(a) The middle of the day, the period around noon; devel of ~, devil who is abroad in the middle of the day; in the time of ~, in the middle of the day; in morwe and ~ and even-tide, morning, noon, and night; continually; (b) noon, twelve o'clock in the day; over ~, after noon; (c) heigh ~, ~ heigh, ~ even, verrei ~, high noon, exactly twelve o'clock; line of ~ [see line n.(1) 7.]; marke of ~, the point or prick of noon, exactly twelve o'clock; (d) houre of (the) ~, time of (o) ~, noon, twelve o'clock; bi ~ or non, ?by noon or nones (3:00 p.m.), ?by noon; bitwene ~ and non, between noon and nones; bitwixe the ~ and evensong, between noon and sunset; fro the ~ to compline, from noon to late evening; (e) fig. the midday of life, manhood.

The service of the fourth canonical hour, sext.

As adj.: (a) of the middle of the day, midday; ~ devel (fend), the devil who is abroad in the middle of the day; ~ houre (mel, time), the period around noon; ~ mel-time, the time of the midday meal; ~ sonne, the midday sun, the sun around noon; (b) of noon, pertaining to twelve o'clock of the day; ~ angle, the angle (90 degrees) made by a vertical dropped from the sun at noon with the plane of the horizon; ~ ark (line, spere), the arc (line, sphere) of noon, the sun's meridian of 12 o'clock; ~ marke, the point of noon, the highest point of the sun's course in the sky.

As adv.: the) ~, during the middle of the day; ~ and more, until noon and later; ~ ne (in) morn, ~ nor morwe, neither at midday nor in the morning, not) at any time; ~ and morn, even and morn and ~, midnight ~ and at morn, at all times, continually.

South; in (the) ~, to the south; as adj.: ~ brinke, south coast; ~ feld, southland; ~ forest (wodi place), southern forest.

As surname.