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• Noon

  ·noun Hence, the highest point; culmination. II. Noon ·vi To take rest and refreshment at noon. II...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Noon-flower

  ·noun The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• noon-flower

  n. a rare name for the Mesembryanthemum. See Pig-face. 1891. `The Argus,' Dec. 19, p. 4, col. 2: ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• noon-scape

  the time when labourers rest after dinner. Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• apparent noon

  The instant that the sun's centre is on the meridian of a place. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mean noon

  The noon of a mean day supposing the year to be divided into days of equal length. It differs from a...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Sleep-at-noon

  ·noun A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. ...

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• Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon

  (1795-1854) Poet and biographer, s. of a brewer at Reading, where he was b., and which he represent...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin