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Of or pertaining to the evening, or to the service of vespers; as, a vesper hymn; vesper bells. Vesper sparrow, the grass finch. See under Grass.

Vesper; evening. [R.]

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

A genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of North America and Europe.

tribe of bats including the common insectivorous bats of America and Europe, belonging to Vespertilio and allied genera. They lack a nose membrane.

Of or pertaining to the Vespertiliones.

Vespertine. Lowell.

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

A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)

even canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal.

me containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.

r the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong. Wyclif. Milton.

Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.

s now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds. F. Harrison. The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. Dryden.

. Thackeray. -- Little hours (R. C. Ch.), the offices of prime, tierce, sext, and nones. Vespers and compline are sometimes included. -- Little ones, young children. The men, and the women, and the little ones. Deut. ii. 34.

A large European bat (Vespertilio, or Noctulina, altivolans).

A small European bat (Vesperugo pipistrellus); -- called also flittermouse.

The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.

e genus Primula. Evening primrose, an erect biennial herb (Enothera biennis), with yellow vespertine flowers, common in the United States. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus. -- Primrose peerless, the two-flowered Narcissus (N. biflorus). [Obs.]

The leather-winged bat (Vespertilio murinus). [Written also reermouse.]