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