Eve \Eve\, n. [See Even, n.]

1. Evening. [Poetic]

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.'' --Keble.

Eve churr (Zo["o]l), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)