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Everduring
(Ev`er*dur"ing) a. Everlasting. Shak.
Everglade
(Ev`er*glade) n. 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. [U. S.]
Evergreen
(Ev"er*green) a. (Bot.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered
leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.
Evergreen
(Ev"er*green), n.
1. (Bot.) An evergreen plant.
2. pl. Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration. "The funeral evengreens entwine."
Keble.
Everich
(Ev"er*ich Ev"er*ych), a. [OE. see Every.] each one; every one; each of two. See Every.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
Everichon
(Ev`er*ich*on", Ev`er*ych*on") pron. [OE. everich + oon, on, one. See Every, and One.]
Every one. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Everlasting
(Ever*last"ing) a.
1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immortal; eternal. "The Everlasting
God." Gen. xx1. 33.
2. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong
intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence.
I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
Gen xvii. 8.
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess
The pains and penalties of idleness.
Pope. Syn. — Eternal; immortal, interminable; endless; never- ending; infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual; unintermitted; incessant.
— Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration;
everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern
usage is confined to the future, and implies no intermission as well as no end.
Whether we shall meet again I know not;
Therefore our everlasting farewell take;
Forever, and forever
farewell, Cassius.
Shak. Everlasting flower. Sane as Everlasting, n., 3. — Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus
latifolius) related to the pea; — so called because it is perennial.
Everlasting
(Ev`er*last"ing), n.
1. Eternal duration, past or future; eternity.
From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Ps. xc. 2. 2. (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God.
3. (Bot.) A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as the pearly everlasting
the immortelle of the French, the cudweeds, etc.
4. A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See Lasting.
