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ˈevendown, adv. and a. north.
(Often hyphened, or as two words.) Also 4 evenden.
[f. even adv. (sense 5) + down adv.]
A. adv.
†1. Straight down. Obs.
c1340Gaw. & Gr. Kn. 1345 So ryde þay of by resoun bi þe rygge bonez, euenden to þe haunche. c1400Destr. Troy 13285 Thai..derkon euon down on a depe slomur.
2. dial. = ‘Downright’; quite, thoroughly.
1869Lonsdale Gloss. s.v., ‘He threaped ma evven-down’ = He flatly contradicted me. 1876Whitby Gloss. s.v., That's even-down just. 1877Holderness Gloss. s.v., He's even⁓doon fond, is that lad.
B. adj. (dial.)
1. Coming straight down: said of rain.
1801Har'st Rig lxxxiii. (Jam.), Now it turns an eident blast, An even-doun pour. 1822Galt Steam Boat 258 An even-doun thunder-plump came on, that..drookit the Doctor to the skin. 1880Antrim and Down Gloss. s.v., There was an even down pour.
2. a. Of persons, in a good sense: Upright, straightforward; in a bad sense: Downright, out and out. b. Of statements, etc.: Downright, direct. Of things: Downright, sheer; absolute.
1786Burns Twa Dogs 206 But Gentlemen, an' Ladies warst, Wi' ev'n doun want o' wark are curst. 1789Sillar Poems 186 It was a fiction, An ev'n doun perfect contradiction. 1818Scott Rob Roy vi, To tell your honour the even down truth. 1823Petticoat Tales I. 288 (Jam.) I may hae said that Andrew liked a drap drink, but that's no just an even doun drinker. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 63, I never heard such evendown nonsense..in a' my born days. 1834Sir H. Taylor Artevelde i. x. (1849) 33 In the even-down letter you are right. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., He's a strange punct'al man, as even down to the ground as can be. |