Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EV-ER-RE-CUR'RING, a.

Always recurring.

EV-ER-REST'LESS, a.

Always restless.

EV-ER-RE-VER'ED, a.

Always revered.

E-VERSE, v.t. [evers'; L. eversus.]

To overthrow or subvert. [Not used.] Glanville.

E-VER'SION, n. [L. eversio.]

An overthrowing; destruction. Taylor. Eversion of the eye-lids, ectropium, a disease in which the eye-lids are turned outward, so as to expose the red internal tunic. Good.

EV-ER-SMIL'ING, a.

Always smiling.

E-VERT', v.t. [L. everto; e and verto, to turn.]

To overturn; to overthrow; to destroy. [Little used.] Ayliffe.

E-VERT'ED, pp.

Overturned.

E-VERT'ING, ppr.

Overthrowing.

EV-ER-VERD'ANT, a.

Always green. Verplanck.

EV-ER-WAK'ING, a. [ever and waking.]

Always awake.

EV-ER-WAST'ING, a.

Always wasting.

EV-ER-WATCH'FUL, a. [ever and watchful.]

Always watching or vigilant; as, ever watchful eyes. Pope.

EV'ER-Y, a. [Old Eng. everich. Chaucer. It is formed from ever. The Scots write everich and everilk; the latter is the Sax. æfre, and ælc, each. The former may be eac, eaca, addition, or the common termination ich, ig, like.]

Each individual of a whole collection or aggregate number. The word includes the whole number, but each separately stated or considered. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix.

EV'ER-Y-DAY, a. [every and day.]

Used or being everyday; common; usual; as, everyday wit; an everyday suit of clothes.

EV-ER-YOUNG', a. [ever and young.]

Always young or fresh; not subject to old age or decay; undecaying. Joys everyoung, unmixed with pain or fear. Pope.

EV'ER-Y-WHERE, adv. [See Where, which signifies place.]

In every place; in all places.

E'VES-DROP, v. [See EAVES-DROP, the usual spelling.]

E'VES-DROP-PER, n.

One who stands under the eaves or at a window or door, to listen privately to what is said in the house. [See Eaves-dropper.]

E-VES'TI-GATE, v.t. [Not in use.]

See Investigate.

E-VI'BRATE, v.i. [Not in use.]

See Vibrate.

E-VICT', v.t. [L. evinco, evictum; e and vinco, to conquer.]

1. To dispossess by a judicial process, or course of proceedings; to recover lands or tenements by law. If either party be evicted for defect of the other's title. Blackstone.
2. To take away by sentence of law. King Charles.
3. To evince; to prove. [Not used.] Cheyne.

E-VICT'ED, pp.

Dispossessed by sentence of law; applied to persons. Recovered by legal process; applied to things.

E-VICT'ING, ppr.

Dispossessing by course of law.

E-VIC'TION, n.

1. Dispossession by judicial sentence; the recovery of lands or tenements from another's possession, by due course of law.
2. Proof; conclusive evidence. L'Estrange.