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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.

The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.

The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.

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

The noon of yesterday; the noon last past.

A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.

Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)

The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.

flictions, or by temptations; to tempt. [Obs. or Archaic] It made the laughter of an afternoon That Vivien should attempt the blameless king. Thackeray.

eat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon! Milton.

arth was dark, but the heavens were bright. Drake. The public places were as bright as at noonday. Macaulay.

es as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial. The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon. Old Play. Nares.

f England's] service in the morning, and go with their wives to a conventicle in the afternoon. Swift.