E'QUABLE, adjective [Latin oequabilis, from oequus, equal, even, oeguo, to equal, to level.]

1. Equal and uniform at all times, as motion. An equable motion continues the same in degree of velocity, neither accelerated nor retarded.

2. Even; smooth; having a uniform surface or form; as an equable glove or plain.

E'QUABLY, adverb With an equal or uniform motion; with continued uniformity; evenly; as, bodies moving equably in concentric

circles.

E'QUAL, adjective [Latin oegualis, from oequus, equal even, oeguo, to equal perhaps Gr. similar.]

1. Having the same magnitude or dimensions; being of the same bulk or extent; as an equal quantity of land; a house of equal size; two persons of equal bulk; an equal line or angle.

2. Having the same value; as two commodities of equal price or worth.

3. Having the same qualities or condition; as two men of equal rank or excellence; two bodies of equal hardness or softness.

4. Having the same degree; as two motions of equal velocity.

5. Even; uniform; not variable; as an equal temper or mind.

Ye say, the way of the Lord is not equal Ezekiel 16:1.

6. Being in just proportion; as, my commendation is not equal to his merit.

7. Impartial; neutral; not biased.

Equal and unconcerned, I look on all.

8. Indifferent; of the same interest or concern. He may receive them or not, it is equal to me.

9. Just; equitable; giving the same or similar rights or advantages. The terms and conditions of the contract are equal

10. Being on the same terms; enjoying the same or similar benefits.

They made the married, orphans, widows, yea and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves.

11. Adequate; having competent power, ability or means. The ship is not equal to her antagonist. The army was not equal to the contest. We are not equal to the undertaking.

E'QUAL, noun One not inferior or superior to another; having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, etc.

Those who were once his equals, envy and defame him.

It was thou, a man my equal my guide. Psalms 55:13. Galatians 1:14

E'QUAL, verb transitive To make equal; to make one thing of the same quantity, dimensions or quality as another.

1. To rise to the same state, rank or estimation with another; to become equal to. Few officers can expect to equal Washington in fame.

2. To be equal to.

One whose all not equals Edward's moiety.

3. To make equivalent to; to recompense fully; to answer in full proportion.

He answer'd all her cares, and equal'd all her love.

4. To be of like excellence or beauty.

The gold and the crystal cannot equal it. Job 28:17.

EQUAL'ITY, noun [Latin oequalitas.] An agreement of things in dimensions, quantity or quality; likeness; similarity in regard to two things compared. We speak of the equality of two or more tracts of land, of two bodies in length, breadth or thickness, of virtues or vices.

1. The same degree of dignity or claims; as the equality of men in the scale of being; the equality of nobles of the same rank; an equality of rights.

2. Evenness; uniformity; sameness in state or continued course; as an equality of temper or constitution.

3. Evenness; plainness; uniformity; as an equality of surface.

EQUALIZA'TION, noun The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.

E'QUALIZE, verb transitive To make equal; as, to equalize accounts; to equalize burdens or taxes.

E'QUALIZED, participle passive Made equal; reduced to equality.

E'QUALIZING, participle present tense Making equal.

E'QUALLY, adverb In the same degree with another; alike; as, to be equally taxed; to be equally virtuous or vicious; to be equally impatient, hungry, thirsty, swift or slow; to be equally furnished.

1. In equal shares or proportions. The estate is to be equally divided among the heirs.

2. Impartially; with equal justice.

E'QUALNESS, noun Equality; a state of being equal.

1. Evenness; uniformity; as the equalness of a surface.

EQUAN'GULAR, adjective [Latin oequus and angulus.] Consisting of equal angles. [See Equiangular, which is generally used.]

EQUANIM'ITY, noun [Latin oequanimitas; oequus and animus, an equal mind.] Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed, which sustains prosperity without excessive joy, and adversity without violent agitation of the passions or depression of spirits. The great man bears misfortunes with equanimity

EQUAN'IMOUS, adjective Of an even, composed frame of mind; of a steady temper; not easily elated or depressed.

