To cool; to skim or stir.
A brewer’s cooling vat; a keelfat.
A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel’s frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.
Fig.: The whole ship.
A barge or lighter, used on the Tyne for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.
The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.
A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.
In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship’s keel; in an aëroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
Evening. See Eve, n. 1.
Level, smooth, or equal in surface; not rough; free from irregularities; hence uniform in rate of motion of action; as, even ground; an even speed; an even course of conduct.
Equable; not easily ruffled or disturbed; calm; uniformly self-possessed; as, an even temper.
Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
Balanced; adjusted; fair; equitable; impartial; just to both sides; owing nothing on either side; - said of accounts, bargains, or persons indebted; as, our accounts are even; an even bargain.
Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
Not odd; capable of division by two without a remainder; - said of numbers; as, 4 and 10 are even numbers.
To make even or level; to level; to lay smooth.
To equal.
To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits; to make equal; as, to even the score.
To set right; to complete.
To act up to; to keep pace with.
To be equal.
In an equal or precisely similar manner; equally; precisely; just; likewise; as well.
Up to, or down to, an unusual measure or level; so much as; fully; quite.
As might not be expected; - serving to introduce what is unexpected or less expected.
At the very time; in the very case.
