Levant

Levant - Other Definitions

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