eversion

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EVER'SION, noun [Latin eversio.] An overthrowing; destruction. Eversion of the eye-lids, ectropium, a disease in which the eye-lids are turned outward, so as to expose the red internal tunic.
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