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- English Word Evaporometer Definition An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.
- English Word Evasible Definition That may be evaded.
- English Word Evasion Definition The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
- English Word Evasive Definition Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
- English Word Eve Definition Evening.
- English Word Eve Definition 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.
- English Word Evectics Definition The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body.
- English Word Evection Definition The act of carrying up or away; exaltation.
- English Word Evection Definition 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'.
- English Word Evection Definition The libration of the moon.
- English Word Even Definition Evening. See Eve, n. 1.
- English Word Even Definition 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.
- English Word Even Definition Equable; not easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self-possessed; as, an even temper.
- English Word Even Definition Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
- English Word Even Definition 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.
- English Word Even Definition Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
- English Word Even Definition Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
- English Word Even Definition Not odd; capable of division by two without a remainder; -- said of numbers; as, 4 and 10 are even numbers.
- English Word Even Definition To make even or level; to level; to lay smooth.
- English Word Even Definition To equal
- English Word Even Definition 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.
- English Word Even Definition To set right; to complete.
- English Word Even Definition To act up to; to keep pace with.
- English Word Even Definition To be equal.
- English Word Even Definition In an equal or precisely similar manner; equally; precisely; just; likewise; as well.
- English Word Even Definition Up to, or down to, an unusual measure or level; so much as; fully; quite.
- English Word Even Definition As might not be expected; -- serving to introduce what is unexpected or less expected.
- English Word Even Definition At the very time; in the very case.
- English Word Evene Definition To happen.
- English Word Evened Definition of Even