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A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.

Evening air; night chill. [Obs.] "Some serene blast me." B. Jonson.

The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.

The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door. Just then returned at shut of evening flowers. Milton.

s. Sicilian vespers, the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.

An evening party; -- distinguished from levee, and matinée.

Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight night. A starlight evening and a morning fair. Dryden.

Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere. "When all the woods are still." Milton.

partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy. [R. & Poetic] Subnuvolar lights of evening sharply slant. Milnes.

A beam or ray of the sun. "Evening sunbeams." Keble. Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even On a sunbeam. Milton.

A yellow flowered evening primrose (Taraxia, syn. Onothera, ovata) native of California.

e of the several species of Kneiffia, esp. K. fruticosa (syn. Onothera fruticosa), of the Evening-primrose family, having flowers that open by daylight.

The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. Campbell.

To eat the evening meal; to take supper. I do entreat that we may sup together.

A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.

To begin where another left off; to keep up in continuous succession. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale. Addison.

To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.

ntity or amount. Ma task of servile toil. Milton. Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close. Longfellow.

The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; supper. Arabian tea, the leaves of Catha edulis; also (Bot.), the plant itself. See Kat. -- Assam tea, tea grown in Assam, in India, originally brought there from China about the year 1850. -- Australian, or Botany Bay, tea (Bot.), a woody clambing plant (Smilax glycy…

ek, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.