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And what a trifle is a moment’s breath. 
Laid in the fcale with everlafing death ! Denham. 
EVERLAST'ING,/ Eternity; eternal duration whe¬ 
ther paft or future.—From everlafing to evcrlajling thou 
art God. Pfal. xc. 2.-^Eternal Being: 
Or that the Everlajling had not fixed 
His cannon ’gainft felf-flaughter. Shakefpeare. 
EVERLAST'ING, /. in botany. See Gnaphahum. 
EVERLAST'ING PEA,/ in botany. SeeLATHYitus. 
EVERLAST'INGLY, adv. Eternally : without end : 
I’ll hate him everlafingly, 
That bids me be of comfort any more. Shakcfpeare. 
EVERLAST'INGNESS, / Eternity; perpetuity; 
an indefinite duration; 
Nothing could make me fooner to confefs. 
That this world had an tverlafingnefs. 
Than to confiderthat a year is run 
Since both this lower world’s and the fun’s fun, 
Did fet. Donne. 
EVERLIV'ING, adj. Living without end; immortal; 
eternal ; inceffant.—The inftinCt of brutes and infeCts 
can be the effeCt of nothing elfe than the wifdom and 
Ikill of a powerful evtrliving agent. Newton. 
Is not from hence the way, that leadeth right 
To that moft glorious houfe, thatglift’reth bright 
With burning ftars and overliving fires t Spenfer. 
EVERMO'RE, adv. Always; eternally. More fee ms 
an expletive accidentally added, unlefs it fignified origi¬ 
nally from this time: as, evermore, always , henceforward ; 
but this fenfe has not been ftriCtly preferved : 
Sparks by nature evermore afpire, 
Which makes them now to fuch a highnefs flee. Davies. 
EV'ERNESS, / Everlaftingnefs. Bailey. 
EVERO'PEN, adj. Never clofed; nor at any time 
Unit.—God is the great eye of the world, always watch¬ 
ing over our actions, and has an everopen ear to all our 
words. Taylor. 
EVERPLEA'SING, adj. Delighting at all times; ne¬ 
ver ceafing to give pleafure : 
Forfaking Sheria’s everpleafng ftiore. 
The winds to Marathon the virgin bore. Pope. 
EVERRI'CULUM,/ [ everro , Lat. to fweep away.3 A 
furgical inftrument ufed to clear the bladder from gravel. 
E'VERSBERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Lower Rhine, and duchy of Weftphalia ; feven 
miles weft of Brilon. 
To EVER'SE, v. a. [ everfus , Lat.] To overthrow; to 
fubvert; to deftroy. Not ufed. —The foundation of this 
principle is totally overfed by the ingenious commentator 
upon immaterial beings. Glanville. 
EV'ERSHOT, a fmall town in Dorfetfhire, 128 miles 
from London, thirteen from Dorchefter, and eight from 
Yeovil. It ftands on the borders of Somerfetfliire, and 
has a fair annually for horned cattle on the 12th of May ; 
and a weekly market was formerly held for corn, &c. but 
has been difufed for upwards of fifty years. Here is a 
free grammar-fchool, and a charity-fchool. The chapel 
is a large ancient ftrudtuse, with a high tower. Near it 
the river Frome rifes, which runs to Purbeck bay. 
One mile eaft of Everftiot is Mel bury, the feat of the 
ancient and refpeCted family of the Strartgeways. The 
houfe bears the marks of remote antiquity ; the weft 
part, being of the gothic form, and rifing into a lofty 
tower embattled, befpeaks the age of Henry VII. when, 
moft probably, it was built; the other parts have Grecian 
orders engrafted on the other ftile, which altogether gives 
it an uncommon and piCturefque appearance. Among 
other fuperb and coftly devices, is a quantity of beautiful 
carving in wood, by Gibbons, the famous ftatuary in 
Charles the Second’s reign, which has been noticed by 
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Mr. Horace Walpole in his Anecdotes of Painting. The 
houfe ftands in a beautiful park, abounding in fine old 
timber; near it is the remains of a gothic church, which 
fervesas a chapel to the family, and in which are a num¬ 
ber of very Curious monuments. 
fo EVER'T, r. a. \_evcrto, Lat.] To deftroy ; to over¬ 
throw.—A procefs is valid, if the jurifdiCtion of the 
judge is not yet everted and overthrown. Ay life. 
