LEVANT

a. n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.

2.
n.

The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

3.
n.

A levanter (the wind so called).

4.
a.

Eastern. [Obs.] Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton.

5.
v.

To run away from one's debts; to decamp. [Colloq. Eng.] Thackeray.


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