The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goatsucker \Goat"suck`er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species ( Caprimulgus Europ[ae]us); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk.
Eve \Eve\ ([=e]v), n. [See Even, n.]
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Evening. [Poetic]
Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze.
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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.