To EVER'TUATE, v.a. [ e , from, and virtus, Lat. 
virtue.] To deprive of virtue ; to deprive of power. 
EVERWATCHTUL, adj. Always vigilant ; 
Plac’d at the helm he fat, and mark’d the ikies, 
Nor clos’d in fleep his everwatchful eyes. Pope. 
E'VERY,a</ [in old language everich, that is, ever 
each; oepejr ealc, Sax.] Each one of all. Every has 
therefore no plural fignification.—All the congTegatioA 
are holy, every one of them. Num. xvi. 
From pole to pole the thunder roars aloud, 
And broken lightnings flafh from ev'ry cloud. Pope. 
EVE'RY-DAY, adj. Ufual.—I love every-day fenfes, 
every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good 
on holydays, is good for very little. Chef erf eld. —Men of 
genius forget things of common concern, which make no 
flight impreflion in every-day minds. Shenfone. 
EVERY-WHERE, adj. In all places; in each place.— 
If I fend my fon abroad, how is it poffible to keep him 
from vice, which is every-where fo in fafhion ? Locke. 
EVER-YOUNG, adj. Not fubjeCt to old age, or de¬ 
caying ; undecaying : 
Joys ever-young, unmix’d with pain or fear, 
Fill the wide circle of th’ eternal year. Pope. 
EVES-DROPPERS, / See Eaves-droppers. 
E'VESHAM, an ancient and confiderable town in 
Worcefterfliire, pleafantly fituated on a rifing ground 
near the river Avon, over which it has a ftone bridge of 
feven arches, and a convenient harbour for barges. It 
is a borough by prefcription, governed by a mayor, re¬ 
corder, feven aldermen, twelve common councilmen, 
and twenty-four afliftants, with a chamberlain, town- 
clerk, and other officers, having the power of punifliing 
all manner of crimes committed within their liberties, 
except high-treafon. tin former times Evefham was 
famous for its (lately monaftery, being one of thofe whofe 
abbot fat in parliament as a fpiritual lord, and who exer- 
cifed the epifcopal office over all his clergy. One of the 
moft remarkable battles ever fought in England, was 
decided at Eve\Tiam, on the 4th of Auguft, 1265, be¬ 
tween Simon Montfort earl of Leicefter, and prince 
Edward, afterwards Edward I. In this battle the earl 
of Leicefter, and almoft all the barons who had taken up 
arms againft the king, were (lain, and the prince had the 
honour of reftoring his father Henry III. to the throne of 
his anceftors. 
This town commands a moft beautiful profpeCt of that 
expanlive and fertile diftrift called the Vale of Evefham 
or Vale of Gloucefter, which fo much abounds with 
corn, as well as pafture for flieep, that it is reckoned the 
granary of all thofe parts, and runs along the banks of the 
Avon from Tewkfbury to Perfhore, and to Stratford in 
Warwickfhire, and the river is fo far navigable. There 
are three pariih-churches within the borough ; and tbe f re 
was alfoacaflle in farmer times, but no remains of it are 
now left. Here is a well-endowed free grammar-fchool ; 
a charity-fchool for thirty boys, and a few alms-houfes. 
Mrs. Elftob, the famous Saxonift, and author of feveral 
trails, kept one of the day-fchools inthis town. The 
trade is not remarkable on account of any manufacture ^ 
the poor are chiefly employed in gardening,which is very 
extenfive, thetownbeing furroundedwithgarden-grounds, 
the produce of which is taken to Cheltenham, Worcefter, 
Birmingham, and even Briftol and Bath ; the returns of 
which, according to Mr. Tindall, in his Antiquities of 
Evefham, amount on the loweft computation to ten thou- 
fand. 
