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noonstead Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 6–7 noonestead (6 -steede, 7 -sted), 6 none-, noonsteed, 6– noonstead.
[f. noon n. + stead n.]
The station or position of the sun at noon.
1559Mirr. Mag. (1563) P iij, Pale Cinthea..was past the Noonesteede syxe degrees in sight. 1598Drayton Heroic. Ep. (1695) 127 The worlds great light..Would at our Noon-stead ever make aboad. 1612J. Davies Muse's Sacr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 83/2 The Sunne..stands..fixt in the Noone-stead of Eternities. 1670Flamsteed in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 77 The moon was scarce an hour removed from the noonstead. 1876Mid Yorksh. Gloss. s.v. Folkstead.
attrib.1551Recorde Cast. Knowl. (1556) 22 A circle..whiche is called therefore the Meridiane circle, and may be named well the Noone steede cyrcle. 1601Holland Pliny I. 191 In the 12 tables of Romane lawes, there is no mention at all made but of East and West; after certain yeres the noon-stead point in the South quarter also was obserued.
Hence † ˈnoonsteading, the time of coming on the meridian.
1570Dee Math. Pref. 42 Foreseeing the Rising, Settyng, Nonestedyng..of certaine..fixed Sterres. |