Nones
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n. pl.) The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method.
(2): ( n. pl.) The canonical office, being a part of the Breviary, recited at noon (formerly at the ninth hour, 3 P. M.) in the Roman Catholic Church.
(3): ( n. pl.) The hour of dinner; the noonday meal.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
a service of the ninth hour, or three in the afternoon, the usual time of the Jewish sacrifice. Chrysostom exhorts to this service by telling us that at that hour paradise was opened for the thief, and the great sacrifice was offered. Some derive the term noon from Nones, because the sacrifice was often antedated, and held at mid-day. (See Ninth Hour).
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
In the Roman calendar the ninth day before the Ides ( q. v .), being the 7th of March, May, July, and October, and the 5th of the rest.
