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A toxic substance contained in the venom of poisonous snakes; also, a (supposedly identical) toxic substance obtained by the cleavage of an albumose.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

ecline of the day, or of the sum. In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose. Milton.

The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven.

Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. -- Rav"en*ing*ly, adv.

The evening of yesterday; the evening last past.

entertainment that makes the time pass quickly. [Obs.] What abridgment have you for this evening What mask What music Shak.

The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.

The evening before Allhallows. See Halloween.

The evening before Allhallows. See Halloween.

rrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.

orm of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.

An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.

the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

night hawk; -- so called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. -- Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. -- Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. -- Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pumping engine, in which the steam cylinder is placed above the pump. -- Bull snake (Zoöl.),…

Chemical action taking place through an intervening membrane.

Cheering; enlivening. He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes. Pope.

or suitable for, Christmas. -- Christmas day. Same as Christmas. -- Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas. -- Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter. -- Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a poisonous pl…

A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares. Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.