(1):

(n.) The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

(2):

(n.) A levanter (the wind so called).

(3):

(a.) Eastern.

(4):

(a.) Rising or having risen from rest; - said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.

(5):

(v. i.) To run away from one's debts; to decamp.