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Of or pertaining to the moon. Soft and pale as the moony beam. J. R. Drake.

A short musket.

Hence, the highest point; culmination. 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.

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

Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

A rest at noon; a repast at noon.

See Nunchion. Nares.

The position of the sun at noon. [Obs.] Drayton.

The time of noon; midday.

See Octoroon.

The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.

Too soon. Sir P. Sidney.

Aridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes. Addison. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. Shak.

The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery. [R.] Lamb.

One unprovided with motive power.

See Pataca.

One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

The office of a patroon. Irving.

A plantlike animal. The term is sometimes applied to zoöphytes.

One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. Sir W. Temple.