Thesaurus: levant

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1. a. Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
2. n. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
3. n. A levanter (the wind so called).
4. a. Eastern.
5. v. i. To run away from one's debts; to decamp.
6. n. a heavy morocco often used in bookbinding
7. v. run off without paying a debt
8. Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant. 1. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters. 2. A levanter (the wind so called). Eastern. [Obs.] Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton. To run away from one's debts; to decamp. [Colloq. Eng.] Thackeray.
9. Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. SeeCouchant and levant, under Couchant.
10. n. a heavy morocco often used in bookbinding n. the former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel v. run off without paying a debt