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The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day. [Scot.] Burns.

The evening; Hesperus.

Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.

r crook." Spenser. -- Off the hooks, unhinged; disturbed; disordered. [Colloq.] "In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the river." Pepys. -- On one's own hook, on one's own account or responsibility; by one's self. [Colloq. U.S.] Bart…

ir or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor. Evening cloud, or humid bow. Milton.

Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. You are the most immediate to our throne. Shak.

careless; negligent; inattentive. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. Cowper. -- In`ad*vert"ent*ly, adv.

le air; -- opposed to exhale. Martin was walking forth to inhale the fresh breeze of the evening. Arbuthnot.

In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum.

An intervening or inserted chapter.

To shut off or out from a place or course, by something intervening; to intercept; to cut off; to interrupt. Mitford. So all passage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded. Boyle.

Running between or among; intervening. Boyle. Bp. Fell.

Flowing between or among; intervening. Boyle.

The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc. All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream. Shak.

Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles. Sir W. Raleigh.

A flowing between; intervening water. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Lying between; intervening; intermediate. "Intermedial colors." Evelyn.

eing in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state (Theol.), the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body. -- Intermediate terms (M…

An intervening agent or instrument. Cowper.

Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. Rest or intermission none I find. Milton.