Levant
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
(2): ( n.) A levanter (the wind so called).
(3): ( a.) Eastern.
(4): ( a.) Rising or having risen from rest; - said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
(5): ( v. i.) To run away from one's debts; to decamp.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
E . the Rising), a name given to the E. of the Mediterranean and the regions adjoining by the western peoples of the Mediterranean.
