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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.…

Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.

The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.

Sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.

Equality; evenness. Shak.

Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortunes with equanimity.

To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.

al; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, numbers, power, distances, motions, rank, property, etc. There is so great an inequality in the length of our legs and arms as makes it impossible for us to walk…

To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness. Shak.

ting of a standard having a flat base and carrying an adjustable pointer, for gauging the evenness of a surface or its height, or for marking a line parallel with a surface. -- Surface grub (Zoöl.), the larva of the great yellow underwing moth (Triphoena pronuba). It is often destructive to the roots of grasses and ot…

The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.

Unevenness; inequality of surface. Sir I. Newton.

hence, any roughness; unevenness. Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. Dryden.