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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典
 Le·vant /ləˈvænt/
 (vi.)逃匿
From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Le·vant a.  Law Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Le·vant n.
 1. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
 2. A levanter (the wind so called).
From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Le·vant a. Eastern. [Obs.]
    Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.   --Milton.
From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Le·vant v. i.  To run away from one's debts; to decamp. [Colloq. Eng.]
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0
 Levant
      n 1: a heavy morocco often used in bookbinding [syn: Levant
            morocco]
      2: the former name for the geographical area of the eastern
         Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon and Syria
         and Israel
      v : run off without paying a debt