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Eve

1. Evening. Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. (Thomson)

2. The evening before a holiday, from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. Not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. On the eve of death.

(Science: zoology) eve churr, the European goatsucker or nightjar.

Synonym: night churr, and churr owl.

See: even.