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Evaporometer

An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.

evasion

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

evasive

Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.

evasiveness

Deliberate vagueness or ambiguity; failing to answer a question while trying to seem as though one is answering.

Evectics

The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body.

Even

In an equal or precisely similar manner; equally; precisely; just; likewise; as well.

Evener

One who, or that which makes even.

Evening

The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sun.

evening bag

a small dressy handbag, richly decorated, carried by women for formal occasions in the evening.

evening-snow

small California annual (Linanthus dichotomus) with white flowers.

eveningwear

attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening.

Evenly

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

Evenness

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

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 horizon

the boundary surface surrounding a black hole, from outside of which nothing inside can be observed, because nothing inside that surface, even light, can escape beyond it. See also black hole and escape velocity.

Eventful

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

Eventless

Without events; tame; monotonous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.

Eventognathi

An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc.

Eventration

A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen. A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude. The act of disemboweling.

Eventual

Coming or happening as a consequence or result; consequential.

Eventuality

The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.

Eventually

In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately.

Eventuate

To come out finally or in conclusion; to result; to come to pass.

Eventuation

The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome.

Ever

At any time; at any period or point of time.

Everest

the highest mountain in the world, situated in Nepal and Tibet; 29,028 feet high.

Everglade

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.

Everlastingness

The state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration.

Everliving

Living always; immoral; eternal; as, the everliving God.

Evermore

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

Evernic

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

Everse

To overthrow or subvert.

Eversion

The act of eversing; destruction.

Eversive

Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of.

Evert

To overthrow; to subvert.

Every

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 number.

Everyday

Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit of clothes.

Everyone

Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.

Everything

Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things.

Everywhere

In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; thoroughly; altogether.

Evet

The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders.

Evict

To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.

Eviction

The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.

Evidence

To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.

Evident

Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.

Evidential

Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity.

Evidentiary

Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential.

Evidently

In an evident manner; clearly; plainly.

Evil

In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

Evil-eyed

Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious.

Evil-favored

Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed.

Evil-minded

Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked.

evildoer

a person who performs an evil deed; one who sins (without repenting).

Evilly

In an evil manner; not well; ill.

Evilness

The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.

Evincement

The act of evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced.

Evincible

Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable.

Evincive

Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.

Evirate

To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood.

Eviscerate

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

Evocate

To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke.

Evocative

Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing.

Evoke

To call out; to summon forth.

Evolute

A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.

Evolutility

The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure.

Evolution

The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, any process of growth or development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

Evolutionary

Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.

Evolutionism

The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.

Evolve

To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.

Evolvement

The act of evolving, or the state of being evolved; evolution.

Evolvent

The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.

Evulsion

The act of plucking out; a rooting out.

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