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rough.—The prefent face of Rome is much more even 
and level than it was formerly. Addifon on Italy. 
To fee a beggar’s brat iii riches flow. 
Adds not a wrinkle to my even brow. Dryden. 
Uniform ; equal to itfelf: 
Lay the rough paths of peevifh nature ev'n, 
And open in each heart a little heaven. Prior. 
Level with ; parallel to.—That the net may be even to 
the midd of the altar. Exodus .—And {hall lay thee even 
with the ground. Luke, xix. 44.—Not having inclination 
any way ; nor leaning to any fide : 
A noble fervant to them ; but he could not 
Carry his honours even. Skakcfpearc. 
Not having any part higher or lower than the other. 
Equal on both fides; fair ; not favouring either : 
Upheld by me,, yet once more he fhall dand 
On even ground againd his mortal foe. Milton. 
Without any thing owed, either good or ill ; out of debt. 
•—In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, 
but in paffing it over, he is fuperior. Bacon.—Even reck¬ 
oning makes lading friends ; and the way to make reck¬ 
onings even is to make them often. South .—Calm; not 
fubjedt to elevation or deprellion ; not uncertain ; 
Defires compos’d, affedfions ever ev'n. 
Tears that delight, and fighs that waft to heaven. Pope. 
Capable to be divided into equal parts; not odd.—Let 
him tell me whether the number of the dars be even or 
odd. Taylor. 
To E'VEN, v. a. To make even. To make out of 
debt; to put in a date in which either good or ill is fully 
repaid: 
Nothing can, or (hall content ray foul, 
’Till I am evened with him wife for wife. Skakefpearc. 
To level; to make level.—Beat, roll, and mow, carpet- 
walks and camomile : for now the ground is- fupple, and 
it will even all inequalities. Evelyn. 
To E'VEN, v.n. To be equal to. Now difufed .—A 
like drange obfervation taketh place hereas at Stonehenge, 
that a redoubled numbering never evencth with the fird. 
Carczo. 
E'VEN, ,adv. [often contradted to ev'n.'} A word of 
drong adertion ; verily. —Even fo did thofe Gauls poflefs 
the coads. Spenfer. 
Dang’rous rocks, 
Which, touching but my gentle veflel’s fide, 
Would fcatter all the fpices on the dream, 
And, in a word, yea even now worth this, 
And now worth nothing. Shakefpeare. 
Notvvithdanding; though it was fo that.—All lean fay 
for thofe pafTages is, that I knew they were bad enough 
to pleafe even when I wrote them. Dryden .—Likewife; 
not only fo, but alfo : 
Here all their rage, and ev'n their murmurs ceafe, 
And facred filence reigns, and univerfal peace. Pope. 
So much as.—Books give the fame turn to our thoughts 
that company does to our converfation, without loading 
our memories, or making us evert fenfible of the change. 
Swift .—A word of exaggeration in which a fecret com- 
parifon is implied ; as, even the great, that is, the great like 
the mean : 
Nor death itfelf can wholly wafh your dains, 
But long contracted filth ev'n in the foul remains. Dryd. 
A term of conceflion.—Since you refined the notion, dnd 
.corrected the malignity, I fhall ev'n let it pafs. Collier. 
E'VENCLADS, a river of England, in the county 
of Oxford, which runs into the Ids, about five miles 
wed of Oxford. 
EUE'NES, a town of Norway ; 180 rriiles north of 
Drontheim. 
Vol. VII. No. 407. 
EVE' 
E'VEN-HAND, f. Equality.—Whofo is out of hope 
to attain to another’s virtue, will feck to come at even-hand 
by depreding another’s fortune. Bacon. 
E'VEN-IIAND'KD, adj. Impartial; equitable: 
Even-handed judice 
Returns the ingredients of our poifon’d chalice 
To our own lips. Shakefpeare. 
E'VENING, f. [tepen, Sax. avend, Dut',] The clefc 
of the day; the beginning of night.—It was the facred 
rule among the Pythagoreans, that they fhould every 
evening thrice run over the addons and affairs of the day. 
Waits on the Mind. 
Mean time the fun defeended from the (kies, 
And the bright evening dar began to rife. Dryden. 
Evening was reprefented by the ancients, in fculpture 
and painting, by the goddefs Diana holding in one hand 
her bow unbent, and in the other a dring, at which a 
couple of hounds were tied, lying on the ground as if 
weary. 
“ Evening red and morning grey, 
Are the figns of a fair day.”— 
How true this proverbial obfervation may be, is uncertain ; 
but we are not the only nation who make ufe of it. The 
French fay, Le rouge fair & blanc matin font rejouir le pelenn • 
“A red evening and white morning rejoice the pilgrim.” 
And fo the Italians, Sera reojfa , e bianco (though fome fay 
negro , black) matino , fanne allegro il pelegrino. 
“The Evening crowns the day.”—Latin, A folis oc- 
cafu non ab ortu, deferibe diem. This proverb is calculated 
to teach that we are not to judge of things or adlions till 
they are brought to their full maturity in the evening or 
conclufion of each refpeftive event. 
E'VENING-STAR,/. [inadronomy.] Hefperus : 
And now of love they treat, till th’ evening-Jlar, 
Love’s harbinger, appeared. Milton. 
E'VENLY, adj. Equally; uniformly ; in an equipoife. 
—In an indnite chaos, nothing could be formed ; no par¬ 
ticles could convene by mutual attraction ; for every one 
there mud have infinite matter around it, and therefore 
mud red for ever, being evenly balanced between indnite 
attractions. Bentley. —Levelly ; without afperities.— A 
palidi clearnefs, evenly and fmoothly fpread ; not overthin 
and wafliy, but of a pretty folid confidence. Wotton. —■ 
Without inclination to either fide ; in a podure parallel 
to the horizon ; horizontally.—The upper face of the 
fea is known to be level by nature, and evenly didant from 
the center, and waxes deeper and deeper the farther one 
faileth from the fliore. Brerewood.- —Impartially ; without 
favour or enmity.—You ferve a great and gracious maf- 
ter, and there is a mod hopeful young prince ; it behoves 
you to carry yourfelf wifely and evenly between them 
both. Bacon. 
E'VENNESS,yi State of being even. Uniformity; 
regularity.—The ether mod readily yieldeth to the revo¬ 
lutions of the celedial bodies, and the making them with 
that evennefs and celerity is requidte in them all. Grew .—• 
Equality of furface ; levelnefs. Freedom from inclina¬ 
tion to either fide.—A crooked dick is not draitened, tin- 
lefs it be bent as far on the clear contrary fide, that fo it 
may fettle itfelf at length in a middle date of evennefs be¬ 
tween them both. Hooker. —Impartiality; equal relpeCt. 
Calmnefs; freedom from perturbation.—Though he ap¬ 
peared to relifh thefe bleffings as much as any man, yet 
he bore the lofs of them, when it happened, with great 
compofure and evennefs of mind. Atterbury. 
E'VENSONG, f. The form of wordiip ufed in the 
evening. 
Thee, ,’chantrefs oft the woods among, 
I woo to hear thy evevfong. - Milton-. ' 
The evening ; the dole of the day,—He tun’d his notes 
both evenfong and morn, Dryden . 
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