In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so
soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
Motley.
High noon, the exact meridian; midday. -- Noon of night, midnight.
[Poetic] Dryden.
Noon (?), a. Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional.
Young.
Noon, v. i. To take rest and refreshment at noon.
Noon"day` (?), n. Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.
Noon"day` (?), a. Of or pertaining to midday; meridional; as, the
noonday heat. "Noonday walks." Addison.
Noon"-flow`er (?), n. (Bot.) The goat's beard, whose flowers close at
midday.
Noon"ing, n. A rest at noon; a repast at noon.
Noon"shun (?), n. [Obs.] See Nunchion. Nares.
Noon"stead (?), n. The position of the sun at noon. [Obs.] Drayton.
Noon"tide` (?), n. [From noon + tide time; cf. AS. n&?;ntd the ninth
hour.] The time of noon; midday.
Noose (?), n. [Prob. fr. OF. nous, nom. sing. or acc. pl. of nou knot,
F. n&?;ud, L. nodus. Cf. Node.] A running knot, or loop, which binds
the closer the more it is drawn.
Noose (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Noosed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Noosing.] To
tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.
Noot (?). See lst Not. [Obs.] Chaucer.
No"pal (?), n. [Mexican nopalli.] (Bot.) A cactaceous plant (Nopalea
cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect
feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to
other species of Cactaceæ.
No"pal*ry (?), n.; pl. Nopalries (&?;). A plantation of the nopal for
raising the cochineal insect.