Levant /(lē"vant)/

Le·vant

Levant

a.
  1. Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant. (Law)

Levant

n.
  1. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
  2. A levanter (the wind so called).

Levant

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

Levant

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