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1613 J. May Declar. Estate of Clothing v. 27 The mill leaues them [sc. rough clothes]..narrower in some places than other, which they by colour to euen out, doe often strain beyond the limitation allowed for drest cloths.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 2 Those things that right reason..had evened out into ranks and kindreds by themselves, have been unhappily hudled and broken.

1854 M. Oliphant Magdalen Hepburn I. v. 71 A brow that knits and evens out its folds with a constant change of expression.

1889 32nd Ann. Rep. Secretary Maine Board Agric. 112 It is better so to plan one's operation as to even out the supplies of farm goods so that we may have a regular supply of fresh butter, eggs and pork in winter as well as summer.

1931 Economist 18 July 127/2 Company practice may rightly go beyond the mere creation of secret reserves, and cover their employment to ‘even out’ fluctuations in earning power.

1967 H. Seton-Watson Russ. Empire i. 22 The poll-tax also had an important effect in evening out the differences between groups of peasants who were not serfs.

2015 Woman's Weekly 4 Aug. 21/3 Applied with a brush, this light foundation gives a lovely glow and evens out blemishes.

1906 Cold Storage & Ice Trade Jrnl. Dec. 51/2 Even though the ice freezes at first in corrugations on the pipe coil plate, my experience this summer in a large plant shows that it all evens out in the end.

1950 A. L. Rowse Eng. of Elizabeth v. 158 Things were beginning to even out a little.

a1994 C. Bukowski What matters Most (1999) 193 He's 24 Looks 38 But it all evens out finally: He's aged a good many other people.

2002 F. Close et al. Particle Odyssey x. 194 After a time the temperature evens out.