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单词 sun
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sunn.1

Brit. /sʌn/, U.S. /sən/
Forms:

α. Old English sun- (in compounds), Old English sunn- (in compounds), Old English–early Middle English sunna, Old English–1600s (1900s– archaic) sunne, late Old English–early Middle English sunnæ, early Middle English seonne, early Middle English synne, Middle English soen (northern), Middle English soȝne (East Anglian), Middle English soone, Middle English soune (northern), Middle English sounne, Middle English sune, Middle English swn, Middle English swne, Middle English zonne (south-eastern), Middle English 1600s swnne, Middle English–1600s son, Middle English–1600s sone, Middle English–1600s sonn, Middle English–1600s sonne, Middle English–1600s sunn, Middle English–1600s svn, Middle English–1600s svnne, Middle English–1600s zunne (southern), Middle English– sun, 1500s zone, 1600s soon, 1600s soonn, 1600s svnn, 1800s zun (English regional (Isle of Wight)); Scottish pre-1700 son, pre-1700 sone, pre-1700 sonn, pre-1700 sonne, pre-1700 soone, pre-1700 soun, pre-1700 soune, pre-1700 sown, pre-1700 sowne, pre-1700 sune, pre-1700 sunn, pre-1700 sunne, pre-1700 swn, pre-1700 1700s– sun.

β. Scottish pre-1700 sene, pre-1700 syn, pre-1700 1700s– sin, 1700s 1900s sinn; Irish English (northern) 1900s– sin.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian sunne , sonne , senne (West Frisian sinne , North Frisian sen ), Old Saxon sunna (Middle Low German sunne ), Old Dutch sunna (Middle Dutch sonne , Dutch zon ), Old High German sunna (Middle High German sunne , sonne , German Sonne ), Old Icelandic sunna (in poetry), Gothic sunno , Crimean Gothic sune , < a variant (see note) of the same Indo-European base as early Scandinavian (runic: Norway) solu (dative singular), Old Icelandic sól , Old Swedish, Swedish sol , Old Danish, Danish sol , Gothic sauil , and also Sanskrit svar (genitive sūraḥ ), Old Avestan huuarə̄ (see note), ancient Greek ἥλιος , ἠέλιος (Doric ἀέλιος , Cretan ἀβέλιος ; compare helio- comb. form), classical Latin sōl (compare sol n.1), Old Welsh houl (Welsh haul), Old Prussian saule, Lithuanian saulė, all in sense ‘sun’, and Early Irish, Irish súil eye.The Indo-European base apparently originally had stem-final -l in the nominative and accusative singular and -n in other cases, although the paradigm was levelled (generally in favour of stem-final -l ) in most languages at an early date. The original distribution is still reflected in Old Avestan huuarə̄ (genitive χvə̄ṇg ). The attested forms in the various Indo-European languages reflect considerable variation in the underlying base. For comparable Indo-European heteroclitic stems compare fire n. and water n. Germanic developments. In Germanic the original nominative base survives with levelling in North Germanic (compare Old Icelandic sól (feminine) and the other Scandinavian forms cited above) and also in Gothic sauil (neuter), which is attested only in the nominative, so levelling cannot be proved here. The (rare and late) Old English sōl probably shows a borrowing from early Scandinavian or Latin rather than an inherited form reflecting the Indo-European base. All branches of Germanic also show the development of a new formation in which the reflex of the Indo-European oblique base is assimilated to the n -stem declension (compare Gothic sunno , weak feminine, although a neuter dative singular form sunnin is twice attested, perhaps reflecting the original gender). In the West Germanic languages (including Old English) the n -stem is the norm, usually a weak feminine; weak masculine forms are also occasionally attested, but are much less common (compare Old English sunna , Middle Dutch son (Dutch zon ) Old Saxon sunno , Old High German sunno (Middle High German sunne )). In some Middle English compounds a first element in the form sunne or sonne may reflect the Old English genitive singular sunnan . Further note on gender. The predominantly feminine gender of the word in the Germanic languages contrasts with the masculine gender of the word for ‘moon’; the converse is true in Latin and Greek, which may have influenced the change of gender agreement in early modern English (see note at sense 1a). Compare also the various personifications illustrated at sense 1b.
I. The bright celestial object at the centre of the solar system, and related senses.
1.
a. 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 west; the central body of the solar system, around which the earth and other planets orbit, and which by its changing position relative to the earth's axis determines the seasons.In modern astronomy the sun is regarded as a star of a type known as a G2 dwarf, a sphere of hydrogen and helium 1.4 million km in diameter which obtains its energy from nuclear fusion reactions deep in its interior. Its surface temperature is a little under 6000°C, but internally temperatures are calculated to reach 15 million degrees or more.The ordinary language relating to the sun's course, its rising and setting, etc., is based on the old view of the sun as a body moving through the zodiac, rising above and sinking below the horizon, passing across the heavens, etc. In the Ptolemaic system it was regarded as one of the planets.After the disappearance of the grammatical genders of Old English, in which sunne was feminine, the feminine was used when referring to the sun by a gendered pronoun (without necessarily implying personification) until about the middle of the 15th cent. After this the masculine pronoun was also commonly used in literary language (perhaps following ancient Greek and classical Latin), gradually supplanting the feminine in early modern English, but neuter agreement became normal in ordinary language. Cf. moon n.1 1d.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > sun > [noun]
lightOE
sunOE
Phoebusc1275
the sheenc1400
Titana1413
solc1450
wheel1558
day-sun1570
day star1596
king of day1596
flame-god1598
Aten1877
OE Beowulf (2008) 606 Siþþan morgenleoht ofer ylda bearn oþres dogores, sunne sweglwered suþan scineð.
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 21 Mar. (2013) 68 Ac on domesdæge, þonne ure drihten edniwað ealle gesceafte.., þonne scineð seo sunne seofon siðum beorhtre ðonne heo nu do.
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxxii. 31 Sona eode sunna upp.
lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. ix. 258 Ðonne seo sunne on hadrum heofone beorhtost scineð, þonne aþeostriað ealle [ste]orran.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7273 Æst tær þe sunne riseþþ.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13879 Ær þe sunne [c1300 Otho sonne] eode to grunde.
a1300 Passion our Lord 479 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 50 Þe sonne bileuede hire lyht.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 27 Þe briȝtnesse of þe zonne.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 1147 The Sonne arist, the weder cliereth.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 291 In þe sune þat schines clere Es a thing and thre thinges sere; A bodi rond, and hete and light.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B xviii. l. 243 How þe sonne gan louke her liȝte in her-self, Whan she seye hym suffre þat sonne & se made.
?a1450 ( J. Lydgate Serpent of Division (McClean) (1911) 55 As Phebus, þe sonne, whan he arisith in þe Oryent.
?a1500 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 232 C. Wherefore is the son rede at even? M. For he gothe toward hell.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxxviii. B So the Sonne turned ten degrees bacward, the which he was descended afore.
a1555 H. Latimer Frutefull Serm. (1572) ii. 161 Not that the sunne it selfe of her [1607 his] substaunce shall be darckened.
a1569 A. Kingsmill Conf. containing Conflict with Satan sig. A.viiiv, in Most Excellent & Comfortable Treat. (1577) Whatsoeuer hath proceeded out of his mouth, shall not passe, but remaine beyond the days of the sunne.
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xv. 7 Ȝe Mariguildis, forbid the sune To oppin ȝow euerie morrow!
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. i. §17 How much bigger the Sun may bee then hee seems.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 247 For yet the Sun Was not; shee in a cloudie Tabernacle Sojourn'd the while. View more context for this quotation
a1795 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 123 Now the sinn keeks in the west.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 292 When the sun rises red, wind and rain may be expected during the day.
1856 T. De Quincey Daughter of Lebanon in Select. Grave & Gay V. 280 Up rose the sun on the thirtieth morning in all his pomp.
1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man i. 9 The sun is..an incandescent globe surrounded by an immense luminous envelope of vapours.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage cxviii. 626 There was a nip in the air; but the sky was cloudless, and the sun was shining yellow.
1966 R. M. Lucas Nature's Med. vii. 86 The sunflower not only changes direction but also turns upward, keeping face to face with the sun as it climbs higher in the sky.
2007 D. A. Weintraub Is Pluto a Planet? xi. 154 Oort concluded that the Sun was surrounded by a vast, spherical cloud of comets.
b. The sun, often personified, as an object of worship in various religions, sometimes being identified with any of various gods or goddesses. Cf. sun god n., sun goddess n.The sun has been widely worshipped throughout history. When imagined or regarded as a god it has frequently been personified as male but has also been personified as female, as for example by the ancient Egyptians; cf. moon n.1 1d.In some (typically Indo-European) mythological traditions, including classical and Hindu mythology, the sun is said to be drawn in a chariot or carried by a horse to explain its apparent movement across the sky each day; cf. sun chariot n. at Compounds 5a, sun horse n. at Compounds 5a. It is also sometimes said to be carried in a boat, as in ancient Egyptian mythology; cf. sun barge n. at Compounds 5a, sun bark n. at Compounds 5a, sun boat n. at Compounds 5a.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > specific thing as > the sun as
sunOE
sun god?1592
flame-god1598
sun goddess1839
Aten1877
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxxiii. 286 Efne ða on ærnemerigen comon ða hæðengildan mid ungerimum folce, and atugon ða apostolas..to þære sunnan temple.
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 314 Datianus..swor ðurh ða sunnan, and ðurh ealle his godas, þæt he mid mislicum witum hine wolde fordon.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Bodl.) (1981) l. 97 (MED) Þe feont..makeð men..to makie swucche maumez of treo oðer of stan..of gold oðer of seoluer ant ȝeouen ham misliche nomen of sunne oðer of mone.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6953 Saturnus heo ȝiuen Sætterdæi þene sunne heo ȝiuen Sonedæi.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 979 (MED) Phebus, which is the Sonne hote..hadde a Sone..Which Pheton hihte.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 270 A worthi weriour, That Cethes hiȝt..And he was sone also to the sonne.
c1480 (a1400) St. Thomas Apostle 605 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 146 Gere hym mak som offeringe til oure gret god, þe sene.
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) 367 Thir vowis maid to syn and mone.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 45 The sunne was so in his mumps vppon it, that it was almost noone before hee could goe to cart that day.
1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. B I plac'd diuine Apollo Within the Sunnes bright Chariot.
1637 J. Milton Comus 3 Who knowes not Circe The daughter of the Sun?
1674 S. Vincent Young Gallant's Acad. 26 Till the Suns Car-horses stand prancing on the very top of highest Noon.
1727 J. Gay Fables I. xxviii. 95 Parent of light, all-seeing Sun.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 215 A Persian, humble servant of the sun.
1887 A. Lang Myth, Ritual & Relig. (1899) I. 125 In Samoa the sun had a child by a Samoan woman.
1904 G. A. Dorsey Mythol. Wichita 18 Next in importance and dignity is the Sun, who not only gives his light, but assists in the growth of everything and in keeping the earth fresh and sweet.
1961 G. Lienhardt Divinity & Experience ii. v. 171 Garo, the son of the Sun, is defeated by Dak the son of Nyikang.
2016 Times (Nexis) 24 June t2 12 Phaeton trying to drive the chariot of the sun.
c. In similes and comparisons with reference to the brightness, radiance, etc., of the sun. Also in figurative comparisons to the clearness of the sun: highly obvious, plainly evident, totally unambiguous; cf. sun-clear adj. at Compounds 5a.
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the world > the universe > sun > [noun] > with reference to brightness or clearness
sunOE
fairnessa1400
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxvii. 248 Ða halgan martyras ða ut eodon of ðam scræfe togeanes ðam casere, and heora nebwlitu scean swa swa sunne.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) 772 Seouensiðes brihtre þen beo þe sunne.
a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 156 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 52 Þe holi gost from heuene to hire com ful son..ant scon ase briste so sonne abouten non.
c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) l. 152 (MED) It was of a precious ston; As briȝt as þe sonne it schon.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1695 (MED) An egle of gold þat schynaþ briȝt so doþ þe sonne on may.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17866 Briȝter þenne þe sonnes beme.
a1450 ( in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 49 Now are þey fayre angels pere, As shynyng sune in goddis syȝt.
c1480 (a1400) St. Julian 446 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 471 Fere mare clere þane is þe sowne in myd-ȝere.
1547 A. Cope Godly Meditacion sig. Aa.ii They shall shyne as bryght as the sunne in thy glorious kyngdome.
1582 W. Allen Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom sig. e1, e1v As euery of the rest,..did..proue and declare, as cleare as the sunne.
1644 C. Jessop Angel Church of Ephesus 32 It is as cleare as the Sunne,..that a Bishop and a Presbyter are..the same.
a1699 J. Cooper Μισθοσκοπια (1700) 16 Ten thousand times more Radiant than the Sun in it's Noon-day brightness.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 279 The celeberrimous Doctor has made the thing as clear as the Sun.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 13 I,..Will clothe her for her bridals like the sun.
1935 H. Heslop Last Cage Down i. ii. 13 Some boilers aspire to a brass cock-tap, and in such a case this must be kept shining like the sun.
2011 K. L. Painter Bad Blood xxiii. 236 You shine like..the sun itself.
d. In figurative contexts and extended metaphors in which the shining of the sun represents or symbolizes glory, joy, good fortune, etc.
ΚΠ
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 67 The sonne of all the world is dimme and darke.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 306 Sa bricht a sone began to shine, that al Jnglismen was dung out of hail Scotland.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. ix. §1 747 His Sunne shined now in the height of his course, and with brightest and warmest beames of prosperitie.
1883 E. Lynn Linton Ione I. ix. 225 Though both father and mother had made unmistakeable overtures to him in the first days, and when his sun was shining bright, they had dropped him now when he was broken and his sun was eclipsed.
1911 Journeyman Barber Aug. 233/1 If a man has no use for me when his sun is bright and his stars are shining clear, I will naturally have no use for him when heavy clouds affect his horizon.
1993 A. Nichols Panther & Hind (1994) i. 30 Huldrych Zwingli and Johann Bullinger at Zurich..represented the theological beau idéal of radical Churchmen... But increasingly even their suns were outshone by Geneva's glory, Calvin.
2. Chiefly with modifying word or in plural.
a. Used with reference to the sun's position in the sky (or occasionally the zodiac), or its aspect or visibility at a particular time, in a particular place, when looking in a particular direction, etc.See also midnight sun n. at midnight n. and adj. Compounds 2, noon-sun n., rising sun n. 1, setting sun n. 1a.In quot. 1819 in figurative context; cf. one's sun is (also has) set at Phrases 2a(c).
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the world > the universe > sun > [noun] > at specific time or position
suneOE
rising sun1557
setting sun1560
noon-sun1601
midnight sun1787
noon1858
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. iii. 264 Ða stefne..he cwæð þæt he ærest geherde from eastsuðdæle heofones, þæt is from heanisse þære winterlecan sunnan upgonge.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 7 Whan..the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 326 The cornel rise vppon the wynter sonne; And gire hit from the colde west, if thow conne.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 98 Like to the corne that standes on stake, Which mowen in winter sunne: Full faire without, within is black: Such heat therin doth runne.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 88 Duma. As faire as day. Ber. I as some dayes, but then no Sunne must shine. View more context for this quotation
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 84 Some have set them just in the mids betweene both Sunnes, to wit the setting of it with the Antipodes, and the rising of it with us.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 110 So that the ground lye vpon the South Sunne, and fenced from cold windes.
1709 A. Pope Autumn in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 744 And the low Sun had lengthen'd ev'ry Shade.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 16/1 We shou'd also observe what Suns our House stands to.
1819 Ld. Byron Mazeppa xvii. 721 With just enough of life to see My last of suns go down on me.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 367 The fiery empire of Assyrian conquerors sank like a tropic sun.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iii. 103 A glen which sloped towards the southern sun.
1894 J. F. Hewitt Ruling Races Prehist. Times I. iii. 271 The Egyptian five, Osiris, Isis, Horus, Set, Nebt-hat, mark the opposition between the Northern sun of summer and the Southern sun of winter, which is so prominently noticed in Egyptian ritualistic astronomy.
1929 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 74 The lot on which it is built..has few trees to break the force of wintry gales or offer shade from the midsummer sun.