EQUA'TION, noun [Latin oequatio, from oequo, to make equal or level.]

1. Literally, a making equal, or an equal division.

2. In algebra, a proposition asserting the equality of two quantities, and expressed by the sign=between them; or an expression of the same quantity in two dissimilar terms, but of equal value, as 3s=36d, or x=b+m-r. In the latter case, x is equal to be added to m, with r subtracted, and the quantities on the right hand of the sign of equation are said to be the value of x on the left hand.

3. In astronomy, the reduction of the apparent time or motion of the sun to equable, mean or true time.

4. The reduction of any extremes to a mean proportion.

EQUA'TOR, noun [Latin from oequo, to make equal.] In astronomy and geography, a great circle of the sphere, equally distant from the two poles of the world, or having the same poles as the world. It is called equator because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence it is called also the equinoctial, and when drawn on maps, globes and planispheres, it is called the equinoctial line, or simply the line. Every point in the equator is 90 degrees or a quadrant's distance from the poles; hence it divides the globe or sphere into two equal hemispheres, the northern and southern. At the meridian, the equator rises as much above the horizon as is the complement of the latitude of the place.

EQUATO'RIAL, adjective Pertaining to the equator; as equatorial climates. The equatorial diameter of the earth is longer than the polar diameter.

E'QUERY, noun [Low Latin scutarius, from scutum, a shield. See Esquire.]

1. An officer of princes, who has the care and management of his horses.

2. A stable or lodge for horses.

EQUES'TRIAN, adjective [Latin equester, equestris, from eques, a horseman, from eqnus, a horse.]

1. Pertaining to horses or horsemanship; performed with horses; as equestrian feats.

2. Being on horseback; as an equestrian lady.

3. Skilled in horsemanship.

4. Representing a person on horseback; as an equestrian statue.

5. Celebrated by horse-races; as equestrian games, sports or amusements.

6. Belonging to knights. Among the Romans, the equestrian order was the order of knights, equites; also their troopers or horsemen in the field. In civil life, the knights stood contra-distinguished from the senators; in the field, from the infantry.

EQUIAN'GULAR, adjective [Latin oequus, equal, and angulus, an angle.]

In geometry, consisting of or having equal angles; an epithet given to figures whose angles are all equal, such as a square, an equilateral triangle, a parallelogram, etc.

EQUIBAL'ANCE, noun [Latin oequus and bilanx.] Equal weight.

EQUIBAL'ANCE, verb transitive To have equal weight with something.

EQUICRU'RAL, adjective [Latin oequus, equal and crus, a leg.] Having legs of equal length.

1. Having equal legs, but longer than the base; isosceles; as an equicrural triangle.

EQUIDIF'FERENT, adjective Having equal differences; arithmetically proportional.

In crystalography, having a different number of faces presented by the prism and by each summit; and these three numbers form a series in arithmetical progression, as 6.4.2.

EQUIDIS'TANCE, noun Equal distance.

EQUIDIS'TANT, adjective [Latin oequus, equal, and distans, distant.]

Being at an equal distance from some point or place.

EQUIDIS'TANTLY, adverb At the same or an equal distance.

EQUIFORM'ITY, noun [Latin oequus, equal, and forma, form.] Uniform equality.

EQUILAT'ERAL, adjective [Latin oequus, equal, and lateralis, from latus, side.]

Having all the sides equal; as an equilateral triangle. A square must necessarily be equilateral

EQUILAT'ERAL, noun A side exactly corresponding to others.

EQUILI'BRATE, verb transitive [Latin oequus and libro, to poise.]

To balance equally two scales, sides or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side.

The bodies of fishes are equilibrated with the water.

EQUILI'BRATED, participle passive Balanced equally on both sides or ends.

EQUILI'BRATING, participle present tense Balancing equally on both sides or ends.

EQUILIBRA'TION, noun Equipoise; the act of keeping the balance even, or the state of being equally balanced.

Nature's laws of equilibration

EQUILIB'RIOUS, adjective Equally poised.

