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

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

rom superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheæ), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct. Acoustic vessels. See under Acoustic. -- Weaker vessel, a woman; -- now applied humorously. "Givi…

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.]

A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue. The finished garden to the view Its vistas opens, and its alleys green. Thomson. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vis…

Giving life; reviving; enlivening. [R.]

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

k 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.

nus. See Saccharomyces. -- Yeast powder, a baling powder, -- used instead of yeast in leavening bread.

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

se 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.