2013 W. Nicholson Motherland (2014) xxix. 308 The evening sun, low in the sky, casts deep shadows over the bowls and billows of the Downs.
b. Used with reference to the heat of the sun.In quot. 1852: climate, climatic region.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > prevailing weather or climate
temperurea1387
heavena1398
temper1483
sunc1540
climate1548
sky1583
temperament1583
clime1597
meteorologicsc1600
climature1615
meteorology1684
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 7 With voiders vnder vines for violent sonnes.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 99 A Mediterranean Sun, makes him as dry and huskish in one Summer, as a toasted Bisket.
1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 8 In strong Winds and Suns the Casks shrink.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. viii. 218 I would..toil under eastern suns, in Asian deserts.
1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 101 Underneath another sun.
1915 Catholic World Jan. 488 Here was MacBrayne, a dried up little Scotsman, with a fringe of white beard round a face burned to mahogany by Eastern suns.
1969 Life 24 Oct. 7 (advt.) Ask your travel agent to put you on the only airline that flies to all seven suns.
2016 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 4 June The angular slats regulate light and heat, protecting the interiors from the brutal Middle Eastern sun and wind and reducing the hotel's energy usage.
3. The direct rays of the sun; sunlight; sunshine. Originally and chiefly in prepositional phrases. Also figurative (cf. in the sun at Phrases 1d).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine
sunOE
sun gleamc1225
sunlightc1275
sunshinea1325
sun-shiningc1400
sunningc1595
shine1622
sun gold1868
ray1957
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 7 Mar. (2013) 62 He sæt ute on sunnan ond eallum ðæm wependum broðrum..he sealde sibbe coss.
OE Lacnunga (2001) I. iii. 4 Gelicge upweard wið hatre sunnan, & ahoh þæt heafod nyþerweard.
c1300 St. Bridget (Laud) 41 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 193 Þe sonne schon In at one hole.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4075 Ben ðese hangen ðe sunne agen.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 1307 Quod he, ‘Thanne hove out of mi Sonne, And let it schyne into mi Tonne’.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 10 On þe schire Thursday make þai þat breed..and dries it at þe soune.
c1480 (a1400) St. Mary of Egypt 223 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 302 Brynt with þe sone, blak scho vas.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth viii. sig. E.ii In sommer kepe your necke and face from the sonne.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 20 Wash shepe..wher water doth run, and let them go clenly (and dry) in the Sunne.
1659 in W. Mure Select. Family Papers Caldwell (1854) I. 92 Sett it under the sone in the Caniculare dayes.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 3 Yonder bank hath choice of Sun or shade. View more context for this quotation
?a1700 Bessy Bell & Mary Gray in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 77 To biek forenent the sin.
1775 Earl of Carlisle in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) III. 113 Clear frosty days, with a great deal of sun.
1812 S. Edwards New Bot. Garden I. 78 Exposed to the full sun in some dry airy situation.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 98 There was still an hour's sun when we got here.
1929 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 27/1 Our present-day civilization keeps many of us out of the sun for most of every day.
1952 Life 30 June 33/1 (heading) Doze in the sun.
2015 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 15 Aug. b1 Outside, stacks of wood planks dry in the sun.
4.
†a. Sunrise as determining the start of a day; sunset as determining the end of a day. Obsolete (in later use frequently North American regional).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [noun] > sunrise or sunset
sunrising1370
sunseta1393
suna1400
sunrisec1400
sunrist?a1450
sunup1572
sunsetting1575
a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) l. 384 (MED) Alle maner of men in þe morowe scholde Be sone after þe sonne assembled in þe felde.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2303 (MED) Þe secund day before þe son he at þe cite wildid.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 281 Eftir the sone Wallas walkit about Vpon Tetht side.
1637 Town Rec. Salem (Mass.) in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1869) IX. 66 The keeper..to take the Cattle at the pen at sun halfe an hower.
1771 G. Washington Diary 5 July (1925) II. 27 Finishd the Wheat in the Neck abt. two Hours by Sun in the afternoon.
1839 E. B. Pusey in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) II. xxii. 100 By to-morrow's sun she will be, by God's mercy.., where there is no need of the sun.
1882 W. A. Baillie-Grohman Camps in Rockies 218 I usually began fishing ‘an hour by sun’—the trapper expression for an hour before sunset.
b. A day. Often with preceding ordinal number in expressions referring to a period of time consisting of a number of days; also more generally in idiomatic phrases denoting a very long period of time, as many suns ago, for many suns, etc. Cf. moon n.1 6a.In recent use mainly in representations of the speech of traditional peoples.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > reckoned in different ways
natural dayc1395
sun1491
nautical day1771
sol1976
1491 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1491/4/13 Nochtwithstanding the xl dais oure thre sonnis contenit in the aulde lawis, the partii foloware beand present or warnit to be thare gif ony will persew the actioune.
1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies f. 45v Golde..was brought them from a region called Canchieta, or Cauchieta, beyng distant from them sixe sunnes, that is, sixe dayes iourney westward.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. i. 123 By the first houre of the Sunne . View more context for this quotation
1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster iii. 38 Your vowes are frost fast, for a night, And with the next Sunne gone.
1768 J. Cranwell tr. M. Vida Christiad i. 19 Four Suns had risen and four sunk to Night.
1827 W. Scott Highland Widow in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xi. 203 He might count the days which could bring Hamish back to Breadalbane, and number those of his life within three suns more.
1855 R. Browning Statue & Bust in Men & Women I. 166 She turned from it [sc. a picture] all night to scheme Of tearing it out for herself next sun.
1893 C. H. Litchman Official Hist. of Improved Order of Red Men v. 251 Weeks and days were termed ‘seven suns’ and ‘suns’.
1966 Boys' Life Nov. 37/2 They feared the wide river that took seven suns and seven moons to cross.
2000 W. Grady tr. B. Assiniwi Beothuk Saga i. ix. 50 She had imagined terrible things happening to him in the six suns he had been away.
†c. In plural. poetic. A long period of time; years. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > year > [noun]
wintereOE
yeareOE
yearOE
yearOE
yearOE
twelvemonthc1275
a time and times and half a timec1384
foil1481
zodiacc1560
twelve moons1609
suns1743
outfit1791
snow1825
season1827
yr1880
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 45 Virtue, not rolling Suns, the Mind matures.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 106 The thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
5.
a. A depiction or stylized representation of the sun, esp. as surrounded by rays. Also: an ornament, vessel, or other object having or incorporating the shape of a stylized representation of the sun and its rays.In quots. 1463-4, 1636, and 1770 as the sign (and hence name) of an inn or shop.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [noun] > others
sunc1400
T1621
floscule1669
cauliflower1803
leaf shape1804
map1822
sphendone1847
thistle1891
turkey-foot1932
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house
houseOE
tavern1297
tavern-housea1400
sunc1400
tap-house1500
tippling-housea1549
innsc1550
bousing-inn1575
ivy-bush1576
osteria1580
ordinary1590
caback1591
taberna1593
bousing-house1594
pothouse1598
red lattice1604
cupping-house1615
public house1617
busha1625
Wirtshaus1650
bibbery1653
cabaret1656
gaming ordinary1667
public1685
shop1695
bibbing-housea1704
dram-shop1725
gill house1728
rum shop1738
buvette1753
dram-house1753
grog-shop1790
wine-vault1791
pub1800
pulperia1818
pulqueria1822
potation-shop1823
rum hole1825
Wirtschaft1834
drunkery1836
pot shop1837
drinkery1840
rum mill1844
khazi1846
beer-shop1848
boozer1895
rub-a-dub1898
Weinstube1899
rubbity-dub1905
peg house1922
rub-a-dub-dub1932
rubbity1941
Stube1946
superpub1964
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > tavern sign
lion?a1366
ale stake1396
ivy14..
sunc1400
tokenc1440
eagle1449
chequerc1460
wisp?1507
Saracen's head1510
ale-pole1523
bush1532
wine garland1533
ivy-garland1553
tavern-bush1553
lattice1575
ivy-bush1576
alebush1599
red lattice1604
elephanta1616
sagittarya1616
grate1622
wine-bush1638
popinjay1687
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxxiii. 286 Ða stod þære sunnan cræt mid feower horsum of golde agoten, on ane healfe þæs temples.]
c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 463 All clothed in white,..with sonnys [c1450 Cambr. sons] of golde on theire garmentes.
1463–4 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 247 Item, ffor wyne at the Sone in Lumbart Stret, viij.d. ob.
1613 G. Chapman Memorable Maske Inns of Court sig. A2 Betwixt euery set of feathers..shin'd Sunnes of golde plate, sprinkled with pearle.
1636 J. Taylor Trav. Signes Zodiack D 7 The Sun at Saint Mary Hill.
1769 Ann. Reg. 1768 i. 63/2 A magnificent sun of gold, ornamented with diamonds..was placed in the chapel of the palace.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 103 Anthony Kytson, in 1555, kept a shop at the sign of the Sun, in St. Paul's Church-yard.
a1818 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 243/1 A superb vessel of gold, called the Sun of the Holy Sacrament.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. iv. 315 Ciboriums, suns, candelabras.
1905 O. C. Whitehouse Isaiah I–XXXIX I. 107 The ‘little suns’ and ‘little moons’ were doubtless used as amulets, and had a magical significance.
1940 Burlington Mag. Dec. 196/2 The angel of revenge is a winged woman, wearing a sun, the attribute of Truth and Virtue on her breast.
2005 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Oct. 8 His tie is emblazoned with suns and sailing boats.
b. Heraldry. A representation of the sun, surrounded by rays (typically wavy and straight alternately) and often charged with the features of a human face. Cf. Sun in his Splendour at Phrases 4c.The wavy and straight rays are often said to represent the heat and light of the sun respectively.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of heavenly bodies or phenomena > [noun] > sun
sun1572
splendour1766
setting sun1779
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie f. 90 Hys fielde is of the Saphire, the Sunne propre, or thus. He beareth Azure, a Sunne d'Or.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iv. iv. 15 in Wks. II He beares In a field Azure, a Sunne proper, beamy.
1680 G. Mackenzie Sci. Herauldry 39 Argent, three cheverons brased..in base, a Sun in chief azur.
1722 A. Nisbet Syst. Heraldry I. ix. 39 The Crest of the Family, the Sun beaming through a Cloud proper.
1860 L. Butters & J. MacLaren Fairbairn's Bk. Crests Families Great Brit. & Irel. (rev. ed.) I. 283/1 Two flexed arms.., supporting the sun.
1949 Scotsman 6 July 6/6 I trust the College of Arms do not claim that the Plantagenet badge of a Sun represented royal power.
2013 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 20 Mar. The shield itself..depicts a star, a grape-like plant, and a monogram of Christ at the centre of a fiery sun.
II. A person, thing, etc. likened to or thought to resemble the sun.
6.
a. A person or thing considered as a source of glory, virtue, joy, etc., comparable to the sun as a source of light and heat. See also sun of righteousness at Phrases 4a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [noun] > chief of its or his kind
sunOE
lordOE
princec1225
primatec1384
princessc1390
giant1535
queen1554
first gentleman1584
Prester John1598
arch1605
gigant1610
principate1651
top-stone1659
first lady1677
Shakespeare1821
king1829
prius1882
aristocrat1883
Sun King1971
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > according to other attributes
horn of salvation (health)c825
fatherOE
Our FatherOE
leecha1200
searcher of (men's) heartsa1382
untempter1382
headstone of the cornerc1400
Valentinec1450
illuminator1485
sun?1521
righteous maker1535
shepherd1535
verity1535
strengthener1567
gracer1592
heart-searcher1618
heartbreaker1642
sustainera1680
philanthropist1730
the invisible1781
praise1782
All-Father1814
wisdom1855
omniscient1856
engracer1866
inbreather1873
God of the gaps1933
the great —— in the sky1968
OE Phoenix 587 Þær seo soþfæste sunne lihteð wlitig ofer weoredum in wuldres byrig.
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 382 (MED) Þou art a sonne þat warmest, for þou art not wiþout þe hete of charite.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 360 Schal ye from vs passe, swete sonne of socoure.
?1521 J. Fisher Serm. agayn Luther sig. Aij The lyght of fayth (yt shyneth, from ye spyrytuall sonne almyghty god).
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) iii. 306 Heyle vyrgyn mother of god, thow arte the sonne of the day aboue and the mone of the nighte of the worlde.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xliv. sig. D3 When thou shalt strangely passe, And scarcely greete me with that sunne thine eye. View more context for this quotation
?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads Anagram Henrye Prince of Wales ovr Svnn, Heyr, Peace, Life.
1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. xii. 473 That eternal Word,..the great intelligible Sun of the whole Rational World.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. iii. 5 Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.
1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children xi. 86 Any one of the Lizas and Pollies and Susies, the suns who had..lighted his heart's firmament.
1917 Motion Picture Classic Jan. 54/3 Where they take you—oh, Sun of my Heaven!—there will be no escape, and no one to seek you out.
1962 S. Ennis tr. P. Sayers Old Woman's Refl. xvii. 128 I am parting with you, beautiful little place, sun of my life.
2011 D. Benton Frank Folly Beach iii. 32 And you, little Dorothy, you are my sun, my moon, and my stars!
b. An attribute or quality considered as coming or going in a way comparable to the sun as it rises, sets, is concealed by clouds, etc.See also one's sun is (also has) set at Phrases 2a(c).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > source or symbol of
sunOE
welfarea1413
cornucopia1592
horn of plenty (also abundancec1595
the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [noun] > source of happiness
sunOE
felicityc1385
sunlighta1450
sunshine1589
OE Seven Sleepers (Otho) (1994) 56 [We wuldriað þe inweardre heortan þæt þu us woldest on eorðan þinre] rihtwisnysse sunnan oneowan.
?1387 T. Wimbledon Serm. (Corpus Cambr.) (1967) 97 (MED) Þe sunne of vndirstondyng haþ not rysen to vs.
c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 38 (MED) Charite is also þe sonne of al good affecciouns hele of good maneris.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 147 The starres of naturall inclination, are sometimes obscured by the sunne of discipline and vertue.
1699 Royal Sufferer: Man. of Medit. & Devotions 25 How strange was the Exaltation of Cosmus de Medices Of Florence, whom Machiavel..tells us, liv'd all his Youth obscure and miserable; when on a sudden the Sun of his Glory shin'd forth, as from under a cloud?
1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 21 When joy's bright sun has shed his evening ray.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 163 When the sun of my prosperity began to arise.
1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. xxi. 613 The sun of the Plantagenets went down in clouds and thick darkness.
1913 E. Wingfield-Stratford Hist. Eng. Patriotism I. i. x. 354 We shall never more see the sun of Thy truth again.
2006 C. Colter Chasing Dreams viii. 150 He shook off the dark cloud that tried to block the sun of his happiness.
7. A bright light in the sky like the sun; a parhelion. Cf. mock sun n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > mock-sun
sunOE
parhelion?1574
sun dog1635
mock sun1645
parhelic circle1886
OE Prognostics (Tiber.) (2007) 318 Soles duas uiderit, honorem significat : sunnan twa gesihð wyrðscip ge[tacnað].
a1400 (?c1280) Nativity Mary & Christ (Stowe) (1975) l. 436 (MED) Þre sonnen wel ver by este in heuene me ysay.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iii. l. 324 (MED) By syx sonnes and a schippe and half a shef of arwes.
?a1556 Grey Friars Chron. anno 1551 in R. Howlett Monumenta Franciscana (1882) II. 231 A-bowte Ester was sene..iii. sonnes shenynge at..one tyme in the eyer, that thei cowde not dysserne wyche shulde be the very sonne.
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 123 In the seventeenth yeare of his Raign, were seene five Suns at one time together.
1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 138 The next Morning we saw three Suns in the Heavens; but the Brightness of the two unusual Phœnomenas the two seeming Suns was not comparable to that of the real Sun.
1896 T. Martin tr. Virgil Æneid iv. (470) When he sees troops of Furies, and two suns, And duplicated Thebes before him rise.
1966 Geogr. Rec. 56 287 Nearer to the 90°E meridian the apparently false sun rose to a maximal height of at least half a diameter, though highly distorted in shape.
2016 Guardian (Nexis) 2 July Late last year in Russia, hexagonal ice-crystals formed in the air causing three suns to set at once, in a phenomenon known as a parhelion.
8. A luminous body likened to the sun; a star, with or without planets.In early examples (before the late 19th century) used only in imagined or poetic contexts.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > star > [noun] > as centre of system
suna1393
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 3452 A liht, as thogh it were a Sunne.
1597 G. Markham tr. G. Pétau de Maulette Deuoreux cii. f. 18 Theyr flie-inchaunting notes, aboue the beames Of other sunnes.
