adj. (American).—Well-balanced; steady; judicious.
1870. Golden City (San Francisco: quoted in Orchestra), 12 Aug. Miss Markam is rather quiet off the stage, agreeable in conversation, and doesn’t care much what the censorious world says about her—and herein her HEAD IS LEVEL!
1870. Orchestra, 12 Aug. To tell a woman her HEAD IS LEVEL is apparently a compliment in America, though to call a man a ‘square head’ is to insult him in France.
1879. BRET HARTE, Gabriel Conroy, xxxix. A strong suspicion among men whose HEADS are LEVEL.
1895. New York Press, in Pall Mall Gazette, 13 Sept., p. 7. This people had taken him for a gallant, persistent, even-tempered LEVEL-HEADED gentleman.
