2. In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to
equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.
Evenfall
(E"ven*fall`) n. Beginning of evening. "At the quiet evenfall." Tennyson.
Evenhand
(E"ven*hand`) n. Equality. [Obs.] Bacon.
Evenhanded
(E"ven*hand`ed), a. Fair or impartial; unbiased. "Evenhanded justice." Shak. — E"ven*hand`ed*ly,
adv. — E"ven*hand`ed*ness, n. .
Evening
(E"ven*ing) n. [AS. &aemacrfnung. See even, n., and cf. Eve.]
1. 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.
In the ascending scale
Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose.
Milton. Sometimes, especially in the Southern parts of the United States, the afternoon is called evening. Bartlett.
2. The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.
Sometimes used adjectively; as, evening gun. "Evening Prayer." Shak.
Evening flower (Bot.), a genus of iridaceous plants (Hesperantha) from the Cape of Good Hope, with
sword-shaped leaves, and sweet-scented flowers which expand in the evening. — Evening grosbeak
(Zoöl.), an American singing bird (Coccothraustes vespertina) having a very large bill. Its color is olivaceous,
with the crown, wings, and tail black, and the under tail coverts yellow. So called because it sings in the
evening. — Evening primrose. See under Primrose. — The evening star, the bright star of early
evening in the western sky, soon passing below the horizon; specifically, the planet Venus; — called also
Vesper and Hesperus. During portions of the year, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are also evening stars.
See Morning Star.
Evenly
(E"ven*ly) adv. With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.
Evenminded
(E"ven*mind`ed) a. Having equanimity.
Evenness
(E"ven*ness), n. 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.
It had need be something extraordinary, that must warrant an ordinary person to rise higher than his
own evenness.
Jer. Taylor. Evensong
(E"ven*song`) n. [AS. &aemacrfensang.] 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.
Wyclif. Milton.
Event
(E*vent") n. [L. eventus, fr. evenire to happen, come out; e out + venire to come. See Come.]
1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of
his early years." Macaulay.
To watch quietly the course of events.
Jowett (Thucyd. )
There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked.
Eccl. ix. 2. 2. An affair in hand; business; enterprise. [Obs.] "Leave we him to his events." Shak.