1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 35 The Moone moues lowest, siluer Sunne of Night.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 148 Other Suns perhaps With thir attendant Moons thou wilt descrie. View more context for this quotation
1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 196 Other planets circle other suns.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 75 Till the bear had wheel'd Thro' a great arc his seven slow suns.
1884 A. Giberne in Sunday Mag. Nov. 713/2 Stars of all colours,..white suns and red suns, blue suns and purple suns, green suns and golden suns.
1925 Sci. Monthly Sept. 323 So far as we now know all the planets, suns and stars within range of our telescopes are composed of the same sort of matter.
1955 C. S. Lewis Magician's Nephew v. 61 Low down and near the horizon hung a great, red sun, far bigger than our sun.
1997 Harper's Mag. Mar. 38/2 The dark patches between constellations are..dense interstellar obstructions through which light from distant suns cannot pass.
2016 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Apr. (Science section) [The Kepler observatory's] discoveries include a Tatooine-like planet with two suns (Kepler 16b).
†9. Alchemy. Chiefly with the. Gold. Obsolete.Quot. a1393 shows an earlier association of gold with the sun. Cf. moon n.1 9a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > alchemy > other alchemical substances or theories > [noun] > gold
sola1386
suna1400
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2467 (MED) The gold is titled to the Sonne, The mone of Selver hath his part.]
a1400 in D. W. Singer Catal. Lat. & Vernacular Alchemical MSS (1931) II. 408 (MED) Take the wyght of iiij nobilles of fyne sun and clippe ham in smale pecces.
a1500 in D. W. Singer Catal. Lat. & Vernacular Alchemical MSS (1928) I. 304 (MED) Tak j quarter oz of the sone and di. of the mone purgyd, And mak of both thes sotyl powder lymal.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. i. sig. D The great medicine! Of which one part proiected on a hundred Of Mercurie, or Venus, or the Moone, Shall turne it, to as many of the Sunne . View more context for this quotation
1651 J. French Art Distillation vi. 197 It will resolve the bodies of the Sunne, and Moone.
1673 W. Cooper tr. J. F. Helvetius Golden Calf ii. 8 in Philos. Epit. Every Alchymist who hath the Astrum of the Sun, can transmute all red Metals into Gold, &c.
†10. Heraldry. With the. The tincture or (or n.1 2), as used in the fanciful blazon of arms of sovereign houses. Obsolete (rare in later use).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > metal > gold or yellow
goldc1460
or?1530
topaz1562
sun1572
sol1610
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 108 The Garbe is of the Sonne royally supported with two Lyons.
1909 A. C. Fox-Davies Compl. Guide Heraldry vii. 77 Even the planets..are occasionally employed: thus, the sun for gold, the moon for silver..and Mercury for purple.
11. A kind of circular firework, either for military purposes or for display. Cf. sun wheel n. 1. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > rotating or Catherine wheel
firewheel1607
wheel1629
sun1741
sun wheel1749
Catherine wheel1761
pinwheel1765
spur-fire1765
cartwheel1840
1741 London Daily Post 31 July We hear, that the Curious Alterations, and Additional Fireworks, (such as Cohorns, the Sun, Wheel, &c. made and perform'd by the Ingenious Mr. Warman) at Cuper's Gardens last Night, met with universal Applause.
1749 Descr. Machine for Fireworks 10 A large vertical Sun moved by double Fires.
1842 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. 93 Gloire,..fixed sun in fireworks of very large dimension.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 1933/2 Revolving-sun, a pyrotechnic device, consisting of a wheel upon whose periphery rockets of different styles are fixed.
1919 H. B. Faber Mil. Pyrotechnics I. ii. vi. 141 From this second turning sun, the fire may be conducted to a second fixed sun; and so on successively to any desired extent.
2008 N. Hargreaves & C. Macy tr. E. Monin in S. Bonnemaison & C. Macy Festival Archit. vii. 169 (caption) Fire whirlwind (100), fixed sun (101), fuse (102), spinning sun (103), alternative form of fixed sun (104), decorative rocket filled with firecrackers (105), and spinning fire wheel (106).
†12. A sunfish (see sunfish n. 1b). Cf. sunny n. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Lepomis (sun-fish)
bream1634
roach1637
sunfish1685
round robin1709
yellowbelly1775
redbelly1791
brim1795
sun perch1804
pumpkin seed1815
sunny1835
bluegill1877
redbreast1877
tobacco-box1877
red-eared sunfish1889
shell-cracker1889
sun1896
redear1931
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Pomotis
sunfish1685
sun perch1804
sunny1835
mud bass1884
sun1896
1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 113 There were in the waters of Virginia when first explored, grampus,..perch, tailor, sun,..pike, and breme.

Phrases

P1. Prepositional phrases.
a. under (or beneath) the sun.
(a) On earth, in the world, in existence. Frequently in hyperbolic expressions emphasizing the uniqueness or striking number, extent, etc., of something. Formerly also without definite article.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > [adverb] > situation
here971
under the sunOE
on (the) grounda1000
an-earthOE
on (the) moulda1350
OE Andreas (1932) 1013 Gode þancade þæs ðe hie onsunde æfre moston geseon under sunnan.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 34 (MED) Þet is under sunne þinge me laðest.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 912 Þar beoð men þat lutel kunne Of songe þat is bineoðe þe sunne [a1300 Jesus Oxf. vnder sunne].
c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) l. 811 (MED) Rouland..wos þe gladdeste man vnder sonne.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 57 To alle crystyn men vndir sunne.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 4300 Na supowell vndire son seke we vs neuire.
1508 W. Dunbar Ballade Barnard Stewart in Poems (1998) I. 178 Moste aunterus and able Wndir the soun that beris helme or scheild.
1560 W. Fitzwilliam Let. in J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1863) VIII. 16 There was not under the sun a more craftier vipered undermining generation.
a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qqq2v/1 There fights no braver souldier under Sun, gentlemen.
1682 T. D'Urfey Royalist iv. ii. 48 Why he's a pushing Captain, that will fight any thing under the Sun upon any Cause.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 6. ⁋1 I know no Evil under the Sun so great.
1793 M. Barker Welsh Story I. xv. 217 Women are got into a most horrid way of stretching their mouths open, and squalling out what nobody can understand; and quavering, like nothing under the sun.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxiii. 102 While we breathe beneath the sun . View more context for this quotation
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Yankee in Canada (1866) ii. 22 What under the sun they were placed there for..was not apparent.
1935 H. Edib Clown & his Daughter xxiv. 130 Who would believe that any city under the sun could produce such crowds, such colour!
2015 Radio Times 11 July (South/West ed.) 103/1 ‘I've got access to every kind of music under the sun,’ he marvels.
(b) there is nothing new under the sun and variants: whatever may seem new or original is unlikely to be a genuine innovation; there is never or rarely anything new or original in the world. Later also in allusive statements asserting that something is a genuine innovation.Sometimes, esp. in early use, with allusion to Ecclesiastes 1:9 (1:10 in some versions); cf. quot. a1382. [In early use after post-classical Latin nihil sub sole novum (Vulgate) and perhaps also after German nichts Neues unter der Sonne (Luther 1524; compare quot. c1545), both after an expression in biblical Hebrew.]
ΚΠ
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Eccles. i. 10 No thing vnder the sunne newe.
c1545 Bokes Salomon f. xxxix The thynge that hath bene done, is done agayne, there is no new thyng vnder the sonne.
1599 R. Pont Newe Treat. Right Reckoning of Yeares 66 There is nothing new vnder the Sun, but that which is newe, hath bene in the ages before, and the like shall be hereafter.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. i. viii. 26 These are new things vnder the Sunne, and this a new interpretation, which himselfe prefaceth with Papae! nouam & inauditam exponendi rationem!
a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) i. 2 And what is done, is what is to be done; There's nothing that is new beneath the Sunne.
1737 A. Pope 2nd Epist. of 2nd Bk. Horace, Imitated 9 He walks, an Object new beneath the Sun!
1790 Lady's Mag. June 283/1 That there is nothing new under the sun, is an opinion which will, perhaps, be readily taken up by all who are deeply conversant with ancient history.
1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 362 There is nothing new under the sun—an observation which is indeed verificatory of itself.
1869 Galaxy Feb. 307/1 Nothing is new under the sun—not ‘waterfalls’, crinoline, paniers, not rouge and pearl powder, [etc.].
1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe iv. 218 He said there was nothing new under the sun: and that showed you the kind of twister he was.
1938 Amer. Home Oct. 15/1 Lounge beds are something new under the sun and something that will be appreciated by everyone who lives in an apartment.
2017 Irish Independent (Nexis) 3 June (Review section) 15 As Sherlock Holmes once observed, there's nothing new under the sun.
b. from sun to sun: between sunrise and sunset, during the day. Also †between (also betwixt) sun and sun. Cf. sense 4a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [adverb]
dayseOE
adayc1275
adaysc1400
a daytala1500
from sun to suna1500
up-sun1825
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [adverb] > all day
(all) the long day (also night, etc.)c1275
from sun to suna1500
from morn to (also till) eve (or night)1598
daylong1614
a1500 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 319 And so the xix. day ys xiiij. owres longe and half, fro son to son.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. ii. 68 One score 'twixt Sun, and Sun, Madam's enough for you. View more context for this quotation
1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 141 Take here day for the day-light betweene sunne and sunne.
1636 R. Skinner in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1871) II. Ps. xxvii. 11 If a man, travelling in the King's highway, be robbed between sun and sun.
1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals III. 279 They always robbed between Sun and Sun.
1873 Trans. Wisconsin State Agric. Soc. 11 431 We find her at work early and late, verifying the old rhyme—that ‘Man must work from sun to sun, but woman's work is never done.’
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xi. 98 What you mean, milk a-plenty? They ain't a extry drop left from sun to sun.
2003 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 May a8 He spoke about his father, who ‘worked from sun to sun to carve his livelihood out of the Everglades’.
c. with the sun.
(a) Originally Nautical. In the direction of the sun's apparent movement across the sky; (in the northern hemisphere) from left to right, clockwise. Cf. against the sun at Phrases 1e, sunwise adv. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [adverb]
with the sun1584
sungates1596
sunways1662
sunway1775
sunwise1775
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [adverb] > clockwise
with the sun1584
sungates1596
sunways1662
deasil1771
sunway1775
sunwise1775
clockwise1874
posigrade1975
1584 R. Norman tr. C. Antoniszoon Safegard of Sailers f. 66 And thus must you learne to say your compasse both with the Sunne and against the Sunne.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Rouer à tour, to coil a rope with the sun.
1860 H. Stuart Novice's or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 55 The starboard cable should be bitted with the sun, and the port cable against the sun.
1937 F. Densmore in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas 283 As in other Alabama dances, they moved around the fire, ‘with the sun’, and they zig-zagged from one side to the other.
1979 M. B. Quinion Drink for its Time (Mus. Cider, Hereford) 22 A horn mug would be filled, handed to the first, drained, returned, refilled and given to the second, and so on, always passing ‘with the sun’, that is, clockwise.
2004 Times (Nexis) 12 May 32 The term ‘clockwise’ was first used in 1888, with ‘anticlockwise’ following in 1898. Before that, one simply said ‘with the sun’ for clockwise.
(b) At sunrise or (more generally) early in the morning; (also) at sunset or (more generally) early in the evening. Chiefly in phrases indicating when a person wakes up or goes to sleep, as to get up with the sun, to go to bed with the sun, to rise with the sun, etc.
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1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iii. 134 Vp with the Sunne he rose [It. sorse à parì co'l sole].
1606 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. If you know not Me sig. H4v Faire day my Lords, you are all Larkes this morning, Vp with the Sunne, you are stirring earely.
1694 in T. Brown & J. Savage tr. C. de St. Évremond Misc. Ess. II. i. 109 These unhappy Persons..got up with the Sun.
1748 Biographia Britannica II. 1295/2 He went to rest with the sun, and rose before it.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iv. 36 As we rose with the sun, so we never pursued our labours after it was gone down.
1823 A. Reed No Fiction (ed. 7) II. xxi. 48 He started with the sun to fulfil his intention.
1834 R. Baikie Observ. Neilgherries 59 In the low country, one is compelled to be up with the sun.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 20 We rose with the sun, refreshed and strong.
1923 T. W. Burgess Adventures Reddy Fox ix. 39 You folks who go to bed with the sun don't hear the news until it's old.
1976 Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois) 13 Oct. i. 5/1 Johnson and his son no longer rise with the sun at 4 a.m. to head out to Lake Michigan.
2016 Scottish Daily Mail (Nexis) 8 Jan. 51 With no alarm clocks, people got up with the sun—4am in the summer months.
†d. in the sun. Cf. sense 3.
(a) Free from care or sorrow. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > freedom from trouble, care, or sorrow > free from trouble, care, or sorrow [phrase]
at easec1330
at (a) quiet1603
in the sun1604
society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > [adverb]
in the sun1604
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 67 King. How is it that the clowdes still hang on you. Ham. Not so my Lord, I am too much in the sonne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. v. 36 Who doth ambition shunne, and loues to liue i' th Sunne . View more context for this quotation
(b) Exposed to public view. Obsolete.
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1657 J. Owen Of Schisme i. 14 It is ludicrously said of Physitians, the Effects of their skill lye in the Sunne, but their mistakes are covered in the Church-yard.
(c) one's place in the sun and variants: (originally) an individual share in those things to which all have a right; (subsequently) a favourable or advantageous situation or position, prominence. [Probably ultimately after French sa place au soleil one's place in the sun, one's spot in the sunlight (used symbolically for the concept of ownership) ( B. Pascal Pensées (a1662) §53); in early use in political contexts via German Platz an der Sonne (1897 in the passage translated in quot. 1897).]
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > individual share in
one's place in the sun1901
society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > what is fitting > share in that to which all have right
one's place in the sun1901
the mind > possession > sharing > [noun] > a share > one's due share > of those things to which all have a right
one's place in the sun1901
1897 tr. B. von Bülow in Times 7 Dec. 5/5 We desire to throw no one into the shade, but we also demand our own place in the sunlight [Ger. unseren Platz an der Sonne].]
1901 tr. Kaiser Wilhelm II in Times 20 June 5/4 We have..fought for our place in the sun [Ger. den Platz an der Sonne] and have won it. It will be my business to see that we retain this place in the sun unchallenged, so that the rays of that sun may exert a fructifying influence upon our foreign trade and traffic.
1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon i. iii. 22 Five million pounds spent on the organised travel of a hundred thousand working men..would infect the working class with a feverish desire for a place in the sun. The world is their children's for the taking.
1928 C. R. Longwell in Theory Continental Drift (Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists) 145 Perhaps the very completeness of this iconoclasm, this rebellion against the established order, has served to gain for the new hypothesis a place in the sun.
1967 V. Lincoln Private Disgrace (1968) iii. 37 Lizzie longed for a place in the sun. But..her longing for popularity was self-defeating.
2016 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 19 July We should let them [sc. our young] find their place in the sun and at the pace they find comfortable.
(d) one's (also a, etc.) day (also moment, time, etc.) in the sun: the point at (or period during) which a person or thing achieves the greatest success, attention, or public acclaim, or is vindicated or properly appreciated.
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1923 Washington Post 26 Aug. 21/1 Fall brides will have their day in the sun despite the manifold attractions of the debutante bouquet.
1924 Washington Post 8 July 5/4 Mayor Maloney..has his moment in the sun when North Dakota gives him a vote.
1962 N.Y. Times 11 June e12/2 As shrubs,..choke cherries have no distinction... But right now, in full bloom, they are beautiful. This is their time in the sun, their one brief span of glory.
1976 Newsweek (Nexis) 15 Nov. (Election Special section) 23 He [has]..a slender mandate, untried skills at statecraft, and eleven weeks to prepare himself for his day in the sun.
1996 G. Blair & S. Meadows Real-life Guide to Organizational Change i. 3 Even highly successful organizations need to change as their time in the sun is ever-shortening.
2001 My Business May 20/1 After enduring years of ridicule as dullards who just didn't ‘get it’, those who warned of an Internet bubble are having their day in the sun.
2014 M. Gilbert Sheet Pan Suppers 5/2 I'll occasionally call for unfiltered coconut oil (which is healthy and deliciously sweet, and is currently having a moment in the sun).
e. Originally Nautical. against the sun: against the direction of the sun's apparent movement across the sky; (in the northern hemisphere) from right to left, anticlockwise. Cf. Phrases 1c(a), widdershins adv.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [adverb] > anticlockwise
widdershins1545
against the sun1584
witherwards1624
witherwise1643
anticlockwise1884
counterclockwise1885
1584 R. Norman in tr. C. Antoniszoon Safegard of Sailers f. 66 Thus it is said with the Sunne, & here goeth against the Sunne. North, north and by west, north northwest, and so forth contrarie wise.
