A source of illumination. The sun or other celestial object. Now rare.

The bright celestial object which is the chief source of natural light and heat on earth and appears to pass across the sky each day from east to…

Apollo as the god of light or of the sun; the sun personified.

absol. the sheen n. the bright weapon; also, the bright sun. nonce-uses.

Chiefly poetic. The sun god; the sun personified. Obsolete.

The sun (personified).

With allusion to the wheels of the chariot of the Sun. poetic.

The sun, regarded as providing the light of day. Frequently figurative.

poetic. The sun.

(a name given to) the sun; cf. queen of the night, n. 1.

? the sun.

One of the names of the sun in ancient Egypt; the name by which the sun or solar disc was worshipped particularly during the reign of Amenophis IV…