Obs. rare. [L.] Evening, or the evening star. (Cf. VESPER 1 and 2.)
In mod. Zool. used as the name of a genus of bats belonging to the group Vespertiliones.
1600. Tourneur, Trans. Metam., vii. The skie … Is cloath’d with moorie Vesperugoe’s coate.
1679. Moxon, Math. Dict., Vesperugo, the Evening-Star, Venus, when she shines after Sun-Set. [Hence in Kersey, Bailey, etc.]
