Evasion, 1) shuffling excuse, subterfuge: Meas. I, 1, 51. Troil. II, 3, 123. Lr. I, 2, 137.
2) any trick or artifice in disputing: “there can be no e. to blench from this and to stand firm by honour,” Troil. II, 2, 67. “his --s have ears thus long,” II, 1, 75.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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