1633 tr. Math. Recreations lxxxxvi. 232 That which goes East by going against the Sunne, shall have the day shorter.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 288 A cable coiled against the sun will..have less grinds or kinks in it than a cable coiled with the sun.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. iv. 74 When the wind shifts against the sun, Trust it not, for back it will run.
1962 G. Murchie Music of Spheres iii. 59 Mars' west-rising moon, Phobos, might seem to nonmathematical Martians a withershins moon, moving ‘against the sun’ in accord with the definition of that Scottish adjective.
1998 J. McGowan Inishmurray 29 Following this routine the Big Station was performed in reverse, against the sun or anticlockwise instead of clockwise or with the sun.
f. out of God's blessing into the warm sun: see god n. and int. Phrases 2e.
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a. Phrases with verbs, referring to the setting of the sun.
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(i) don't (also never) let the sun go down on your anger (also wrath, an argument, etc.) (and variants): do not fail to resolve anger, an argument, grievance, etc., before the day is over. Also in infinitive constructions.With allusion to Ephesians 4:26 ‘Let not the sun go down upon your wrath’ (King James version), counselling that animosity or resentment should be abandoned as quickly as possible. [Compare post-classical Latin sol non occidat super iracundiam vestram (Vulgate) and its model Hellenistic Greek ὁ ἥλιος μὴ ἐπιδυέτω ἐπὶ παροργισμῷ ὑμῶν, lit. ‘the sun should not go down on your anger’ (New Testament: Ephesians 4:26).]
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OE Ælfric tr. Basil Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem 46 Ne læt þu þæt yrre licgean on þinre heortan ofer sunnan setlunge, ac foh to sibbe æror.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 89 (MED) On ðan ilche daiȝe ðe ðu tebrecst, ær ðe sunne go te reste, loce ðat tu bie sahtled.]
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Eph. iv. 26 The sunne falle not down on ȝoure wraththe.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Eph. iv. 26 Lett nott the sonne goo doune apon youre wrathe.
1565 J. Hall Courte of Vertue f. 92 Therfore saynt Paule doth say of trauth Let not the sunne rest on your wrath.
1612 L. Bayly Practise of Pietie (ed. 2) 400 If thou haue fallen out with any in the day, let not the Sunne goe downe on thine anger that night.
1708 O. Dykes Moral Reflexions Eng. Prov. xxxvii. 189 And yet we ought not to let the Sun go down upon our Wrath, or our Impenitence.
1846 Rosette 80 Marian Grey must be first forgiven; A frowning angel will stand in your path If you let the sun go down on your wrath.
1865 Frank Leslie's 10 Cent Monthly Feb. 143/2 We took the resolution never to allow the sun to set on our little misunderstandings, so that we should always lie down in peace.
1897 New Eng. Mag. Mar. 96/1 Father used to say, ‘Never let the sun set on your anger, Lucy.’
1917 Health Culture Apr. 173/2 Never let the sun go down on your anger. Do not take your troubles to bed.
1955 Farm Jrnl. & Country Gentleman Oct. 125/1 Practicing ‘Never let the sun go down on a quarrel’ keeps irritations from growing into resentments for at least one family.
1982 D. Fingleton K. Te Kanawa 95 I tried to follow my mother's advice never to let the sun go down on an argument, and to make sure that even if we couldn't be friends, we'd be friendly acquaintances.
2007 Daily Rec. (Scotl.) (Nexis) 7 Aug. 27 Don't let the sun go down on your anger. Stomping off to bed cross and resentful can feel quite good... But we know it's not a good thing for any of us.
(ii) to let the sun go down (also set) on (something or someone) (and variants): to fail to attend to (a task, duty, person, etc.) before the day is over; to put off until the next day. Also: to give up on or relinquish. Usually in negative contexts, in imperative phrases, as never (also don't) let the sun go down on something or someone.
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1833 Mil. & Naval Mag. U.S. July 280 All were full of wrath and the spirit of retaliation; and many thought it would be well not to let the sun go down on their high temperature, but to strike while the iron was hottest.
1870 Evangelical Repository & United Presbyterian Rev. Sept. 268 Never let the sun go down on a prayerless day.
1872 J. P. Smith Married Belle viii. 109 You didn't ought to let her in there, Kitty... It won't be easy to get her out again, I can tell you—don't you let the sun go down on her.
1885 Oldhallian 5 131 Never ought we to allow the sun to set on England's dominions!
1905 Successful Poultry Jrnl. June 42/2 Never let the sun go down on duties undone. Start tomorrow with a clean slate—don't be handicapped by left-overs from today.
1906 Med. Council (Philadelphia, Pa.) Oct. 326/2 A physician..leaving her with a torn perineum unrepaired is culpable. Never let the sun go down on a torn perineum.
1974 ‘E. John’ & B. Taupin (title of song) Don't let the sun go down on me.
1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 16 Dec. The..Conservative Government..blocking a private member's bill that would have allowed the sun to set on special voting privileges in Ontario enjoyed by citizens of the British Commonwealth.
2013 St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota) (Nexis) 23 Aug. Year after year we let the sun go down on dreams because we can't take time.
(iii) U.S. don't let the sun go down (also set) on you: (in the period of racial segregation, in certain parts of the United States) used as a threat or warning that black people in a particular place should leave before sunset or face intimidation, harassment, attack, or forcible expulsion. Later also as a threat or warning to any person of a particular type considered unwelcome in a place. Now historical.Sometimes as an expression of the official policy of a particular place towards black people; compare sundown town n. at sundown n. Compounds 3.
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1895 Democrat (McKinney, Texas) 25 Apr. ‘Don't let the sun go down on you here to-morrow negro. Yours truly, White Caps.’ This note..penned on the tent of some negroes.
1904 Rockingham (Harrisonburg, Va.) Reg. 9 Feb. 2/5 Everything in the place [sc. Wildcat, Oklahoma] is the property of colored people... If an occasional white person chances to come in.., the word is soon passed around to him: ‘White man. Don't let the sun go down on you here.’
1952 Collier's 11 Oct. 7/1 ‘Don't let the sun set on you in this town, stranger,’ Roy Rogers said.
1981 Associated Press (Nexis) 6 Mar. For years, signs posted near this north Georgia city warned blacks, ‘Don't let the sun set on you in Forsyth County.’
2003 E. L. Simpson Stranger from Home (2004) iii. 37 The smears of black paint bloody in the moonlight; coloured man don't let the sun go down on you in this town.
(b) on which the sun never sets and variants: used as a proverbial phrase with reference to an empire which spans the globe.Originally applied to the dominions of the Spanish Empire and now chiefly used in reference to the British Empire. [Probably ultimately after Italian il monarca à cui nè anco..il sol tramonta, lit. ‘the king on whom the sun never sets’ (with reference to Philip II of Spain) (1585 in a widely-distributed work), although this refers to the ruler rather than the territory; compare el monarca..a quien el sol nunca se pone, in the same sense, also with reference to Philip II (1636).]
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the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > eternity [phrase] > eternal
on which the sun never setsa1626
a1626 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre in Certaine Misc. Wks. (1629) 102 As one saith in a braue kinde of Expression; The Sunne neuer sets in the Spanish Dominions, but euer shines, vpon one part, or other of them.
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 15 Her dominions are very spacious, that the Sun never forsakes her quite.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. Ep. Ded. Our Neighbors the Hollanders..have conquered so much Land in the East and West-Indies, that it may be said of them, as of the Spaniards, That the Sunn never sets upon their Dominions.
1719 F. A. de Alvarado Spanish & Eng. Dialogues p. xvi The Sun never sets in the Spanish Dominions.
1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon VI. v. 140 Remember that the sun never sets on the immense Empire of Charles V.
1846 W. M. Thackeray in Punch 10 101/2 Snobs are..recognised throughout an Empire on which I am given to understand the Sun never sets.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 5 The great army of Browns, who are scattered over the whole empire on which the sun never sets.
1912 Church Times 24 May 12/2 There has been enough talk for the present about the Empire on which the sun never sets.
2016 Australian (Nexis) 21 June 27 Not since the days of the empire on which the sun never set has Britain had such an impact on the rest of the world, especially on global financial markets.
(c) literary and poetic. one's sun is (also has) set and variants: one's life, youth, period of prosperity, etc., has come to an end; also in extended use. Now rare.In quot. a1616 perhaps with punning allusion to son n.1
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. iii. 62 The Sunne of Rome is set. View more context for this quotation
1630 N. Richards Celestiall Publican sig. K3 Gone is the subiect of my mournefull verse His sun is set.
1748 T. Gray Ode in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems II. 267 On hasty wings thy youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone.
1812 M. Edgeworth Vivian vii, in Tales Fashionable Life IV. 164 All the fair hopes and virtuous promises of my youth, I must give up. Early as it is in my day, my sun has set.
1860 Once a Week 8 Dec. 664/1 Alas, for Prague! its beaux jours are over. We fear its sun is set.
a1972 C. Day Lewis Compl. Poems (1992) 626 I reach out through silence and through stone To her whose sun has set.
(d) the sun has set on (something) and variants: used to indicate that an era, period of activity, etc., has come to an end.
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1853 Austral. & N.Z. Gaz. 7 May 426/2 The sun has set on the year 1852.
1885 Boston Post 1 Sept. 3/6 The sun has set on his ambition in this direction.
1937 Manch. Guardian 29 Sept. 10/4 The sun will set on an Empire which lets its tailors starve perpetually.
1959 N.Y. Times 16 Mar. 24/2 The sun has set on the Edwardian Empire in Britain.
2015 A. Hogan & M. Young Rural & Regional Futures xviii. 330 The sun has set on this initial phase of populating inland Australia.
b. Phrases with shine.
(a) as (also that) the sun ever shone (also shines) on (also upon) and variants: (in commendatory statements) as lives or exists; as there has ever been. Now rare.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > [phrase] > as exists
as (also that) the sun ever shone (also shines) on (also upon)c1275
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15517 Nis nan feirure wifmon þa whit sunne scineð on.
1621 W. Loe Vox Clamantis 72 The most pious, and most prudent Sanedrim, that euer the Sun shined on.
1655 E. Terry Voy. E.-India 536 Many of these enjoying as delectable places as the Sun shines on. And for the people themselves, many of them, for flesh and bloud, as comely as the Earth bears.
a1692 T. Shadwell Volunteers (1693) i. ii. 9 He is as fine a Gentleman as the Sun shines upon.
1756 E. Bannac Apparition I. ii. 34 I became the Mother of as fine a Girl as ever the sun shone upon.
1837 S. Ferguson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 492/1 That ladder, which was to me the welcomest sight that ever the sun shone on, was lowered down by hurried and tremulous hands.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. i. 7 She was as pretty a creature as ever the sun shone on.
1862 M. M. Spiegel Let. 2 May in J. P. Soman & F. L. Byrne Jewish Colonel in Civil War 103 As pretty, rich and furtile [sic] a Valley as the Sun Ever shone on.
1922 C. W. Stewart Moonlight Schools x. 85 Hasn't she an Illiteracy Commission, 11,000 public school teachers and as patriotic people as ever the sun shone on?
1941 Life 14 Apr. 83/2 (advt.) , The snowiest, fluffiest, cleanest wash the sun ever shone on!
1958 S. Foote Civil War (1986) I. iv. 279 As motley an army as the sun ever shone on.
†(b) to make (also have) the sun shine through: to put a hole in; esp. to stab or shoot (a person), often fatally. Also to let the sun shine through (oneself): to be stabbed or shot. Cf. to let (also knock, put, etc.) daylight through (or into) at daylight n. Phrases 3. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)] > be injured > be wounded
to let the sun shine through (oneself)1679
Pepper Alley1820
to stop one1901
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into
holec1000
openOE
to make way1581
perforate?1660
to make (also have) the sun shine through1679
ventilate1917
1679 T. Shadwell True Widow iv. 55 Here's a doe about a slight Hurt; a Butcher at the Bear Garden makes nothing of forty such: I would have the Sun shine through my Servant now and then.
1694 J. Collier Misc. iv. 50 If he draws upon me in the Streets, I will not..let the Sun shine through me if I can help it.
1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 256. ⁋1 To make the sun shine through the criminal, or,..to whip him through the lungs.
1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 185 We made the Sun shine through some of the Walls.
1803 Glasgow Mag. of Wit 117 Make the sun shine through him.
1854 Belfast News Let. 20 Nov. She had wrecked the house frequently, and threatened that she would destroy his insignificant life, that she would make the sun shine through him, &c.
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(i) to think (also believe, etc.) the sun shines out of a person: to think that a person is perfect. Now somewhat rare.
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1919 F. Reid Pirates of Spring ix. 64 He doesn't think the sun shines out of him, the way..some of your friends do.
1970 C. Brown Down All Days xiv. 88 You're..thinking the sun shines out of her, but wait till you've a gang of snotty-nosed, shitty-arsed crying little demons around you.
2000 Sun (Nexis) 23 Mar. He was a real tearaway but his mum thought the sun shone out of him and he could do no wrong.
(ii) to think (also believe, etc.) the sun shines out of a person's arse (also backside, bum, etc.) (and variants): = to think (also believe, etc.) the sun shines out of a person at Phrases 2b(c)(i).
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1952 J. Harris Hallelujah Corner i. vii. 85 You'd think the sun shone out of my backside, the way you never let me out of your sight. Think I was your best pal, you would.
1966 G. M. Williams Camp ix. 101 You'd think the krauts got the sun shining out of their great square arses.
1969 D. Potter Nigel Barton Plays i. 28 Clever sod, ent ya? I expect they think the sun shines out of your bum down at Oxford.
1993 Daily Mail (Nexis) 26 May 12 He was actually quite spoilt as a child; the sun shone out of his belly button as far as his mother was concerned.
2011 T. Ronald Becoming Nancy (2012) xiii. 193 You lot just think the sun shines out of his arse, but you don't know anything.
(d) where the sun don't (also doesn't) shine (and variants): up a person's backside or anus. Frequently in various descriptive and imperative phrases expressing contemptuous rejection, as to stick (also put, shove, etc.) (something) where the sun don't shine.
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1931 R. Riskin Platinum Blonde (Libr. of Congress: Copyright Coll.) (transcribed from film) Reel 8 Big Chief very sorry. Show how sorry—will bend over and let white man kick Big Chief where sun never shine.
1973 B. Richison Put it where Sun don't Shine (sheet music) Put it where the sun don't shine.
1980 J. Krantz Princess Daisy xx. 329 I suggest that each of you goons take one of these and—stick it where the sun don't shine!
1985 Toronto Star (Nexis) 13 Nov. h1 He's back in form after almost a month on the sidelines because of minor surgery where the sun doesn't shine.
1991 S. Brown Texas! Sage (1992) 162 We told the pompous sonofabitch to shove his money where the sun don't shine.
2008 S. Armitage Gig (2009) 202 I ripped up my membership card and told the Britannia Music Club to stick it where the sun don't shine.
c. Other verbal phrases.
(a) Originally and chiefly Nautical. to shoot (also take) the sun: to ascertain the altitude of the sun using a sextant or other navigational instrument in order to determine one's latitude. Now chiefly historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > take a sight or observation
observe1559
to shoot (also take) the sun?1574
the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > observe [verb (intransitive)] > take altitude > shoot the sun
to shoot (also take) the sun?1574
?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea f. 28 I take the Sun vpon the Southest poynt .20. degrees aboue the horison.
1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 100 They tooke ye sunne & after iudged themselues to be 24. leagues past the riuer de Sestos.
1685 B. Ringrose Bucaniers Amer. iv. 195 I took the Sun, and hereby I found variation 26 D. 30. unto the North East.
1740 Descr. Barston's Astron. Quadrant i. 12 We have shewn how to find the Latitude of the Place, by taking the Sun or Star upon the Meridian.
1861 North-China Herald 16 Nov. 183/4 After an ineffectual attempt to shoot the sun at noon..we went to a large collection of houses near by.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad iii. 36 I..found a sextant... Now, I said, they ‘take the sun’ through this thing.
1923 Geogr. Jrnl. 61 106 I had taken the sun for the last time and said we would not see it again for ninety days.
1929 Bull. Amer. Assoc. University Professors 15 529 He can talk to you almost with eloquence about..how to shoot the sun with a sextant.
