LEVANTED

Verb

levanted

simple past tense and past participle of levant

Source: Wiktionary


LEVANT

Le"vant, a. Etym: [F., p. pr. of lever to raise.] (Law)

Definition: Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.

Le*vant", n. Etym: [It. levante the point where the sum rises, the east, the Levant, fr.levare to raise, levarsi to rise: cf. F. levant. See Lever.]

1. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

2. A levanter (the wind so called).

Le"vant, a.

Definition: Eastern. [Obs.] Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton.

Le*vant", v. i. Etym: [Cf. Sp. levantar to raise, go from one place to another.]

Definition: To run away from one's debts; to decamp. [Colloq. Eng.] Thackeray.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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