levy

An enrolment or conscription.

♦ To levy. To raise recruits.

Levy
·vt To raise, as a siege. II. Levy ·vt To gather or exact; as, to levy money. III. Levy ·noun That...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Levy
(1 Kings 4:6, R.V.; 5:13), forced service. The service of tributaries was often thus exacted by king...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
levy
Elevenpence. In the State of Pennsylvania, the eighth part of a dollar, or twelve and a half cents. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.