2002 M. J. Putney Bartered Bride (2004) xiv. 142 Eleven thirty in the morning, time to get his sextant and shoot the sun to check their position.
†(b) to get the sun of: (in combat) to manoeuvre or position oneself so that the sun is behind one's back and so shines into the eyes of (an enemy). Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [verb (transitive)] > other manoeuvres
geta1400
to get the sun of1598
to get the back of1653
attenda1674
unmask1779
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > have or get (someone) at a disadvantage
to have at avail1470
to catch, have, hold, take (one) at (a or the) vantagec1510
to gain of1548
to be to the forehand with1558
to have (take) on (in, at) the lurch1591
to get the sun of1598
to have (also get) a good hand against1600
to take (have, etc.) at a why-nota1612
to weather on or upon1707
to have the laugh on a person1767
to have a (or the) pull of (also over, on)1781
to get to windward of1783
to have the bulge on1841
to give points to1854
to get (have) the drop on1869
to hold over1872
to have an (or the) edge on1896
to get (also have) the goods on1903
to get (or have) the jump on1912
to have (got) by the balls1918
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 345 Be first aduisd, In conflict that you get the Sunne of them. View more context for this quotation
(c) to catch the sun.
(i) To receive, or be exposed to, sunlight or sunshine; spec. (of a place, building, room, etc.): to be in a sunny position; to receive a lot of sunshine.
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1797 T. S. D. Bucknall Orchardist 38 Before the ground is laid out, let the mind be active to secure the little risings or inflections, to catch the sun, and exclude the cold.
1855 G. E. Jewsbury Constance Herbert I. i. 3 An air of gloom and desolateness hangs over the place, seen from this view, even on the brightest summer day; it looks to the north, and, consequently, catches little sun.
1901 Reliable Poultry Jrnl. Apr. 196/2 During the shortest day in winter every part of the houses catches the sun at some time during the day.
1941 Sci. News Let. 22 Feb. 126/2 A rosette plant has its leaves all there, spread out and ready to catch the sun.
2015 Exeter Express & Echo (Nexis) 5 Feb. (Features section) 2 You can catch the sun all day and enjoy the evening sun sitting on the sheltered private patio.
(ii) To become tanned or sunburned. Usually in the perfect.
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1887 Punch 8 Oct. 168/2 I find myself remarking how very much Louise has caught the sun of late.
1931 Wichita Daily Times 17 May 14/1 Curtis was still in golf clothes. His face had caught the sun.
1969 P. O'Brian Master & Commander (1970) viii. 269 There was nothing to hide his burnt face which, moreover, had caught the sun.
2016 Surrey Mirror (Nexis) 8 Apr. 40 He had caught the sun and a pal said he looked like he had been on holiday.
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a. In various proverbial and allusive phrases.In quots. OE and 1979 with reference to Matthew 5:45; cf. quot. 1535.
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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxxv. 478 Þæt ge beon bearn þæs heofonlican fæder, se þe læt his sunnan scinan ofer gode & yfele.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 181 Amuche wint alið wið anlute rein. & þe sunne þer efter schineð þe schenre.
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 7364 (MED) We schul hem driue so sonne doþ mist.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xviii. l. 409 (MED) After sharpe shoures..moste shene is þe sonne.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 89 As sikir as the sunne schineth in somerys dai.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. v. 45 He maketh his sonne to aryse on the euel and on the good.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. C5 It's good be warie, whilst the sunne shines cleere.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iii. 56 Then did the Sun on dung-hill shine. View more context for this quotation
1838 3rd Ann. Rep. Liverpool Protestant Assoc. 47 The sun shines equally on the Christian and the atheist.
1905 Indiana Med. Jrnl. July 8/2 You must begin and complete your preparation while you still have youth and its attendant vigor and capacity for work—before you have passed the meridian of life and begin the descent—while the sun is still shining on your back.
1935 Nulaid News Jan. 10/2 The man in the dark cave has no right to complain that the sun is not shining, the sun shines only for those who step out into the sunlight.
1979 A.-M. Rizzuto Birth of Living God (1981) ix. 167 The sun does not discriminate whether it shines over good people or bad people.
b. clear as the sun at noonday and variants: see noonday n. 2; to make hay while the sun shines and variants: see hay n.1 3.
P4. Miscellaneous phrases.
a. sun of righteousness: (also with capital initials in the first and last elements) (a title or name for) Jesus Christ. Also †righteousness sun, †righteousness's sun. [After post-classical Latin sol iustitiae (Vulgate, Malachi 4:2), itself after biblical Hebrew šemeš ṣĕḏāqāh (Old Testament). The exact meaning of this passage is uncertain and disputed, but it was later interpreted as foreshadowing the coming of Christ to the world.]
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > according to other attributes
horn of salvation (health)c825
fatherOE
sun of righteousnessOE
priestc1175
leecha1200
vinec1315
apostlec1382
amenc1384
shepherdc1384
the Wisdom of the Father1402
high priest1526
pelican1526
mediatora1530
reconcilerc1531
branch1535
morning star1535
surety1535
vicar1651
arch-shepherd1656
hierarch1855
particularity1930
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxx. 433 Drihten se ðe is rihtwisnysse sunne hi geceas him to cennestran.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16779 He nass nohht..full. Off all þe rihhte trowwþe. Noff godess laress brihhte lem. Noff rihhtwisnessess sunne.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 109 (MED) Of þe is arisen þe sunne of rihtwisnesse, þat is ure drihten christ.
c1200 Serm. in Eng. & Germanic Stud. (1961) 7 65 (MED) Þe sunne of richisnesse vas iboren ine þursternesse.
1573 G. Gifford tr. W. Fulke Prælections xii. f. 75v Christ the sunne of righteousnesse..spreadeth the beames of his lighte vpon the whole Churche.
1613 W. Westerman Iacobs Well 64 Our sweet Sauiour, both the Sunne of Righteousnesse, and the fountaine of truth, ment some good to the place and persons, when hee went thorough Samaria.
a1699 J. Beaumont Minor Poems (1914) 399 The raies of Righteousnesses Sun.
1739 C. Wesley in J. Wesley & C. Wesley Hymns & Sacred Poems ii. 207 Hail the Heav'nly Prince of Peace! Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
1829 Morning Post 19 Mar. Oh, suffer not the alluring splendour of temporal riches to intervene between you and the sun of righteousness! Show that ye are really the disciples of the Messiah.
1906 J. G. Frazer Adonis, Attis, Osiris ii. vi. 198 To transfer the devotion of the heathen from the Sun to him who was called the Sun of Righteousness.
1982 Third Way Oct. 17/3 The ball which links the performers with their leader, the dean, is a symbol of the sun of righteousness, ie Christ.
2016 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Dec. 35 Jesus, the Sun of Righteousness, enables us to relate to God rightly, and to each other.
†b. Sun and Moon: (a name for) tug of war, esp. as a children's game. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > tug-of-war
Sun and Moon1572
tug of war1876
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Sonne and Moone, a playe that chyldren & bigge boyes vse to playe, wherein twoo companies drawe, th'one one waye and th' other an other, till one part giue the other the foyle.
1587 T. Thomas Dict. Latinae & Anglicanae A kinde of plaie, wherein two companies of boyes holding handes all in a rowe, do pull with harde holde on another till one side be ouercome: it is called Sunne and Moone.
1685 G. Meriton Nomenclatura Clericalis 164/1 The Play called Sun and Moon.
c. Heraldry. Sun in (his, its) Splendour (also Glory): (also with lower-case initials in the first and last elements) a representation of the sun, surrounded by rays (typically wavy and straight alternately) and often charged with the features of a human face; = sense 5b.
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1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. iii. 89 He beareth, Azure, a Sun in his glory, by the name of S. Cleere.
1660 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 4) iii. iii. 112 He beareth, Or, on a Fesse indented, Azure, three Stars, Argent, a Canton, of the second, charged with a Sun in glory by the name of Thompson.
1725 F. Nichols Brit. Compend. (ed. 2) II. 101 Quarterly 1st and 4th Saphyr, the Sun in his Splendour (as a Coat of Augmentation when created Earl).
1768 T. Worlidge Select Coll. Drawings I. 5/1 Seven compartments, in five of which a sun in splendour surrounds the face of Apollo in gilt.
1830 T. Robson Brit. Heraldry II. at Kinloch Crest, a young eagle, perching, and looking up to the sun in its splendour.
1860 L. Butters & J. MacLaren Fairbairn's Bk. Crests Families Great Brit. & Irel. (rev. ed.) I. 59/1 The sun in glory, charged on the centre with an eye.
1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 1 Oct. (Late ed.) (News & Features section) 19 A coat of arms featuring a dented edge, the sun in splendour, the Southern Cross and the motto Keep Going.
2015 Wilts. Gaz. & Herald (Nexis) 15 Oct. You'll find the small tomb to the left hand side. Look above it for the small stained glass window, the Sun in Splendour, the badge of the Plantagenet Kings.
d. Palmistry.
(a) finger of (the) sun: (also with capital initials in the first and last elements) the ring finger; cf. sun finger n. at Compounds 5a. [Compare post-classical Latin digitum solis (1522 or earlier).]
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1558 F. Withers tr. J. ab Indagine Briefe Introd. Art Chiromancy i. xiv. sig. H.iv A Line portured in this sort appearing in the ring finger, called properly the finger of the Sunne, signifieth long life and prosperitie.
1795 Magic & Conjuring Mag. iii. 19 A line from the wrist, extending between the finger of the Sun and Mercury, predicts good fortune.
1897 Planets & People Apr. 134/1 The ring finger, remember, is the finger of the sun.
1979 Astrol. Mag. Apr. 337/1 There are men and women who..refuse to accept responsibilities of life... In them the first finger..is shorter than the third finger or ring finger known as the Finger of Sun.
2003 J. Burdett Bangkok 8 (2004) i. 1 A hundred-baht note clipped stylishly between the pinkie and what our fortune tellers call the finger of the sun.
(b) line of (the) sun: (also with capital initials in the first and last elements) a line starting at the base of the ring finger and extending towards the base of the palm; cf. sun line n. (a) at Compounds 5a.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > palmistry > [noun] > mark on the hand > other lines
line of the livera1440
sister1558
headline1571
liver line1571
discriminal1652
heart line1652
line of (the) sun1653
natural line1653
sun line1653
dragon's tail1678
fate-line1889
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 53 The line of the Sun..takes its beginning out of the line of Fortune, and ascends, dividing the straight to the ring-finger.
?1730 Dr. Flamstead's & Mr. Patridge's New Fortune-bk. (ed. 2) 93 The Girdle of Venus, whole, or divided, cutting the Lines of ♄, ♃, or the Sun.
1879 R. Baughan Papers Palmistry vi. 32 The Line of the Sun..signifies, when straight and well defined..celebrity in literature or art.
1964 S. R. Vartak Palmistry & Vocational Guidance i. 19 The line of Sun is a line of brilliancy and success.
2000 S. Morningstar Divining Future 81/2 The fate line.., which deals with career and ambition, frequently takes the place of the line of the Sun or Apollo.
(c) mount of (the) sun: (also with capital initials in the first and last elements) the mount (mount n.1 5) at the base of the ring finger; cf. sun mount n. at Compounds 5a. [After Middle French Mont du Soleil (1558 in the passage translated in quot. 1566) and probably also post-classical Latin mons solis (1522 or earlier).]
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1566 W. Painter tr. O. Landi Delectable Demaundes iii. f. 97 In Chiromancie, what signifieth it when the mount of the Sunne [Fr. le Mont du Soleil] is eleuated, or bowing downewarde?
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 53 The line of the Sun..takes its beginning out of the line of Fortune, and ascends, dividing the mount of the Sun straight to the ring-finger.
1735 Weekly Misc. 8 Mar. The Thumb..is call'd the Mount of Venus, the Fore finger the Mount of Jupiter, the Middle-finger the Mount of the Sun [etc.].
1895 Arena (Boston) July 337 The sun line rises in plain of Mars (centre of palm) and runs up to the Mount of the Sun (below base of third finger).
1971 Astrol. Mag. Jan. 92/1 Persons with a good Mount of Sun..are very successful in their life.
1996 Evening Standard (Nexis) 20 Sept. 23 That perfect circle on the mount of the Sun means fame and riches.
e. slang.
(a) to have been in the sun: to be drunk. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > be drunk
bewetc1400
to be in beer1532
to have one's cap set1546
to have a pot in the pate1655
to be bit by a barn weasel1673
to have been in the sun1770
to have been in the sunshine1818
to have (also get) the sun in one's eyes1841
to have a brick in one's hat1847
stimulate1882
to beer up1892
to be (the) worse for liquor1893
to have a few1903
to have a heat on1912
1770 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 559/2 To express the Condition of an Honest Fellow, and no Flincher, under the Effects of good Fellowship, it is said that he.. [has] Been in the Sun.
(b) to have (also get) the sun in one's eyes: to be drunk.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > be drunk
bewetc1400
to be in beer1532
to have one's cap set1546
to have a pot in the pate1655
to be bit by a barn weasel1673
to have been in the sun1770
to have been in the sunshine1818
to have (also get) the sun in one's eyes1841
to have a brick in one's hat1847
stimulate1882
to beer up1892
to be (the) worse for liquor1893
to have a few1903
to have a heat on1912
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. ii. 81 Last night he had had ‘the sun very strong in his eyes’.
1986 J. L. Burke Lost Get-Back Boogie x. 182 ‘What happened to the old man?’ he said. ‘He got the sun in his eyes.’ ‘I don't believe it. The old man really drunk? He don't get drunk.’
1999 Guardian (Nexis) 6 May 20 ‘Foggy’, ‘with the sun in his eyes’ and ‘three sheets to the wind’ all mean drunk.
f. colloquial (originally Nautical) the sun is over the yardarm (also foreyard) and variants: it is time for the first alcoholic drink of the day. Now somewhat archaic.The sun was reckoned to rise above the foreyard of a ship by around 11 a.m. or noon, when the first ration of rum or the like was served. In later (non-nautical) usage the phrase is sometimes loosely applied to a later time of day; cf. sundowner n. 5a.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking times
bever1499
the sun is over the yardarm (also foreyard)1839
opening time1841
chucking-out time1909
permitted hours1919
stop-tap1938
happy hour1951
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > noon [phrase] > it is noon
the sun is over the yardarm (also foreyard)1839
1839 Burton's Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 288 The chapling said he guessed the sun was over the fore-yard, and baled us out another horn o' licker all round.
1899 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea I. xxiv. 454 The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should... Also he has no decent notions about the sun being over the yard-arm or below the horizon.
1903 H. Holmes Life & Adventures 11 The sun's over the fore yard; no doubt they have spliced the main brace.
1964 Amer. Notes & Queries 3 23/2 Frequent reference is made to the undesirability of drinking before ‘the sun has crossed the yardarm’.
1979 A. Morice Murder in Outline iii. 26 I had promised to take a jugful of dry martini with him and Vera..as soon as the sun went over the yardarm.
2015 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Oct. (Travel section) 4 Once the sun's over the yardarm, have a gin and tonic served in a glass as big as a goldfish bowl.
g. crown of the sun: see crown n. Phrases 1 empire of the sun: see empire n. and adj. Phrases 2; raisins of the sun, raisins in the sun: see raisin n. Phrases 2; touch of the sun: see touch n. Phrases 5.

Compounds

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(a) attributive, with the sense ‘of, belonging or relating to, or made or caused by, the sun, sunlight, or sunshine’.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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1807 C. A. Elton in Athenæum Mar. 279 I languish in the sun-blaze.
1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty v, in Prometheus Unbound 211 Each head Within its cloudy wings with sunfire garlanded.
1850 E. B. Browning Early Rose xii Singing gladly all the moontide, Never waiting for the suntide.
1857 G. W. Thornbury Songs of Cavaliers & Roundheads 255 To quench the sun-flame in the west.
1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 108 And O the sundazzle on bark and bight!
1924 G. B. Shaw St. Joan ii. 27 Joan (rising, with a sunflush of reckless happiness irradiating her face).
1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos ii. 11 Snipe come for their bath, bend out their wing-joints, Spread wet wings to the sun-film.
1958 C. Tomlinson Seeing is Believing (1960) 1 A quick gold, dyeing the uncovering beach With sunglaze.
2011 Daily Examiner (Grafton, New S. Wales) (Nexis) 20 Apr. 8 Chat about the unfamiliar sun glimpses yesterday even extended to Facebook.
