nooning

[Eng. noon; -ing.] A repose or repast at noon; a nuncheon. "If he be disposed to take a whet, a nooning , an even ing's draught, or a bottle after midnight, he goes to the Club."- Add is on : Spectator, No. 72. *noon-shun, s. [NUNCHEON.] noôn'-stead, *noôn'-sted, s . [Eng. noon, and stead .] The position of the sun at noontide. "It would turn the noonsted into night." Drayton: The Moon- Calf . noôn'-tide, s. [A. S. nón - tid , from nón=noon, and tid tide, time.] A. As substantive : 1. Ord . Lang .: The time about noon; midday; the middle of the day. "Makes the night morning and the noontide night." Shakesp.: Richard III., i. 4. 2. Bot .: [NO ON FLOWER.] B. As adj .: Pertaining to noon or midday. happening at noon; meridional. "He is retired as noontide dew." Words worth: Poet's Epitaph . *noontide-prick, subst . The point of noon. ( Shakesp .: Henry VI ., Pt . III . , i. 4.) noôps, s. [Etym. doubtful.] A popular name for Rubus cham am or us, or cloudberry. *noôr'-ỹ, s . [Fr. nourri , pa. par. of nourrir = to nourish.] A boy, a stripling, a lad. "In her arms the naked noory strained." Turberville . a discourse.] The science phenomena. intellectual IMG:content-0112.png:[blocks in formation] A. As substantive: I. Literally: *1. The ninth hour of the day, or three o'clock P. M. at which the church service of nones was celebrated; afterward the time of this service was altered, and the term came to be applied to midday. 2. Midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian. "Thou find'st him from the heat of noon retir'd." Milton. P. L., v. 231. II. Fig .: The middle or culminating point of anything; the prime; the time of greatest brilliancy. power, or fame. B. As adj .: Meridional; pertaining to noon or midday. "How oft the noon , how oft the midnight bell, Knocks at our hearts." (1) Noon of night: Midnight. Young. IMG:content-0113.png:[blocks in formation] "You're fairly noosed , and must consent To bear, what nothing can prevent." Wilkie: Ape , Parrot, and Jackdaw. Noôth, subst . [The inventor of the apparatus.) (See etym. and compound.) Nooth's-apparatus, subst. Three gla es placed vertically to impregnate water with carbonic acid. ( Ogilvie.) Noôt-ka, s . [See def.] The native name of an inlet in Vancouver's Island. Nootka-dog, s . Zool .: A variety of Canis familiar is , formerly made a separate species, Canis laniger nob is (Hamilton Smith). These dogs have been domesticated by the natives, and Vancouver ( Voyage , i. 226) says of them: "The dogs. were all shorn as close to the skin as sheep are in England, and so compact were their fleeces that large portions could be lifted up by a corner without causing any separation. They were composed of a mix ture of a coarse kind of wool with very fine long hair, capable of being spun into yarn."