EQUILIB'RIOUSLY, adverb In equal poise.

EQUIL'IBRIST, noun One that balances equally.

EQUILIB'RITY, noun [Latin oequilibritas.] The state of being equally balanced; equal balance on both sides; equilibrium; as the theory of equilibrity

EQUILIB'RIUM, noun [Latin] In mechanics, equipose; equality of weight; the state of the two ends of a lever or balance, when both are charged with equal weight, and they maintain an even or level position, parallel to the horizon.

1. Equality of powers.

Health consists in the equilibrium between those two powers.

2. Equal balancing of the mind between motives or reasons; a

state of indifference or of doubt, when the mind is suspended in indecision, between different motives, or the different forces of evidence.

EQUIMUL'TIPLE, adjective [Latin oequus and multiplico or multiplex.]

Multiplied by the same number or quantity.

EQUIMUL'TIPLE, noun In arithmetic and geometry, a number multiplied by the same number or quantity. Hence equimultiples are always in the same ratio to each other, as the simple numbers or quantities before multiplication. If 6 and 9 are multiplied by 4, the multiples, 24 and 36, will be to each other as 6 to 9.

E'QUINE, adjective [Latin equinus, from equus, a horse.] Pertaining to a horse or to the genus.

The shoulders, body, thighs, and mane are equine; the head completely bovine.

EQUINEC'ESSARY, adjective [Latin oequus and necessary.]

Necessary or needful in the same degree.

EQUINOC'TIAL, adjective [Latin oequus, equal, and nox, night.]

1. Pertaining to the equinoxes; designating an equal length of day and night; as the equinoctial line.

2. Pertaining to the regions or climate of the equinoctial line or equator; in or near that line; as equinoctial heat; an equinoctial sun; equinoctial wind.

3. Pertaining to the time when the sun enters the equinoctial points; as an equinoctial gale or storm, which happens at or near the equinox, in any part of the world.

4. equinoctial flowers, flowers that open at a regular, stated hour.

EQUINOC'TIAL, noun [for equinoctial line.]

In astronomy, a great circle of the sphere, under which the equator moves in its diurnal course. This should not be confounded with the equator, as there is a difference between them; the equator being movable, and the equinoctial immovable; the equator being drawn about the convex surface of the sphere, and the equinoctial on the concave surface of the magnus orbis. These words however are often confounded. When the sun, in its course through the ecliptic, comes to this circle, it makes equal days and nights in all parts of the globe. The equinoctial then is the circle which the sun describes, or appears to describe, at the time the days and nights are of equal length, viz. about the 21st of March and 23d of September.

Equinoctial points, are the two points wherein the equator and ecliptic intersect each other; the one, being in the first point of Aries, is called the vernal point or equinox; the other, in the first point of Libra, the autumnal point or equinox.

Equinoctial dial, is that whose plane lies parallel to the equinoctial

EQUINOC'TIALLY, adverb In the direction of the equinox.

E'QUINOX, noun [Latin oequus, equal, and nox, night.]

The precise time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points, or the first point of Aries, about the 21st of March, and the first point of Libra, about the 23d of September, making the day and the night of equal length. These are called the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. These points are found to be moving backward or westward, at the rate of 50' of a degree in a year. This is called the precession of the equinoxes.

EQUINU'MERANT, adjective [Latin oequus, equal, and numerus, number.]

Having or consisting of the same number. [Little used.]

EQUIP', verb transitive

1. Properly, to dress; to habit. Hence, to furnish with arms, or a complete suit of arms, for military service. Thus we say, to equip men or troops for war; to equip a body of infantry or cavalry. But the word seems to include not only arms, but clothing, baggage, utensils, tents, and all the apparatus of an army, particularly when applied to a body of troops. Hence, to furnish with arms and warlike apparatus; as, to equip a regiment.

2. To furnish with men, artillery and munitions of war, as a ship. Hence, in common language, to fit for sea; to furnish with whatever is necessary for a voyage.

EQ'UIPAGE, noun The furniture of a military man, particularly arms and their appendages.

