Levant

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Eastern.

II. Levant ·noun A levanter (the wind so called).

III. Levant ·vi To run away from one's debts; to Decamp.

IV. Levant ·noun The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

V. Levant ·adj Rising or having risen from rest;

— said of cattle. ·see Couchant and levant, under Couchant.

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