even adj. (the foll. uses are now obs.)
1.
uniform
R2 III. iv. 36.
2.
direct,
straightforward
H5 IV. viii. 114
“in plain shock and
play of battle,”
Ham. II. ii. 304
“be and direct with
me.”
3.
exact, precise
All'sW. V. iii. 331
“the even truth.”
4.
equable, unruffled
1H4 I. iii. 286, H5 II. ii. 3, H8 III. i. 37*
“I know my life so ,” 165*
“as as a calm,”
Cæs. II. i.
133*
“The virtue of our
enterprise,”
Ham. IV. iii. 7
“To bear all smooth and
even.”
5.
equally balanced
Cor. IV. vii. 37, Mac.
III. IV. 10
6.
as sb. “the of it,” the
plain truth (cf. 3 above), the long and the short of
it H5 II. i. 128.