1. The furniture of an army or body of troops, infantry or cavalry; including arms, artillery, utensils, provisions, and whatever is necessary for a military expedition. Camp equipage includes tents, and every thing necessary for accommodation in camp. Field equipage consists of arms, artillery, wagons, tumbrels, etc.

2. The furniture of an armed ship, or the necessary preparations for a voyage; including cordage, spars, provisions, etc.

3. Attendance, retinue, as persons, horses, carriages, etc.; as the equipage of a prince.

4. Carriage of state; vehicle; as celestial equipage

5. Accouterments; habiliments; ornamental furniture.

EQ'UIPAGED, adjective Furnished with equipage; attended with a splendid retinue.

EQUIPEN'DENCY, noun [Latin oequus, equal, and pendeo, to hang.]

The act of hanging in equipoise; a being not inclined or determined either way.

EQUIP'MENT, noun The act of equipping, or fitting for a voyage or expedition.

1. Any thing that is used in equipping; furniture; habiliments; warlike apparatus; necessaries for an expedition, or for a voyage; as the equipments of a ship or an army.

E'QUIPOISE, noun s as z. [Latin oequus, equal.] Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced. Hold the scales in equipoise The mind may be in a state of equipoise when motives are of equal weight.

EQUIPOL'LENCE

EQUIPOL'LENCY, noun [Latin oequus and pollentia, power, polleo, to be able.]

1. Equality of power or force.

2. In logic, an equivalence between two or more propositions; that is, when two propositions signify the same thing, though differently expressed.

EQUIPOL'LENCY, n. [L. oequus and pollentia, power, polleo, to be able.]

EQUIPOL'LENT, adjective [supra.] Having equal power or force; equivalent. In logic, having equivalent signification.

EQUIPON'DERANCE, noun [Latin oequus, equal, and pondus, weight.]

Equality of weight; equipoise.

EQUIPON'DERANT, adjective [supra.] Being of the same weight.

EQUIPON'DERATE, verb intransitive [Latin oequus, equal, and pondero, to weigh.]

To be equal in weight; to weigh as much as another thing.

EQUIPON'DIOUS, adjective Having equal weight on both sides.

EQUIP'PED, participle passive Furnished with habiliments, arms, and whatever is necessary for a military expedition, or for a voyage or cruise.

EQUIP'PING, participle present tense Furnishing with habiliments or warlike apparatus; supplying with things necessary for a voyage.

EQUISO'NANCE, noun An equal sounding; a name by which the Greeks distinguished the consonances of the octave and double octave.

EQ'UITABLE, noun [Latin oequitas, from oequus, equal.]

1. Equal in regard to the rights of persons; distributing equal justice; giving each his due; assigning to one or more what law or justice demands; just; impartial. The judge does justice by an equitable decision. The court will make an equitable distribution of the estate.

2. Having the disposition to do justice, or doing justice; impartial; as an equitable judge.

3. Held or exercised in equity, or with chancery powers; as the equitable jurisdiction of a court.

EQ'UITABLENESS, noun The quality of being just and impartial; as the equitableness of a judge.

1. Equity; the state of doing justice, or distributing to each according to his legal or just claims; as the equitableness of a decision or distribution of property.

EQ'UITABLY, adverb In an equitable manner; justly; impartially. The laws should be equitably administered.

EQ'UITANT, adjective [Latin equitans, equito, to ride, from eques, a horseman, or equus, a horse.]

In botany, riding, as equitant leaves: a term of leafing or foliation, when two opposite leaves converge so with their edges, that one incloses the other; or when the inner leaves are inclosed by the outer ones.

EQUITA'TION, noun A riding on horseback.

EQ'UITY, noun [Latin oequitas, from oequus, equal, even, level.]

1. Justice; right. In practice, equity is the impartial distribution of justice, or the doing that to another which the laws of God and man, and of reason, give him a right to claim. It is the treating of a person according to justice and reason.

The Lord shall judge the people with equity Psalms 98:9.

With righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity Isaiah 11:4.

