levant

To leave hurriedly or in secret to avoid unpaid debts.

A bet made by one who expects to evade paying if he loses.

[capitalized] The region east of Italy lying on and near the Mediterranean, sometimes reckoned as extending east to the Euphrates and as taking in the Nile valley, thus including Greece and Egypt; more specifically, the coast-region and islands of Asia Minor and Syria: a name originally given by the Italians.

An easterly wind blowing up the Mediterranean; a levanter.

Same as levant morocco.

Of or pertaining to or obtained from the Levant.

To run away; decamp.

Used only in the imperative, in the exclamatory phrase levant me, a mild imprecation much like blow me!

Rising. Minsheu, 1617;

Eastern; coming from the direction in which the sun rises.