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None, Noun(e, Nune, n.¹ Also: non, nonne; noin(e, noyne; nown(e, nowin; nun, nwn(e; nuy(i)n, nwine; newne; noon(e. [ME. and e.m.E. non, none, noon(e, late north. ME. noyn (Towneley Plays), OE. nón: cf. Nonen.²] Noon.Chiefly or only, midday, twelve o'clock in the day.But orig. and perh. still in some of the Leg. S. quots.: the ninth hour of the day reckoned from sunrise, or about three o'clock in the afternoon; the hour of the office of nones (see None n.²).As the none, none, none of the day, or time or hour of none.(1) 1375 Barb. iv. 617 (E).
Als sone as the none wes past a1400 Leg. S. xl. 769.
Fryday fra the novne Til Sonday Ib. xliv. 46.
The folk went hame at the novne a1500 Henr. Fab. 1824 (H, Ch.).
It drew neir the none(2) a1400 Leg. S. iii. 145.
Andro … Prait for hym fra morne til nowne [L. a tertia usque ad nonam] Ib. xl. 1027.
That day ore it wes none c1400 Troy-bk. i. 51.
Be none to-morn Ib. ii. 1702. c1420 Wynt. v. 925 (W).
And fra none of his [the saint's] evin c1475 Wall. i. 372.
He, or nowne, was in a fellowne dreid Ib. viii. 925. a1500 Rauf C. 282.
The carll … prayit him to abyde none a1508 Kynd Kittok 18.
Scho slepit quhill the morne at none a1538 Abell 93 a.
Or nwn of the morne 1531 Bell. Boece II. 358.
Neir noun 1535 Stewart 2759.
Baith evin and nune c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1750.
Quhen the sonneis at the hycht, Att nonne quhen it doith schyne most brycht 1553 Perth Guildry 520 (12 Aug.).
At the fest … of Sanct Martyne … at none a1568 Scott ii. 87. 1560 Rolland Seven S. 7515, 8034. 1565 Reg. Privy C. I. 332.
Fra sex houris in the morning to xi houris at none 1659-60 A. Hay Diary 140.
Very rainie till nonne(3) 1375 Barb. xvii. 130.
Quhill it wes neir noyne [E. none] of the day Ib. 398.
Quhill noyne wes passit of the day a1500 Rauf C. 344.
Than to Paris thay pas … Betuix none of the day and ȝule nicht Ib. 546.
Sen thow will be thair … I neid nane airar myne erand nor none of the day a1578 Pitsc. II. 219/30.
Ȝe sould have sein als gret licht … at xii houris in the nicht … as gif it had beine at non of the day(4) c1500 Fyve Bestes 253.
And still he lay quhill it was tyme of none 15.. Clar. iv. 263.
On the Tuisday be the hour of noune They com to it

