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churr owl

Eve \Eve\ ([=e]v), n. [See Even, n.]

  1. Evening. [Poetic]

    Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze.
    --Thomson.

  2. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight; as, Christmas eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. ``On the eve of death.''
    --Keble.

    Eve churr (Zo["o]l), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.