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food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc. toaster. My sober evening let the tankard bless, With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught. T. Warton.

To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing. When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells. Dryden.

A kind of black coat for evening dress made without skirts; -- so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York. [U. S.]

The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches.

The under or after part of the day; undermeal; evening. [Obs.] He, coming home at undertime, there found The fairest creature that he ever saw. Spenser.

To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid until evening; he will not come back until the end of the month. He and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity. Judg. xviii. 30.

ranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room. The stars that usher evening rose. Milton. The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author. Addison.

eal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.

The evening star; Hesper; Venus, when seen after sunset; hence, the evening. Shak.

Vesper; evening. [R.]

The evening song or service. Sicilian vespers. See under Sicilian, a.

Of or pertaining to the evening; happening or being in the evening. Gray.

A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast. Vigils, or Watchings, of flowers (Bot.), a peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers of certain plants of opening and closing their petals as certain hours of the day. [R.]

The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.

wk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening. [Written also whippowil.]

A plane used by coopers for evening chines.

Yester-evening; yesternight; last night. [R. or Scot.] Yestreen I did not know How largely I could live. Bp. Coxe.

ase being on the horizon, and its apex at varying altitudes. It is to be seen only in the evening, after twilight, and in the morning before dawn. It is supposed to be due to sunlight reflected from multitudes of meteoroids revolving about the sun nearly in the plane of the ecliptic.