a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier, A Middle English form of noon, a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise, adverb_ not at all or in no way, adjective_ No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any, No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically