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

An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc.

A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen.

Final; ultimate. "Eventual success." Cooper.

The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.

In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately.

To come out finally or in conclusion; to result; to come to pass.

The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome. R. W. Hamilton.

The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.

Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer. The elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Pet. iii. 10.

The state or quality of being impreventable. [R.]

Not preventable; invitable.

Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor.

To thwart; to obstruct. [Obs.] Chapman.

The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. Holder.

One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles. Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers. Coleman.

Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart.

Within or between ventricles.

o meet; to find. [Obs.] And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent. Spenser.

One who invents.