E'ven-ing, n.
(ē'vn-ing), n. [See EVE, EVEN.]
Sense 1. The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline or fall of the day, or of the sun.
*In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose.* Milton.
Sense 2. The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.
Evening star, Hesperus or Vesper; Venus, when visible in the evening.