n. I. the ninth hour; hora nona :-- Prím prima; undern tertia; middæg sexta; nón nona; ǽfen vesperum, Wrt. Voc. i. 53, 10-15 : R. Ben. 40, 13. Ða nigoþan tíde ðe wé nón hátaþ, Homl. Th. ii. 256, 35. Ðá com nón dæges, Beo. Th. 3204; B. 1600. Hí him tó gewunon náman ðæt hí fæston tó nónes (ad horam nonam), Bd. 3, 5; S. 527, 9. Tó huíl nónes ad horam nonam, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 27, 45, 46. On tíde nónes, Mk. Skt. Rush. 15. 33, 34. Tó underne and tó nóne ... and tó middæge. Lchdm. iii. 218-222, often. Fram middæge óþ nón, H. R. 107, 9. Sele drincan on undern, on middæg, on nón, Lchdm. ii. 140, 2. II. the service held at the ninth hour, nones :-- Wé sungon nón cantavimus nonam, Coll. Monast. Tb. 33, 35. [O. Sax. nón, nuon : Icel. nón ; n. nones, about three o'clock.]