Part 3973

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which is evaporated; vapor.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Steam Engine)</fld> <def>See <er>Vaporization</er>.</def>

<h1>Evaporaive</h1> <Xpage=515>

<hw>E*vap"o*ra*ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>evaporatius</ets>: cf. F. <ets>\'82vaporatif</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; <as>as, the <ex>evaporative</ex> process</as>.</def>

<h1>Evaporator</h1> <Xpage=515>

<hw>E*vap"o*ra`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.</def>

<h1>Evaporometer</h1> <Xpage=515>

<hw>E*vap`o*rom"e*ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>evaporare</ets> to evaporate + <ets>-meter</ets>: cf. F. <ets>\'82vaporm\'8atre</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.</def>

<h1>Evasible</h1> <Xpage=515>

<hw>E*va"si*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That may be evaded.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Evasion</h1> <Xpage=515>

<hw>E*va"sion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>evasio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>\'82vasion</ets>. See <er>Evade</er>.]</ety> <def>The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.</def>

<blockquote>Thou . . . by <b>evasions</b> thy crime uncoverest more. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Shift; subterfuge; shuffling; prevarication; equivocation.</syn>

<h1>Evasive</h1> <Xpage=515>

<hw>E*va"sive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>\'82vasif</ets>. See <er>Evade</er>.]</ety> <def>Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.</def>

<blockquote>Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered <b>evasive</b> of the sly request. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Stammered out a few <b>evasive</b> phrases. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>E*va"sive*ly</wf> , <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>E*va"sive*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Eve</h1> <Xpage=515>

<hw>Eve</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Even</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Evening.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<blockquote>Winter oft, at <b>eve</b> resumes the breeze. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; <as>as, Christians <ex>eve</ex> is the evening before Christmas</as>; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.</def> "On the <i>eve</i> of death."

<i>Keble.</i>

<cs><col>Eve churr</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l)</fld>, <cd>the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also <altname>night churr</altname>, and <altname>churr owl</altname>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Evectics</h1> <Xpage=515>

<hw>E*vec"tics</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ healthy.]</ety> <def>The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Evection</h1> <Xpage=515>