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sun fleck n.
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1839 N. P. Willis in Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 17 Oct. The sun-flecks lay bright as ‘patines of gold’ on the close shaven grass beneath the trees.
1926 Ecology 7 273 These brilliant sun flecks, which contrast strikingly with the dense forest shade, are one of the characteristics of forests of this region.
2015 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 Mar. 10 It's mostly pretty dark where Swiss cheese plants grow, so they depend a lot on sunflecks, occasional shafts of sunlight that penetrate the dense tree canopy.
sun glare n.
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1845 Fayetteville (N. Carolina) Observer 23 Apr. 1/5 The little mountains of the South and West exclude the sun glare completely.
1904 E. Wharton Ital. Villas v. 178 A few olives and bay-trees fight the sun-glare and sea-wind of a harsh winter and a burning summer.
2013 Northumberland News (Nexis) 21 Mar. 1 If drivers don't feel safe while dealing with sun glare, they should pull over and wait for driving conditions to improve.
sun glint n.
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1835 R. Nicoll Poems & Lyrics 101 The bonnie lasses are awa' Wha came like sun-glints hither.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 200 The deep shaft, with the sun-glints and the water-drops.
2012 S. W. Berg 38 Nooses p. ix Mordecai leveled his gun and aimed for a sun glint of metal.., a half-moon pendant dangling against the chest of his brother's would-be captor.
sun haze n.
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1837 Times 2 Sept. 3/5 Its desert effect, when we saw it in the middle of the day, was perhaps heightened by a sun haze that lay over the distance.
1968 S. Yurick Bag iv. 119 He drove west, trying to calm himself by looking at the morning sunhaze and shadowhaze and the big buildings.
2005 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Dec. (Travel section) 10 In front, haloed by sun haze, the fertile Bekaa is patched with smallholders' fields in green, straw and gold as if painted by Klimt.
sun warmth n.
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1846 L. M. Child in Columbian Mag. Sept. 117/1 In Spring, when the plant moved above the surface of the earth, it transmitted genial sun-warmth.
1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 245 The slanting sun-warmth of the early morning.
1996 J. Rodgers Crazy for trying 266 He strode away and lay down on his back in the sun warmth.
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(a) attributive, with the sense ‘caused by or attributed to exposure to the sun; induced by the heat or light of the sun’.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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eOE Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) iii. xxix. 324 Wiþ sunbryne, merwe ifigtwigu wyl on butran, smire mid.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Frost at Midnight in Fears in Solitude 22 All the thatch Smokes in the sun-thaw.
1897 ‘H. S. Merriman’ In Kedar's Tents xxvii. 299 Likely to fall from sheer fatigue and sun-weariness.
1910 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 829 The smooth sun-bubbles in the worn green paint Upon the doors.
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sun blister n.
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1853 Michigan Farmer Sept. 275 The greatest quantity of woody matter, which becomes vitiated by too much heat upon the side of the tree, causing the bark to cleave off—it being, in fact, a real sun blister.
1883 Good Words Aug. 543/2 Paint..of doors and window-frames..‘picked out’ by irregular touches of sun-blister.
1915 White Breeder's Compan. Sept. 6/3 One of my neighbors said the sores were sun blisters and that the white hogs would not do well where the sun was so hot.
2008 J. A. Kogler Otherworldlies i. 6 Lee pointed at the sun blisters that had erupted on Fern's face.
sun erythema n. [compare scientific Latin erythema solare (1832 or earlier)] now rare
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1890 Arch. Surg. 1 Index p. xxviii/1 Case of sun erythema.
1913 Med. Rev. 62 318/2 Came to hospital suffering from sun erythema of hands and face.
2009 R. Goralczyk & K. Wertz in Carotenoids V. xvi. 347 In eight of the ten studies reviewed, the MED [= minimal erythema dose of UVB] was increased or sun erythema was less pronounced.
sun headache n.
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1870 Hahnemannian Monthly Aug. 36 Its [sc. glonoine] usefulness in genuine coup de soleil is undoubted, but the writer has afforded prompt relief during the present season in some twenty or more cases of distressful sun-headache.
1906 T. G. Longstaff Mountain Sickness 35 A. B., who had merely wrapped a jersey round his head, collapsed with a severe sun headache at 2 P.M.
2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health i. 77 Belladonna (Bell.) Used for fevers, sun headaches and localized inflammations.
sun rash n.
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1828 D. Craigie Elements Gen. & Pathol. Anat. 606 Punctuate papular inflammation... Sun-rash, prickly heat, Lichen.
1905 Pacific Monthly July 42 Lacey turned white under his sun-rash.
2007 Science 2 Mar. 1215/3 The common sun rash called polymorphous light eruption.
sun traumatism n. now rare
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1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xii. 201 These cases might be classified under the term Sun-traumatism.
1930 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 Nov. 734/1 Dr. Frank Marsh, pathologist to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, read a paper on the etiology of heat stroke and sun traumatism.
1972 N. J. Atkinson Teaching Rhodesians iv. 79 Sometimes they were held back by the effects of bilharzia, malaria, sun traumatism, and other diseases which were endemic in tropical latitudes.
c. attributive in sense 1b.
(a) With the sense ‘of or relating to the sun as an object of worship; dedicated or sacred to the sun; associated with sun worship’.
sun altar n.
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1828 W. A. Miles in W. L. Bowles Hermes Britannicus vi. 93 (note) Hutchins derives it [sc. Agglestone] from the Saxon word Hælig, holy, the holy stone... It was the sun altar.
1968 A. Badawy Hist. Egyptian Archit.: Empire (New Kingdom) ii. 27 The section to the right of the courtyard is grouped around a small court featuring a sun altar and bordered by two columned porticoes.
2005 National Geographic Visual Hist. World 335/4 (caption) Human sacrifices on the sun altar in Tenochtitlán.
sun cult n.
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1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States III. iii. 114 The rites of a perpetual fire are found closely connected with a sun-cult.
1942 Amer. Anthropologist 44 405 Silver..trays were used in the religious ceremonies connected with the Sun cult of the Ob-Ugrians.
2006 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 4 Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (‘the day of the birth of the invincible sun’)..was..part of a powerful sun cult that preceded Christianity as the major Roman religion.
sun idol n.
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1646 H. Hammond Of Idolatry 6 The Sun-idols..they say, by the operation of the fire, became vocall.
1776 A. Serle Horæ Solitariæ I. 25 These Sun-Idols, which in Scripture are called Chammanim or Hammanim, were Images exposed..upon the Tops of Houses.
1892 E. J. Payne Hist. New World I. ii. 568 This Sun-idol..was the image to which offerings were made in the public ritual.
1965 East & West 15 288 The great sanctuary of Penjab with its famous sun idol..fell into their hands.
2011 Times of India (Nexis) 24 Jan. The seers demanded regular worship of the Sun idol inside the 13th century shrine.
sun image n.
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1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. xiv. 5 He tooke away out of all the cities of Iudah, the high places and the images [margin] Heb. Sun-images . View more context for this quotation
1882 G. Rawlinson Relig. Anc. World (1883) v. 145 The sun-worship of the Phœnicians seems to have been accompanied by a use of ‘sun-images’.
2007 S. Sahai Bayon of Angkor Thom ix. 70/2 They usually restrict the installation and worship of the sun image to the Maga Brahmana.
sun priest n.
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1670 J. Ogilby America iii. iv. 424 Sometimes a Father would Offer his Son to Viracocha, on the Sun-Priest's suggestion, That by his Son's death he would recover from his Sickness.
1898 Amer. Anthropologist 11 67 The Sun priests at Walpi have celebrations at both summer and winter solstices.
1983 E. T. Hall Dance of Life ii. 36 It is the Sun Priest's duty to determine precisely when the sun..is turning around and about to move north again.
2007 P. M. Rice Maya Cal. Origins iii. 49 The calendar was kept by a sun priest who took daily observations of the rising and setting of the sun.
sun priestess n.
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1875 N. McLeod Epitome Anc. Hist. Japan 126 A Goddess furled her sleeves (as the sun priestess may be seen doing in the temples).
1929 H. G. Duncan Race & Population Probl. xvii. 309 There were some religious celibates in Egypt, Chaldea, Rome, India, and Tibet, such as the Persian Sun Priestesses, and the Vestal Virgins of Rome.
2008 N. Campion Dawn of Astrol. xvi. 259 It was Aurelian.., the son of a sun-priestess, who established Deus Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun, as Rome's supreme deity.
sun sacrifice n.
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1850 R. W. Mackay Progress of Intellect I. iii. 214 The cross being an ancient emblem of the sun, and crucifixion a form of sun-sacrifice.
1922 J. C. Wright Great Myth v. 62 The king thinks it is intended to upset his realm and annul all our sacred institutions, including the festivals and sun sacrifice.
2005 W. N. Beath & P. Wheeldon James Dean in Death 17 For the Aztecs, the sun had to be nourished with human hearts and blood... The sun sacrifice was considered a glorious death.
sun shrine n.
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1893 F. Parry Sacred Maya Stone Mexico iii. 39 Stephens..mentions the sun shrine and that of the cross as each having three doors.
1984 R. A. Williamson Living Sky (1987) viii. 177 As he walked quietly along the path leading to the sun shrine.., he thought about the summer solstice festival that had ended eight days earlier.
2005 C. L. N. Ruggles Anc. Astron. 157 The site [sc. Fajada Butte] may well have been a sacred place used as a sun shrine.
sun temple n.
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1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. vii. xiii. 1471 (margin) Benefite and prerogatiue of Nunneries and Sun-temples.
1828 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 15 169 Gough and Pownal pronounce it a druidical sun temple.
1965 Ebony Apr. 146/2 (caption) Ethiopia's most venerated house of worship..was built on site of sun temple built at Queen of Sheba's behest between 1005 and 955 B.C.
2008 Outlook Traveller Apr. 113/2 Nearby is the village of Aihole, which has a number of temples, including a Sun Temple that looks a lot like our Parliament.
(b) Designating a person, creature, etc., embodying, representing, or symbolizing the sun (or one of its aspects or attributes), descended from the sun, or otherwise identified or associated with it.
sun child n.
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1839 T. Mitchell in Aristophanes Frogs Introd. 16 That Colchis, from which came the sun-children.
1924 Classical Rev. 38 200/2 The child will be a sun-child, spirit-conceived, of divine parentage, born to rule the universe.
2013 Church Times 4 Oct. 17/5 I can relate to calling God ‘the Source of All’,..but felt a momentary pang of unease at the mention of the sun-child, Mabon.
sun elf n.
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1867 C. H. Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 20 The Sulevæ appear, from their name, to have been sun-elves.
1921 Z. Meyer Little Green Door 140 The violets which so short a time ago had been white were now yellow, and only the sun elves could have made them so.
a1967 E. Kazi Flower Fairy Stories (1992) iii. 34 I am the Sun-Elf, and my home is in the sun.
2005 E. S. de Bie Ghostwalker v. 69 A cascade of glowing amber hair fell around Lyetha's shoulders and her eyes blazed with sapphire light. Her face, with its distinct gold tinge, hinted clearly at her sun elf heritage.
sun hero n.
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1880 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 1 160 The sun-hero Herakles.
1911 F. H. Woods in Encycl. Relig. & Ethics IV. 355/1 Cúchulainn as a sun-hero..was directly connected with Lug, the sun-god.
2015 R. Alexander Myths, Symbols & Legends Solar Syst. Bodies i. 1 King Arthur of Camelot..is the most popular and romantic of the mythical Sun heroes.
sun spirit n.
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1847 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church II. 216 The soul on which they had seized, striving after freedom, and attracted by its kindred Sun-spirit [Ger. Sonnengeist], gradually liberates itself and evaporates.
2008 Sunday Territorian (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 June 45 If they had offended the Sun Spirit, as many thought it was, then it may decide to just keep going north or south and never return.
d. Designating something which provides protection from the sun or which is used to keep sunlight out of a room, building, etc.
sun awning n.
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1851 Belfast News-Let. 2 June Her fall was broken by the frame of a sun awning with which she first came into contact.
1939 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Feb. 255/2 Folding doors and sun awnings on the south side of the class-rooms provide for teaching to be carried on under open-air conditions whenever practicable.
2008 Islands Sept. 12/2 He had a cooler filled with ice-cold beer and had arranged a sun awning over several big cushions.
sun canopy n.
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1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 69 A certaine Sun Canopie [L. Solinum], or small tent (which was to bee caried ouer the Emperours head).
1875 Standard 9 Nov. 5 Bullock gharries, with their jingling bells and gay flowing curtains suspended from a sun-canopy overhead, were trotted..from all parts of the native town.
1923 Heal & Son Catal.: Kitchen Furnit. & Garden Furnit. 10 Hammock..with sun canopy and fittings complete.
2011 E. Black Confessions of Coffee Group Dropout i. 8 I pushed my baby around in the beating sun for months before another mother showed me how the sun canopy on his stroller worked.
sun cover n.
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1857 Liverpool Mercury 7 Aug. 1/4 (advt.) Waterproof Sun Covers.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 14 July 4/2 White linen sun-covers embroidered in white.
2016 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 10 July (Traveller section) 5 The Fly Babee sun cover clips onto in-flight bassinets and prams of all shapes and sizes to block out 97 per cent of light.
sun curtain n.
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1834 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 3 Mar. 1/3 (advt.) A Glass Coach, painted yellow, picked out black, drab cloth, and yellow morocco leather lining,..silk sun curtains, barouch box, lamps, &c. complete.
1915 Good Housek. Mag. Apr. 433/2 Shades may be dispensed with by providing sun-curtains.
2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 29 Mar. (City ed.) 65 Some people are content with sun curtains made of sheer cotton.
sun parasol n.
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1859 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 23 Sept. (advt.) A good, full size sun parasol.
1910 H. D. Pittman Go Forth & Find iii. iv. 115 Canes of all sorts, rain umbrellas and sun parasols.
2013 Bristol Post (Nexis) 8 Aug. (Features section) 10 We didn't bring a sun parasol that could double as an umbrella.
sun shield n.
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1842 Sat. Mag. 10 Sept. 100/1 Many circumstances concur in showing that the use of sun-shields..has not only prevailed to a great extent in the East, but that the honour of holding this shield over the monarch has generally belonged to a great officer of state.
1974 W. Garner Big enough Wreath ix. 118 One of the two guards stepped out of the gate-house, sun-shields hiding his eyes.
2015 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 17 Oct. 55 An all-terrain wheelable beach caddie with sun shield.
sun shutter n.
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1847 ‘Greensleeves’ in Bentley's Misc. Jan. 494 She drew up to the bright green sun-shutter.
1909 W. Le Queux House of Whispers xxii. 171 That..white house with the green sun-shutters.
2006 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 18 June All doors and windows have sun shutters and fly screens.
sun umbrella n.
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1798 Caledonian Mercury 12 May 1/2 (advt.) Cloak Gauzes, Sun Umbrellas, &c. &c.
1867 A. D. Whitney Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life viii. 134 Miss Craydocke appeared..under her great brown sun-umbrella.
1904 Daily Chron. 21 June 8/3 Votaries of the abolition of head-gear..trusting to a sun-umbrella for shelter.
2004 J. Wilcockson 23 Days in July (2005) xiii. 190 Some touring cyclists are snacking under sun umbrellas at tables set up in the little square beside the fountain.
e. Designating a room, outdoor area, or structure such as a balcony or porch which is positioned or designed to receive a lot of sunshine. [Compare classical Latin sōlārium terrace, balcony, or rooftop exposed to the sun, in post-classical Latin also with reference to a room (see solarium n.).]
sun balcony n.
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1865 Times 7 Mar. 5/1 Its vacant verandahs and deserted sun balconies.
1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird vii. 90 A sun balcony..ran round the..side of the villa.
2016 Times (Nexis) 2 June 26 This large luxury yacht..has six bedrooms (sleeping 12 in total), six bathrooms, sun balconies, a Jacuzzi and a lounge that can hold a cocktail party for 15.
sun loggia n.
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1921 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. 37/1 (caption) Sun Loggia.
2008 Observer (Nexis) 4 May Wandering around this beautifully realised building, with its vast, sea-facing sun loggia and new floor of posh suites on what was previously the flat roof.
sun patio n.
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1940 San Antonio (Texas) Express 15 Oct. 7 a/1 (advt.) Beautiful furnished 4-room apartment with sun patio.
1987 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 30 Aug. (City ed.) 1 f If you have enough money, you might also put a pool in the back and a sun patio.
