\Le"vant\, n Former name of geographical area in the eastern Mediterranean a 1: rising or having risen from rest, as of cattle 2: (obs) eastern v to run off without paying one's debts; to decamp
the former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon and Syria and Israel a heavy morocco often used in bookbinding run off without paying a debt The state of an albino, or of a white child of black parents