the act of rising.-a morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.-to attend the levee or levees of.-an embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.-to keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.