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Possessing or exhibiting equity; according to natural right or natural justice; marked by a due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as an equitable decision; an equitable distribution of an estate; equitable men. No two . . . had exactly the same notion of what was equitable. Macaulay.…

Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.

ge; -- applied esp. to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction.

Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request. Pope. Stammered out a few evasive phrases. Macaulay. -- E*va"sive*ly , adv. -- E*va"sive*ness, n.

Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.

A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point.

icles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.

Marked with spots like eyes. Junno's bird, in her eye-spotted train. Spenser.

Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling; as, a fair specimen. The news is very fair and good, my lord. Shak. Fair ball. (Baseball) (a) A ball passing over the home base at the height called for by the batsman, and delivered by the pitcher while wholly within the lines of his position and facing the batsm…

A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false.…

hing, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape. And to her service bind each living creature Through secret understanding of their feature. Spenser.

Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. [R.] Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.

A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.

Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.

Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note.

To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of a joint. Quain. A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects. Watts.

That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card. Totten.

Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies. Shak.

A region of the ocean where fogs are of marked frequency, as near the coast of Newfoundland.

Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise. I am a very foolish fond old man. Shak.