b. With before (afore) and efter, freq. = in the forenoon, afternoon, respectively.See also Efternone prep. phr. and n.Also occas. with plur. inflexion.(1) a1400 Leg. S. xviii. 173.
That day befor the nowne Al come thai hame 1439 Charter (Reg. H.) C.O. No. 49.
On a Witsonday before the nvne a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 114.
The pepill … Befoir the none vnto the tempill went(2) 1385 Rot. Sc. II. 73/2.
Opon Blak Monday that next cummis befor none 1456 Hay I. 250/15.
Clere thing is it that better is before na efter none a1500 Rauf C. 400.
Bring him … to me Befoir none 1493 Antiq. Aberd. & B. II. 212.
The awcht day of Januar nyxt to cum befor non 1532 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I. 102.
Tyvisday eftir none and Weddynsday befoir none 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 13.
Afoir none 1591 Laing Chart. 301. c1650 Spalding I. 278. 1652 Lamont Diary 47.
He preached also the sabath aforenone(b) 1556 Grant Chart. 120.
Befoir noyne 1566 Crim. Trials I. i. 484.
We wer befoir noyne in the kirk 1574 Aboyne Rec. 125.
Noine 1602 Inverness Rec. II. i.
Noin(c) 1492 Reg. Episc. Morav. 248.
Effor nowne 1498–9 Acta Conc. II. 310.
To morne before noune 1531 Bell. Boece. II. 358.
On the morow, afore noun 1582 Inverness Rec. I. 293. 1597 S. Leith Rec. 2/1. 1618 Inverurie 205.
Nown 1652 Stirling B. Rec. I. 200.
I gatt the schorter anssuer efter nowin(d) 1543 Corr. M. Lorraine 17.
This Monunday befor nun 1551 Acts II. 482/2.
Befoir nune c 1580 Maxwell Mem. II. 148.
The xxii day of Merche befoir nwne 1587 Elgin Rec. II. 8.
Till the last bell be rung befoir nwn 1596 Old Ross-shire 29.
Nune c1610 Melville Mem. 120.
A foir nun, efter nun and efter supper 1663 Craven Ch. in Orkney 16.
Mr William Annand taught before nune, and the Bischop of Edinburgh in the efter nune(e) 1564 St. A. Kirk S. 225.
Befoir nuyin(f) 1619 Old Kirk Chron. 99.
If I burne before noone … Margaret Hunter will burne afternoone 1638 Ib. 110.
I taucht befor noon and catecheist at efternoone(3) 1456 Hay II. 137/11.
plur. Rude men … quhilkis … slepis eftir nonis 1612 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 115.
Nownis

c. With various preps., esp. before and efter (q.v. s.v. Efternone 1), preceded by a time of day, = a.m., midday, p.m., respectively.(1) 1490 Irland Mir. II. 73/14.
At viii or ix houris befor none the sone sendis his licht to the window 1493 Dunferm. B. Rec. I. 42. 1499–1500 Acta Conc. II. 356.
At ix houris before noune 1505 Acts II. 263/2.
Nwne 1528 Ib. 325/2.
Newne 1531 Misc. Bann. C. III. 417.
x howris afornoone 1555 Acts Sederunt i. 56.
At the last hour befoir none 1567 St. A. Kirk S. 74.
Nuyn 1568 Lyndesay Pref. 398.
Fra ix houris afoir none till vi houris at euin 1569 Sc. Hist. Rev. I. 40.
None a1578 Pitsc. I. 189/6. 1586 Montrose Baillie Ct. 29 July.
Nvn 1621 Elgin Rec. II. 165.
Noyne 1624 Orkney & Shetl. Test. I. iii.
Nwine 1647 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 76.
Till tuelff houris befoir noone(2) 1540 Linlithgow B. Ct. 20 Oct.
Quhill xij houris at nowne 1544 Misc. Bann. C. III. 423.
At xij houris of none(3) c1475 Wall. iv. 432.
Be ane our nowne thre for rydaris went bye Ib. vii. 611. 1583 Prot. Bk. J. Scott 160.
At four houris efter nowin or thairby

d. As the time of the midday meal, hence put for the meal itself.(1) a1400 Leg. S. xxiv. 95.
Ilke day that oure of nowne To pere hyme-self wald serue but hone c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxix. 19.
Quhen men … Passis to drynk or to disione Than mon I … say that I will fast quhill none a1538 Abell 50 b.
Quhen thai haif fillit thair wame at nwne with meit and drink 15.. Sym & Bruder 60.
The tyme of none wes tareit … The meit is all miskareit a1568 Pedder C. 30.
At none quhen merchantis makis gud cheir 15.. Wyf Awcht. 40.
Scho put alsmekle in hir lap As micht haif serd thame baith at nwne 1608 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III. 520.
In the morning ane callour fresch eg with sum cauld meit or milk and breid … at noone(2) c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus iv. 631.
And bad ilkane that they suld pas … and make him for the none And to thair dine suld dres thame haistelie 1573 Davidson Sat. P. xlii. 696.
Of ane dayis meit [to] mak four dayis none [dispone]