levant

adjective3

1. •
   (literary) Eastern.

   • Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. — 1667
2. •
   Rising, of an animal.

   • Crest, a stag regardant levant argent. — 1932
3. •
   Rising or having risen from rest; said of cattle.

noun1

1. •
   A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet.

verb1

1. •
   To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.

   • In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch. — 1885

noun3

1. •
   A cultural region of West Asia, consisting of the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).

   • I see by the newspapers that the Mediterranean Fleet is leaving Malta for the Levant. — 1948
2. •
   A type of leather.

   • [I]t was bound by G. Levitsky […] in turquoise Levant, stamped back and front with the Crosby crest in gold. — 1976
3. •
   An easterly wind, generally in the western Mediterranean Sea.