2017 Cornishman (Nexis) 13 Apr. (Property section) 36 There is a parking space to the side plus a sun patio.
sun parlour n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > room admitting maximum sunlight
sun parlour1838
sun lounge1901
solarium1911
1838 Episcopal Recorder 21 Apr. i/5 We supposed we had attained the highest place in the establishment, the door being labelled ‘sun parlour’, but were amused after at finding another party ushered into a room above us, called the ‘sky parlour’.
1940 W. H. Auden Another Time 92 The poor old fat banker in the sun-parlour car.
2006 Sunday Times (Nexis) 8 Jan. My parents attached a sun parlour to the side, which was lovely and warm.
sun porch n.
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1887 Los Angeles Times 7 Dec. 8/3 Every room an outside room, six hundred feet of porches, also sun porches, grand garden on land side, terraces and lawn on ocean side.
1918 M. B. Cooke Threshold 53 Joan went in search of Mr. Farwell and found him reading in the sun porch.
2007 Independent 11 Apr. (Property section) 14/5 The master bedroom suite has a sun porch.
sunroom n.
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1812 European Mag. & London Rev. Jan. 13 This tavern, situated in the centre of the market, had a solar, or sun-room, in front.
1907 E. Wharton Fruit of Tree iii. xxiv. 349 A glazed ‘sun-room’, mosaic pavements, a marble fountain.
2011 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Nov. 58/1 A neat white three-bedroom starter with an attached garage underneath the sunroom.
sun terrace n.
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1889 Catal. Pompeia: Reprod. House of Pansa 15 The Solarium (sun terrace). Generally the houses consisted of..one story, but in some were extra sleeping-rooms over a part of the structure... The Solarium was thus left on the roof of the front part of the building.
1907 Automobile 17 Oct. 529/2 There is a comfortable and well managed hotel with several sun-terraces.
2002 Derbyshire Life & Countryside Nov. 3/2 The landscaped grounds incorporate..well-stocked borders, gravel walkways and a raised sun terrace.
sun veranda n.
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1893 New North (Rhinelander, Wisconsin) 18 May One by one the invalids..made their way across the great sun veranda.
1904 Copper Handbk. 4 xv. 667 The building has emergency wards, operating rooms, dispensary, sun veranda, elevators and indirect steam heating.
2016 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 May (Property section) 14 A carport and sun veranda in the garden.
f. Designating clothing for hot sunny weather or activities such as sunbathing or going to the beach.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
sun blouse n.
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1930 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 10 May 26/5 I must not forget Schiaparelli's cunning idea of making sun blouses. The back is cut so that it can be bared by untwisting a scarf, the source of which makes part of the blouse's back.
2012 R. Leganski Silence of Bonaventure Arrow i. 13 She was wearing a green-and-blue-striped sun blouse and a light green skirt, and she'd let her hair fall loose.
sun pants n.
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1928 Monroe (Louisiana) News-Star 2 June 5/1 Babies in sun pants to brown their little backs and tummies.
2016 S. Vaught Things too Huge to fix by saying Sorry 117 She was happy today, judging by her pink sun pants and flowered shirt.
sun shirt n.
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1929 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 7 Apr. 3/3 Sun-Shirts that match the Sun-Suits.
2013 J. Gaffigan Dad is Fat 150 Wearing a long-sleeve sun shirt in a swimming pool makes it impossible to not look like a moron.
sun shorts n.
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1939 Times 27 Jan. 17/1 A full-skirted peasant dress..slips over a magenta alpaca-linen brassiere-top and frilly sun shorts.
2014 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 26 Oct. (Sunday Life section) 8 I'm down at the beach every chance I get, paddling in the shallows in my big, black mum-togs, and my sun shirt, sun hat and sun shorts.
sun trunks n. now rare
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1929 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 28 May c9/5 (advt.) Jantzen sun trunks, $2.25. Tots 2 to 7 will acquire sun-tanned robustness in these.
1954 Times Pict. (Dublin) 14 Aug. 7/5 The sun trunks with elastic waist cost 5/9 for 1½-6 years.
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a. Objective.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. [With sun-following in quot. 1562 compare Old English sunfolgend (noun), name of a heliotropic plant (see sun-seeker n.).]
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1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 154v This kinde is called in diuerse partes of England Wartwurt: it maye also be called son spourge, or son folowynge spourge.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. i. sig. B3 Not able to beare her sun-stayning excellencie.
1612 J. Davies Muses Sacrifice sig. C1v Thy Sunne-ecclipsing glorious face.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iv. 150 Since she..threw her Sun-expelling Masque away, The ayre hath staru'd the roses in her cheekes. View more context for this quotation
1658 E. Phillips Generosi Ludentes 32 in Myst. Love & Eloquence Rainbow. Chequer'd,..eye-pleasing, sun-confronting.
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) vi. ccii. 81 Sharp was their sight, and further could descry Than any Eagle's Sun-affronting eye.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) II. 414 The scarlet poppy, and sun-resembling marigold.
1810 E. Moor Hindu Pantheon 142 A low sun-excluding viranda.
1892 C. Rossetti Face of Deep 210 A handful of sun-courting heliotrope.
1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken xiii. 150 The sun-disdaining eagle.
1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 91 Stripped are the great sun-clouding planes.
1996 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 12 Oct. (Business section) 9 Giving workers their own protective equipment such as clothes made from sun-excluding fibres with long sleeves and long trousers.
b.
(a) With present participles.
sun-loving adj.
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1605 J. Sylvester in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 95 (margin) An addition by the Translator of the rare Sun louing Lotos.
1820 London Lit. Gaz. 26 Aug. 551/2 To commune with nought by the sun-loving swallow and cloud Soaring free.
1951 Life 12 Feb. 61/1 Los Angeles, which was once a quiet mecca for retired elderly people and sun-loving visitors.
2005 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 20 Nov. 35/1 Sun-loving teenagers who ignore the threat of skin cancer.
sun-reflecting adj.
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1859 F. Rolleston Notes on Apocalypse xxi. 108 The night cheered by the sun-reflecting moon.
1884 Art Amateur Aug. 59/1 The lowing herds..whose shadow-holding, sun-reflecting flanks, ridged backs and colorful sides were the delight of her eye.
2015 Sc. Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 4 Jan. 57 Fine shingle and sand beaches, fringing a sea whose warm, sun-reflecting waters are of startling clarity.
sun-repelling adj.
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1815 P. M. Freneau Coll. Poems Amer. Affairs I. 83 The trees..Form'd o'er his head a sun-repelling power.
1885 Weather Warnings for Watchers 58 Three-fourths of the heavens are obscured by sun-repelling clouds.
2017 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Feb. f4 Derek is dressed in jeans and a flannel shirt, a stark contrast to our sweat-wicking, sun-repelling, ultralight layers.
sun-resisting adj.
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a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) vii. 78 Phantasmus..Will make ye gardens full of dainty flowers, Of strawbery banks, and sun-resisting bowers.
1813 J. Bidlake Year 34 Ye polar mountains of eternal ice! That proudly lift your sun-resisting heads.
1900 Canad. Horticulturist Aug. 345/1 There are many other plants that are sun resisting in their nature.
2003 Sunday Times (Nexis) 21 Dec. (Features section) 47 A shared taste in sun-resisting headwear.
sun-screening adj.
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1841 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical (ed. 2) I. xxi. 138 A third [path]..proceeds along the kloof, by the side of the stream, and under sun-screening woods, until it forks into two roads.
1958 Which? 1 iv. 17/2 CR had a number of the preparations tested for their sunscreening quality.
2015 Korea Herald (Nexis) 6 Aug. Never having seen sun-screening parasols before, she naturally assumed that they were umbrellas for the rainy weather.
(b) With agent nouns.
sun-lover n.
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1857 Bristol Mercury 6 June 6/1 No sun-lover taints every charm till it [sc. a shamrock] fades, But unchanging it lives, like our own mountain maids.
1957 Life 11 Feb. 58/2 A sun-lover who wanted to bask all year round.
2002 Times 11 Feb. ii. (Medical Guide) 22/3 Pipe-smokers and sun-lovers are at particular risk of lip cancer.
C3. Parasynthetic.
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?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 220 Tell our Sunnfac't sonne his fortune.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV cccxxxv, in Poems (1878) IV. 84 The faire Sun-feather'd Birds.
1803 J. Leyden Scenes of Infancy i. 291 When evening brings the merry folding hours, And sun-eyed daisies close their winking flowers.
1938 S. Spender Trial of Judge i. 18 Let the nordic Sunhaired head be matched against cloud drifts.
1939 D. Thomas Map of Love 6 Comes love's anatomist with sun-gloved hand Who picks the live heart on a diamond.
2010 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 20 Nov. (A2 section) 20 Sanguine and sun-haired, he calls himself ‘a dreamer in realities’.
C4. Adverbial.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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(a) With the sense ‘in, to, at, against, from, of, etc., the sun, sunlight, or sunshine’.
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1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 86v A bright sunne-arraied Angell.
1611 W. Barksted Hiren sig. C The sunne-gaz'd Eagle.
1626 J. Gresham tr. Ovid Picture of Incest 26 Her dainty fingers..Into sun-shading litle boughes doe turne.
1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies ii. xcviii. 110 The Sun-delighting Flye.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 33 The sun-descended race.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters: Choric Song iii, in Poems (new ed.) 112 Sunsteeped at noon, and in the moon Nightly dewfed.
1916 E. Blunden Harbingers 11 Odysseus came..And called without my strong sun-glittering gates.
1925 A. Huxley Sel. Poems 16 The sun-drunk petals.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Sun iv. 14 Like a blot of ink on the pale, sun-glowing slope.
1937 San Antonio (Texas) Light 11 June 12 a/2 The hat may be the white duck sun-shielding cap or a lightweight felt.
2004 Archit. Rev. June 50/1 The white steel roof structure and sun-shading panels.
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(i) With past participles.
sun-deprived adj.
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1937 Salamanca (N.Y.) Republican-Press 3 Nov. 4/2 It is reasonable enough to put up..vitamins in concentrated form so that sun-deprived mortals may..be sure of their full quota.
2011 Toronto Star (Nexis) 11 Nov. b4 All-inclusive destinations in warm places are popular with sun-deprived Canadians.
sun-exposed adj.
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1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 370 Hail, ye palaces of kings, abodes beloved, Venerable seats, and sun-exposed deities.
1963 Pop. Sci. July 99/2 Conserve cool night air in the house during the day by closing sun-exposed windows and drawing the shades.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 18 Jan. a15/1 The cancer..tends to occur most often on the sun-exposed areas of the body like the face, the head and the neck.
sun-protected adj.
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1886 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 6 Dec. ii. 9/3 The port of Racine..has disclosed the registry of 70 to 76 degrees in any sun-protected portion of the city.
1989 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 9 Mar. (Late ed.) (Style section) 1 A good apartment should have privacy, a deep, sun-protected balcony and a good aspect and view.
2014 Times of India (Nexis) 8 June (Health section) Precautions for parents hiking with kids include keeping the child hydrated, warm, moisturised and sun-protected.
sun-shielded adj.
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1877 R. D. Williams Poems 140 The arrows of God from His citadel towers, Thy sun-shielded legions are flashing in showers.
1989 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Apr. t24 The southwestern bed is a poor choice for my herbs, which thrive in a cooler, sun-shielded location.
2009 Westside News (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Apr. 27 Outside, there are two 20,000 litre water tanks..and a private sun-shielded entertaining deck.
sun-sheltered adj.
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1865 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Apr. 384/1 Even throughout the summer, the snow does not entirely disappear, through sometimes it remains visible only in crevices and sun-sheltered spots.
1908 Pacific Monthly Jan. 88/1 The cavernous and sun-sheltered channel of the sunken river.
2009 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 Jan. m12 Dart across Flinders Lane to Centre Place, another bustling but sun-sheltered strip, half of which is covered.
sun-starved adj.
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1862 Exchange Sept. 391 Those [vines] of the north and west of France, on the contrary, are comparatively sun-starved.
1960 Honey Aug. 29 (advt.) No matter if they're sun-starved you can give even the whitest legs the bronzed, beautiful look that all whistle-worthy legs possess.
2007 F. Gayesky et al. MTV Spain 19/1 Majorca is overrun when the weather sizzles, especially by sun-starved British and German travelers.
(ii) With other adjectives.
sun-born adj.
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1656 A. Cowley Pindarique Odes 56 in Poems They mount up higher, Where never Sun-born Frog durst to aspire.
1713 T. Tickell Poem to His Excellency Lord Privy-Seal 19 How Tides, when heav'd by pressing Moons, o'erflow, And Sun-born Iris paints her show'ry Bow.
1819 J. H. Newman Spring in Poems (1906) 52 Spring! fairest season of the sunborn four.
1954 Monumenta Nipponica 10 118 The similarity of this story of a jewel-born ancestor with the stories of sun-born or egg-born ancestors in Korea is very striking.
2003 A. Valentine Smith Circle of Three x. 73 Sandy looked up at the sun-born silhouette of the man in the lifeguard tower.
sun-sensitive adj.
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1894 Nature Notes June 111 During the last few years the real flax with its pale blue sun-sensitive flower has rapidly spread.
1972 L. Israel Miss Tallulah Bankhead iii. 26 Tallulah ate ravenously and grew fatter, stronger, and more imposing than frail Eugenia, whose sun-sensitive eyes required that she sit low, low at the dining-room table.
2015 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 26 Feb. (Second ed.) (Features section) 18 It [sc. rosacea] is seen in all countries but most frequently in people with fair, sun-sensitive skin.
sun-reflective adj.
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1890 Trans. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 9 53 It is affected by..solar activity,..producing..a condensation of vapors previously invisible into compact particles of sun-reflective capacity.
1975 Daily Herald-News (Port Charlotte, Florida) 17 July 3/4 Sun reflective glass that reduces visibility by 35 per cent or more, is now against safe driving requirements.
2000 Sunday Times (Nexis) 10 Sept. (Features section) The singlet is available only in a sun-reflective white.
sun-resistant adj.
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1907 Rep. Operations Dept. Agric., Punjab iii. 11 I refer to the possibility of relieving the sudden pressure of the spring harvest by introducing high-class sun-resistant wheats.
1956 Daily Independent Jrnl. (San Rafael, Calif.) 24 Sept. 5/4 (advt.) Fine Dupont Dacron tier curtains... Of course, they're sun resistant and insect-mildew proof.
2017 Caboolture (Queensland) News (Nexis) 11 Jan. 31 Just make sure you adhere to council regulations on fence height, and use suitable sun-resistant plants.
(iii) With nouns.
sun deprivation n.
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1974 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 12 Mar. 5/5 Toddlers..line up for ultra violet sun lamp exercises... It's one of several health precautions to offset sun-deprivation hazards.
2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 7 July (Features section) 21 The link between sun deprivation and weak or brittle bones.
sun exposure n.
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1844 Amer. Turf Reg. & Sporting Mag. Feb. 82 Face unshaven for six weeks, the die of sun exposure and camping out upon it.
1942 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Sept. 308/2 Two patients admitted to unusually heavy sun exposure the day before the rash began.
2006 Women's Health May 112/1 Sun exposure has been labeled the #1 cause of premature aging in humans.
sun sensitivity n.
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1937 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 July 48/2 Sun Sensitivity. ‘F. L.’ would be glad of suggestions for treating a case of sensitivity to sunlight.
2008 Brunswick (Georgia) News (Nexis) 22 May (Lifestyle section) Certain medications increase sun sensitivity.
b. Instrumental, with past participles and adjectives.
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(i) With the sense ‘by or with the sun, sunlight, or sunshine’.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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OE Maxims II 7 Winter byð cealdost.., sumor sunwlitegost [lit. ‘sun-fairest’].
1595 B. Barnes Divine Cent. Spirituall Sonnets lxxx. sig. F4 A sonne-blowne Rose.
1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. B2v No sun-grac'd mount? how can the sun mounts grace When mountaines seeke his countnance to deface?
1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 17 My Sunne-bred lookes.
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) x. cccxcv. 162 He..reach'd not his designed Bethany Till two days more their Sun-bred lives had spent.
1770 J. Ross Contempl. in Wks. (MS) 226 Fragrant Gales refresh the Sun-flagged Flow'rs.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. iii. 78 The sun-awakened avalanche!
1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiii. 290 My intention was then formed, but not mature for communication; now it is ripe, sun-mellowed, perfect.
