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The commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the languages of the people of the region and of foreign traders.
A writ of execution at common law.
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The act of raising; elevation; upward motion, as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
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Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.
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A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.
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A levanter (the wind so called).
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A stout twilled silk fabric, formerly made in the Levant.
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One who levants, or decamps.
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A surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull.
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To run away from one's debts; to decamp.
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A strong easterly wind peculiar to the Mediterranean.
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Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
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A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail.
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Of or pertaining to the Levant.
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Eastern.
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A belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Mohammedans.
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An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value.
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A native or inhabitant of the Levant.
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A muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.
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A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.
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