Levant

Definition of Levant

Le`vant´ Pronunciation: lė`vănt´

a.	1.	(Law) Rising or having risen from rest; - said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
n.	1.	The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
	2.	A levanter (the wind so called).
a.	1.	Eastern. Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. - Milton.
v. i.	1.	To run away from one's debts; to decamp.

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