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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Eve \Eve\ ([=e]v), n. [See {Even}, n.]
1. Evening. [Poetic]
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Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. --Thomson.
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2. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of
reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight;
as, Christmas eve is the evening before Christmas; also,
the period immediately preceding some important event. "On
the eve of death." --Keble.
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{Eve churr} (Zo["o]l.), the European goatsucker or nightjar;
-- called also {night churr}, and {churr owl}.
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