everted, ppl. a.
(ɪˈvɜːtɪd)
[f. evert + -ed1.]
Turned outwards or inside out.
| 1786 R. Smith in Microcosm No. 3 Even these [persons] would..be absolutely taken ill of an everted coal-box. 1804 Abernethy Surg. Observ. 83 And turns over the everted edges of the opening. 1836 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 225/1 When cut longitudinally, the inner surface of the arteries does not become everted. 1859 R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 53 The lips are tumid and everted. 1866 Huxley Preh. Rem. Caithn. 130 The jugal arches of the European are hardly ever, if ever, so wide and everted as those of some Esquimaux. 1878 Grove Dict. Mus. I. 210 Bell, the everted opening in which most wind instruments terminate. |