2. Justice; impartiality; a just regard to right or claim; as, we must, in equity allow this claim.

3. In law, an equitable claim. 'I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.'

4. In jurisprudence, the correction or qualification of law, when too severe or defective; or the extension of the words of the law to cases not expressed, yet coming within the reason of the law. Hence a court of equity or chancery, is a court which corrects the operation of the literal text of the law, and supplies its defects, by reasonable construction, and by rules of proceeding and deciding, which are not admissible in a court of law. equity then is the law of reason, exercised by the chancellor or judge, giving remedy in cases to which the courts of law are not competent.

5. equity of redemption, in law, the advantage, allowed to a mortgager, of a reasonable time to redeem lands mortgaged, when the estate is of greater value than the sum for which it was mortgaged.

EQUIV'ALENCE, noun [Latin oequus, equal, and valens, from valeo, to be worth.]

1. Equality of value; equal value or worth. Take the goods and give an equivalence in corn.

2. Equal power or force. [To equivalence a verb, used by Brown, has not gained currency.]

EQUIV'ALENT, adjective Equal in value or worth. In barter, the goods given are supposed to be equivalent to the goods received. equivalent in value or worth, is tautological.

1. Equal in force, power or effect. A steam engine may have force or power equivalent to that of thirty horses.

2. Equal in moral force, cogency or effect on the mind. Circumstantial evidence may be almost equivalent to full proof.

3. Of the same import or meaning. Friendship and amity are equivalent terms.

For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent

Equivalent propositions in logic are called also equipollent.

4. Equal in excellence or moral worth.

EQUIV'ALENT, noun That which is equal in value, weight, dignity or force, with something else. The debtor cannot pay his creditor in money, but he will pay him an equivalent Damages in money cannot be an equivalent for the loss of a limb.

1. In chimistry, equivalent is the particular weight or quantity of any substance which is necessary to saturate any other with which it can combine. It is ascertained that chimical combinations are definite, that is, the same body always enters into combination in the same weight, or if it can combine with a particular body in more than one proportion, the higher proportion is always a multiple of the lower.

EQUIV'ALENTLY, adverb In an equal manner.

EQUIV'OCACY, noun Equivocalness. [Not used.]

EQUIV'OCAL, adjective [Low Latin oequivocus; oequus, equal, and vox, a word. See Vocal.]

1. Being of doubtful signification; that may be understood in different senses; capable of a double interpretation; ambiguous; as equivocal words, terms or senses. Men may be misled in their opinions by the use of equivocal terms.

2. Doubtful; ambiguous; susceptible of different constructions; not decided. The character of the man is somewhat equivocal His conduct is equivocal

3. Uncertain; proceeding from some unknown cause, or not from the usual cause. equivocal generation is the production of animals without the intercourse of the sexes, and of plants without seed. This doctrine is now exploded.

EQUIV'OCAL, noun A word or term of doubtful meaning, or capable of different meanings.

EQUIV'OCALLY, adverb Ambiguously; in a doubtful sense; in terms susceptible of different senses. He answered the question equivocally

1. By uncertain birth; by equivocal generation.

EQUIV'OCALNESS, noun Ambiguity; double meaning.

EQUIV'OCATE, verb intransitive To use words of a doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses; to use ambiguous expressions. To equivocate is the dishonorable work of duplicity. The upright man will not equivocate in his intercourse with his fellow men.

EQUIV'OCATING, participle present tense Using ambiguous words or phrases.

EQUIVOCA'TION, noun Ambiguity of speech; the use of words or expressions that are susceptible of a double signification. Hypocrites are often guilty of equivocation and by this means lose the confidence of their fellow men. equivocation is incompatible with the christian character and profession.

EQUIV'OCATOR, noun One who equivocates; one who uses language which is ambiguous and may be interpreted in different ways; one who uses mental reservation.

E'QUIVOKE, noun An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.

1. Equivocation.

EQUIV'OROUS, adjective [Latin equus, horse, and voro, to eat.]

Feeding or subsisting on horse flesh.

Equivorous Tartars.