·noun One who bears witness.
II. Evidence ·vt To render evident or clear; to Prove; to Evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an Offender.
III. Evidence ·noun That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.
IV. Evidence ·noun That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof;
— the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.