

area, carries a See also:

• GREAT

great amount of sediment from its swifter See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head-streams to the See also:

• LOWER

lower ground . As soon as a stream's velocity is checked, it drops a portion of its load of sediment and spreads an alluvial See also:

• FAN (Lat. vannus; Fr. eventail)

fan in the lower See also:

• PART

part of its course . This deposition of material takes See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place particularly at the sides of the stream where the velocity is least, and the See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks are in consequence raised above the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main channel, so that the river becomes lifted bodily upwards in its See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed, and flows above the level of the surrounding See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . In See also:

• FLOOD (in O. Eng. flod, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Flut, Dutch vloed, from the same root as is seen in " flow," " float ")
• FLOOD, HENRY (1732-1791)

flood-See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time the muddy See also:

• WATER

water flows over the river's banks, where its velocity is at once checked as it flows gently down the See also:

• OUTER

outer See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side, causing more material to be deposited there, and a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long alluvial See also:

• RIDGE (a word. common to many Teutonic languages, meaning " back," whether of a man or an animal, cf. German Rucke)
• RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT (1864- )

ridge, called a natural See also:

• LEVEE (from Fr. lever, to raise)
• LEVEE (from the French substantival use of lever, to rise; there is no French substantival use of levee in the English sense)

levee, to be built up on either side of the stream . These ridges may be wide or narrow, but they slope from the stream's outer banks to the See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain below, and in consequence require careful watching, for if the levee is broken by a " See also:

• CREVASSE

crevasse," the whole See also:

• BODY

body of the river may pour through and flood the country below . In 1890 the Mississippi near New See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

Orleans See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke through the Nita crevasse and flowed eastward with a current of 15 M. an See also:

• HOUR

hour, spreading destruction in its path . The Hwang-ho river in See also:

• CHINA

China is peculiarly liable to these inundations . The word levee is also sometimes used to denote a See also:

• RIVERSIDE

riverside See also:

• QUAY
• QUAY, MATTHEW STANLEY (1833-1904)

quay or landing-place .