Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Eve \Eve\, 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, Christians 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}.