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levant

levant is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
  2. 2.A levanter (the wind so called).
  3. 3.Eastern. [Obs.] Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton.
  4. 4.To run away from one's debts; to decamp. [Colloq. Eng.] Thackeray.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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