Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 57

Evasible (a.) That may be evaded.

Evasion (n.) The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

Evasive (a.) Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.

Eve (n.) Evening.

Eve (n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.

Evectics (n.) The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body.

Evection () The act of carrying up or away; exaltation.

Evection () An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1¡ 20'.

Evection () The libration of the moon.

Even (n.) Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

Even (a.) Level, smooth, or equal in surface; not rough; free from irregularities; hence uniform in rate of motion of action; as, even ground; an even speed; an even course of conduct.

Even (a.) Equable; not easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self-possessed; as, an even temper.

Even (a.) Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.

Even (a.) Balanced; adjusted; fair; equitable; impartial; just to both side; owing nothing on either side; -- said of accounts, bargains, or persons indebted; as, our accounts are even; an even bargain.

Even (a.) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.

Even (a.) Associate; fellow; of the same condition.

Even (a.) Not odd; capable of division by two without a remainder; -- said of numbers; as, 4 and 10 are even numbers.

Evened (imp. & p. p.) of Even

Evening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Even

Even (v. t.) To make even or level; to level; to lay smooth.

Even (v. t.) To equal

Even (v. t.) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.

Even (v. t.) To set right; to complete.

Even (v. t.) To act up to; to keep pace with.

Even (v. i.) To be equal.

Even (a.) In an equal or precisely similar manner; equally; precisely; just; likewise; as well.

Even (a.) Up to, or down to, an unusual measure or level; so much as; fully; quite.

Even (a.) As might not be expected; -- serving to introduce what is unexpected or less expected.

Even (a.) At the very time; in the very case.

Evene (v. i.) To happen.

Evener (n.) One who, or that which makes even.

Evener (n.) In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.

Evenfall (n.) Beginning of evening.

Evenhand (n.) Equality.

Evenhanded (a.) Fair or impartial; unbiased.

Evening (n.) The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum.

Evening (n.) The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.

Evenly (adv.) With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.

Evenminded (a.) Having equanimity.

Evenness (n.) The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition.

Evensong (n.) A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong.

Event (n.) That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.

Event (n.) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

Event (n.) The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates.

Event (v. t.) To break forth.

Eventerate (v. t.) To rip open; todisembowel.

Eventful (a.) Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.

Eventide (n.) The time of evening; evening.

Eventilate (v. t.) To winnow out; to fan.

Eventilate (v. t.) To discuss; to ventilate.

Eventilation (n.) The act of eventilating; discussion.

Eventless (a.) Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.

Eventognathi (n. pl.) An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc.

Eventration (n.) A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen.

Eventration (n.) A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude.

Eventration (n.) The act af disemboweling.

Eventtual (a.) Coming or happening as a consequence or result; consequential.

Eventtual (a.) Final; ultimate.

Eventtual (a.) Dependent on events; contingent.

Eventualities (pl. ) of Eventuality

Eventuality (n.) The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.

Eventuality (n.) Disposition to take cognizance of events.

Eventually (adv.) In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately.

Eventuated (imp. & p. p.) of Eventuate

Eventuating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eventuate

Eventuate (v. i.) To come out finally or in conclusion; to result; to come to pass.

Eventuation (n.) The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome.

Ever (adv.) At any time; at any period or point of time.

Ever (adv.) At all times; through all time; always; forever.

Ever (adv.) Without cessation; continually.

Everduring (a.) Everlasting.

Everglade (n.) A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida.

Evergreen (a.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.

Evergreen (n.) An evergreen plant.

Evergreen (n.) Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.

Everich (a.) Alt. of Everych

Everych (a.) each one; every one; each of two. See Every.

Everichon (pron.) Alt. of Everychon

Everychon (pron.) Every one.

Everlasting (a.) Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal.

Everlasting (a.) Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence.

Enerlasting (n.) Eternal duration, past of future; eternity.

Enerlasting (n.) (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God.

Enerlasting (n.) A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle of the French, the cudweeds, etc.

Enerlasting (n.) A cloth fabic for shoes, etc. See Lasting.

Everlastingly (adv.) In an everlasting manner.

Everlastingness (n.) The state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration.

Everliving (a.) Living always; immoral; eternal; as, the everliving God.

Everliving (a.) Continual; incessant; unintermitted.

Evermore (adv.) During eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at all times; -- often used substantively with for.

Evernic (a.) Pertaining to Evernia, a genus of lichens; as, evernic acid.

Everse (v. t.) To overthrow or subvert.

Eversion (n.) The act of eversing; destruction.

Eversion (n.) The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.

Eversive (a.) Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of.

Everted (imp. & p. p.) of Evert

Everting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evert

Evert (v. t.) To overthrow; to subvert.

Evert (v. t.) To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.

Every (a. & a. pron.) All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber.

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