- Night watch - Purposeful watch - Wakeful time at six with ghosts initially lurking - Watch - Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is
customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being
awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. - Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other
religious exercises. - Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
- Evening star - The evening star; Hesper; Venus, when seen after sunset;
hence, the evening. - Of or pertaining to the evening, or to the service of
vespers; as, a vesper hymn; vesper bells.
- Smooth ditty heard in church service - Vespers - A song for the evening; the evening service or form of
worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline);
also, the time of evensong.