Levant
Levant (lē"vant) , adjective
[French, present participle of lever to raise.]
(Law) Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
Levant (le*vant") , noun
[Italian levante the point where the sun rises, the east, the Levant, from levare to raise, levarsi to rise: compare French levant. See Lever.]
1.
The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
2.
A levanter (the wind so called).
Levant (lē"vant; 277) , adjective
Eastern. [Obsolete]
Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.
Levant (le*vant") , intransitive verb
[Compare Sp. levantar to raise, go from one place to another.]
To run away from one's debts; to decamp. [Colloquial English] — Thackeray