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plural levants
A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet. examples
third-person singular simple present levants, present participle levanting, simple past and past participle levanted
To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts. quotations examples
In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch.
1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 16
He died of a Tuesday. Got the run. Levanted with the cash of a few ads.
1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
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(heraldry) Rising, of an animal. quotations examples
Crest, a stag regardant levant argent.
1932, Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset
[...] crest a raven levant sable issant out of a […]
1977, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, Proceedings
[...] neck grene acornes proper wounded on his left sholder and at her feet there is a fawcon issant levant argent out of a crowne or.
1980, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History
(law) Rising or having risen from rest; said of cattle. examples
(poetic) Eastern. quotations examples
Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.
1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,