Levant

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

2. A levanter (the wind so called).

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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