1867 J. Ingelow Story of Doom 214 Indian glades, Where kneel the sun-swart maids.
1919 V. Woolf Night & Day xx. 275 The sun-blazoned windows.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent xx. 343 She stepped across the sun-eaten plaza.
1957 L. Durrell Bitter Lemons 138 How could such a sun-bruised world be transformed?
a1960 M. Trist in ‘B. James’ Austral. Short Stories (1963) 258 He was a nice baby, blue-eyed, fair-haired and with sun-flushed skin.
2013 Irish Independent (Nexis) 29 July 30 Glass-covered, and sun-strewn in summer, it [sc. a studio] could be reached by means of a spiral staircase from the ground floor.
(ii) With past participles.
sun-battered adj.
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1877 M. M. Grant in St. James's Mag. Dec. 598 She sat as she had sat yesterday, silent, motionless, sun-battered and silver-crowned.
1962 L. Whishaw Mexico Unknown xix. 237 We played with the sea until we were exhausted, then sticky and sun-battered we crawled into our damp garments and headed for Guatemala City.
2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 June (Travel section) 19 We..found a ramshackle hut by the beach that advertised whale excursions by means of a sun-battered sign propped against the warped wood.
sun-begotten adj. now somewhat rare
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1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther i. 18 A slimy-born and sun-begotten Tribe.
1830 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 833 Sun-begotten, Cloud-born Angel!
1912 W. de la Mare Listeners 24 A sea Of sun-begotten grain.
1978 Current Anthropol. 19 557/3 (table) ‘Sun-begotten’.
sun-blasted adj.
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1865 A. H. Japp Three Great Teachers 151 The burnt sun-blasted earth draws more fully of the dew into its bosom.
1987 A. Miller Timebends ii. 175 I made my way down the stone tiers of that vast, vine-grown, sun-blasted amphitheatre chiseled out of the mountain.
2004 Dive Sept. 28 The dive sites of Horseshoe Bay in this sun-blasted backwater of Indonesia arguably have the most densely populated coral walls in the world.
sun-crowned adj.
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1792 R. Cumberland Calvary viii. 15 The rays, That from the Savior's sun-crown'd temples beam'd.
1876 Methodist Family 7 13/2 The heart involuntarily bowed in mute admiration before their sublime sun-crowned heights.
1997 G. Keyes Blackgod ix. 112 It was a stepped pyramid formed of white stone, water geysering from its sun-crowned summit.
sun-dappled adj.
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1854 Spectator 23 Dec. 1367/1 Mr. W. Linnell's ‘Wood-spring’..claims praise fully as cordial, especially for its central sun-dappled brushwood.
1924 R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin v. 80 The sun-dappled herds a-skipping to the song.
2006 Guardian 16 Sept. (Travel section) 4/2 Deep in woodland, a mile from any road, 13 eco-cottages sit in a Celtic land of coves and sun-dappled creeks.
sun-dazzled adj.
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1838 B. von Arnim Diary of Child 305 The red and white colours flying and the powder-smoke in the sun-dazzled fields.
1920 Boys' Life Aug. 26/3 Inside it was dark at first to their sun-dazzled eyes.
2002 P. Theroux Dark Star Safari (2003) iv. 59 The lanky shrouded inhabitants looked spectral, as people often do in glarey sun-dazzled places.
sun-dusted adj.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > of or relating to sunlight > giving forth rays > of specific type of sunbeam
unbraided1879
sun-dusted1903
1903 A. B. Dodd In Palaces Sultan xvii. 252 The exceeding quiet about us seemed to woo time to do its worst. And the worst all the havoc of succeeding empires had wrought was to hang aloft sun-dusted bastions; to make brown ruins glorious with blue sky mosaics.
2006 H. Clare Running for Hills 259 They climb back up the Patch, lean on the gate at the top, and gaze at it all, at the late afternoon and the sun-dusted valley.
sun-filled adj.
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1857 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 468/2 Ideas are often poor ghosts; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them.
1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 260 A sun-filled atmosphere.
2007 N.Y. Mag. 28 May 112/1 (advt.) A sun-filled living room with double fireplace.
sun-flecked adj.
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1835 N.-Y. Mirror 9 May 297/1 We flew past Virginia Water, and through the sun-flecked shades of Windsor Park, with the speed of the wind.
a1950 J. Cleary in W. Murdoch & H. Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 438 Her laugh is a warm, tumbling sound, sun-flecked and musical.
2004 CMJ New Music Monthly No. 122. 34/2 Her voice soaring as strings ripple out like rings from a stone tossed into a sun-flecked pond.
sun-flooded adj.
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1875 T. H. Boulger Pretty Miss Bellew vi. 162 They hauled a great brown boat..up from the sun-flooded waters of the bay to the sun-flooded yellow sands above them.
1904 E. von Arnim Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen 156 Up there in the sun-flooded space among the shimmering bracken.
2016 Canberra Times (Nexis) 16 July a4 A sun-flooded room convinced the current owners of an early Canberra cottage they had found their new home.
sun-fringed adj.
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1830 Ld. Tennyson Madeline in Poems 22 Frowns perfect-sweet along the brow Light-glooming over eyes divine Like little clouds sunfringed, are thine, Evervarying Madeline.
1905 B. Williams Down Country Lanes 49 A rose-bud grew by a sun-fringed path Where zephyrs gently blew.
2001 Guardian (Nexis) 23 June (Travel section) 12 We dampened our paper and lay on the washes, producing angry clouds, sun-fringed clouds, mares' tails and cirrhus.
sun-gilded adj.
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1615 T. Evans Oedipus iii. sig. Ev There bitter-berried Daphne, Mirrha stood,..The vpright Alder, and Sunne-guilded Pine.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xii. 190 Day after day, in the sun-gilded cabin, the whiskey-dealer's thermometer stood at 84.
1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells iii. 26 Only one harbinger of future woe Came to me in those far, sun-gilded days.
2014 Paisley Daily Express (Nexis) 7 Apr. 6 Skylarks still sing their sibilant songs as they hover on sun-gilded wings.
sun-gilt adj.
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1651 J. Harington Hist. Polindor & Flostella ii. 76 Floating Temple..Came toward, on the sun-guilt-wave.
1807 Salmagundi 7 Mar. 103 Along Ausonia's sun-gilt shore.
1954 B. B. Burwell Our Brother the Sun xv. 105 The sun-gilt face held him in something akin to holy awe.
2009 Australian (Nexis) 5 Oct. (Features section) 13 A backdrop of a sun-gilt Sydney Harbour.
sun-illuminated adj.
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1827 Sat. Pennsylvania Gaz. 21 Dec. The hot air seemed composed of glimmering masses of ever-moving atoms, like the sun-illuminated sands of the Desert.
1926 F. A. Grondal Music of Spheres xvii. 299 The bright crescent, which is the young moon's arms enclosing the old moon, is the sun-illuminated portion of the moon.
2011 Independent Traveller (Nexis) 2 Apr. (Travel section) 4 I..basked on a sun-illuminated rock.
sun-illumined adj.
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1738 J. Thomson Liberty (new ed.) ii. in Wks. (new ed.) II. 48 There gayly broke the Sun-illumin'd Cloud.
1828 Bower of Taste 28 June 404/2 Not a cloud obscures his sun-illumined horizon.
1907 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 42 339 The animals turned and faced the sun-illumined area.
2012 N.W. Florida Daily News (Nexis) 26 Mar. (State & Regional News section) It [sc. the manatee] bore a long scar on its tail and shimmered a tealish color in the clear and sun-illumined water.
sun-lashed adj.
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1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray ix. 161 The green, flickering, sun-lashed garden.
1959 M. Whistler Enchanted Autumn v. 49 It was only when he mentioned Sicily that he seemed to grow tired of talking about sun-lashed islands.
2016 Paisley Daily Express (Nexis) 2 June (Sport section) 21 It was as though John brought the weather from his homeland as the sun-lashed course was lit up by his fine play.
sun-licked adj.
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1905 H. Nisbet Hathor & Other Poems 10 One massive spray of passion fruit fell o'er The sun-licked wall, and caught the downward pour Of light intense.
2016 Cape Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 16 June (Motoring section) 1 The sun-licked Adriatic coastline of Italy.
sun-loved adj.
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?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads v. 177 In the Sun-lou'd Lycian greenes.
1831 J. Wilson Unimore iv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 151 The other [face]..brighter glows In rivalry of all those sun-loved locks.
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 12 Sun-loved,..but not shallow streams.
2016 Swarthmore Phoenix (Swarthmore College, Pa.) (Nexis) 14 Apr. 1 The college would make a good stand-in for Arcadia: richly green, sun-loved.
sun-soaked adj.
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1861 Atlantic Monthly May 573 With voices chiming in quaint tune From sun-soaked hulls.
1910 H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly vii. 212 He..dreamt..of the East and West Indies until his heart ached to see those sun-soaked lands before he died.
2013 Daily Tel. 7 June 21/1 At a sun-soaked ranch in California.
sun-splashed adj.
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1897 ‘F. Macleod’ From Hills of Dream 134 The sun-splashed, rain-drenched, mist-girt, storm-beat wood of human life.
1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 280 The sun-splashed gloom of the riding-school.
2006–7 Trav. Mood Winter 10 Intentionally castaway on a sun-splashed Maldivian island with nothing but each other, a gourmet picnic hamper [etc.].
sun-swept adj.
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1872 M. G. Watkins in Monthly Packet Nov. 499 Silent all is sun-swept hill, Rich meadow, moorland, lake.
1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City vi. 151 Blown by a fresh breeze on a sun-swept moorland.
2016 El Paso (Texas) Times (Nexis) 14 Nov. c2 Seven under par through the first 13 holes on a sun-swept Sunday morning.
sun-tipped adj.
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1853 F. W. Shelton in Knickerbocker Feb. 177 The steep declivities bristling with icy spikes sun-tipped, surmounted by a single star, and all the earth bestrewn with untold wealth.
1924 W. Steele in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1924 (1925) 222 It's a fog-dawn, the light from the sun-tipped hills coming down at every angle through the pearly smother.
2012 Cairns (Austral.) Post (Nexis) 21 Apr. (News section) 24 While they and the pilot-cum-tour guide did all the talking—pointing out the world's oldest rainforest, the Reef,..waterfalls and sun-tipped peaks—I sat and gazed, speechless.
sun-topped adj.
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1894 J. Miller in Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly July 95 Or lowly lily of a night, or sun-topped tower of a hill.
1937 P. S. Bliss Poems of Places 57 A sky comber rolls in, And, sun-topped, Breaks and foams On the horizon.
2008 D. A. Simpson Audrey of Mountains 9 The ever present, sun-topped mountains of New Mexico.
sun-washed adj.
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1884 Albert Lea (Minnesota) Enterprise 8 Aug. Algesiras looka over ze blue water..toward ze white sun-washed walls of Ceuta.
1930 Boys' Life Dec. 7/3 A sun-washed, peaceful Sunday morning.
2011 C. Ericson Navy Seal Security 76 She watched the sea breeze toss the ends of Riley's sun-washed hair.
(b) With the sense ‘changed or affected by the sun; spec. damaged by the sun’.
sun-black adj.
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1906 A. Noyes Drake i. 2 The bright brass ear-rings in the sun-black ears.
2009 Sunday Times (Nexis) 14 June 56 A sun-black dog with the light in him so bright that the rest of life went into shadow when he was killed.
sun-blackened adj.
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1850 Christian Reformer Dec. 720 If Homer had any distinct conception of their geographical position, he probably placed them [sc. Ethiopians] immediately above Egypt, whence he believed them to spread in indefinite extension to the east and west, wherever there was a rumour of sun-blackened men.
1905 Cent. Mag. Aug. 489/1 These stern-faced, sun-blackened young men.
2016 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 8 Jan. 30 We may love a sunburnt country but sun-blackened skin is never a good look.
sun-blanched adj.
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1840 R. Browning Sordello vi. 252 The few fine locks Stained like pale honey oozed from topmost rocks Sunblanched the livelong summer.
1949 Kenyon Rev. 11 87 To take the measure of sun-blanched pavement..would scarcely explain the extraordinary scale.
2016 Sunday Tel. 31 July (Living section) 15/1 Trancoso..boasts picture-perfect fishermen's cottages in all colours of the rainbow and a sun-blanched, Unesco-protected town square.
sun-bleached adj.
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1790 R. Tully Let. 26 Apr. in Narr. Ten Years' Resid. Tripoli (1816) 219 With glasses we have seen the caravan at so great a distance, that they appeared at first sight, on these sun bleached deserts, like a crooked line from the stroke of a pencil.
1835 J. E. Alexander Sketches in Portugal xi. 267 Peasants with long and sun-bleached hair floating about their shoulders..stood behind fruit and vegetable baskets.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. a10/3 The approaching slick has not hurt business at the long strip of sun-bleached sand.
2012 Vintage Life Mar. 21/1 Flirty fabrics in pale, dolly mixture shades evoked a certain faded, sun-bleached quality.
sun-blistered adj.
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1848 Bentley's Misc. Mar. 275 Long ere noon the sun-blistered rock of St. Helena was shut out from our view, by the rising waters in which it seemed to submerge.
1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. iii. 67 They reached the sun-blistered pavilion..just before roll-call.
2008 New Yorker 21 Jan. 69/2 Sun-blistered paint that used to be metallic gold.
sun-bronzed adj.
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1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 882/2 Without a single sting on your sun-bronzed face or fingers.
1939 Life 28 Aug. 2/1 (advt.) A sun-bronzed, healthy body attests the splendid exercise you get from summer sports.
2008 Islands June 80/2 ‘To the dolce vita,’ toasted one sun-bronzed guest, a happy honeymooner.
sun-brown adj.
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1744 J. Warton Enthusiast 10 Or with fair Nymphs their Sun-brown Limbs to bathe.
1861 A. J. Munby Diary 19 May in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 93 His frank intelligent face..has a pure rich sunbrown tint.
1920 C. Scollard War Voices & Memories 58 A group of lads in frolic;—sun-brown hair, And sun-brown faces, limbs, and sun-brown feet, And laughing lips without a hint of care.
2015 C. Sneed Paris, He Said iii. ii. 257 I remember staring at his right ear. How oddly pale it is, I thought, compared to his sunbrown face.
sun-browned adj.
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1796 R. F. Cheetham Odes & Misc. 163 The parch'd herbage of the sun-brown'd field Rises revivified, and hails the showers.
1827 W. Scott Highland Widow in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. viii. 159 Donald's sun-browned countenance.
1926 Bulletin 25 June 12/3 Half a score of rangy chaps, sun-browned and sun-dried, splashing and laughing.
2004 Fiddlehead Spring 13 Clumps of sun-browned chickweed and pokeberry bushes.
sun-cracked adj.
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1840 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley viii, in Dublin Univ. Mag. May 522/2 An ould boat of the Lord's..is sun cracked from stem to stern.
1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 154 A grassy plain of..suncracked earth.
2016 Independent (Nexis) 17 Aug. (Features section) 34 The craggy, sun-cracked region of Andalusia.
sun-dark adj.
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1911 McClure's Mag. Apr. 603 He loved the sun-dark people As the young man loves his bride.
2003 R. Jordan Crossroads of Twilight xxiii. 470 A pretty, sun-dark young man.
sun-darkened adj.
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1855 Daily News 12 Jan. 5/6 His grey hair and dark moustache—absence of whisker on his sun-darkened face—gave him the aspect of a foreigner.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Sun iii. 11 The child too was another creature, with a peculiar quiet, sun-darkened absorption.
2014 Independent (Nexis) 29 Sept. 16 The company claims it is intended to help people with age spots or sun-darkened skin.
sun-dazed adj.
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1857 G. MacDonald Poems 137 Crescent, low, wandering sun-dazed away, Unconscious of her own star-mingled ray.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Sun i. 6 She went home, only half-seeing, sun-blinded and sun-dazed.
2004 Toronto Star (Nexis) 3 July a22 Streams of sun-dazed festival attendees.
sun-faded adj.
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1783 Daily Advertiser 13 Mar. A Pair of blue Harrateen Window Curtains, four Feet wide by three Yards long, draw up in Drapery, Sun-faded a little.
1887 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea (1899) I. 34 The maroon cloth..is..neither strained nor meagre nor sunfaded.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Sun iv. 13 Her sun-faded fair hair in a little cloud.
2014 S. Barry Temporary Gentleman (2015) v. 45 The bay outside stirred and heaved in the wide windows, shrouded all the same in sun-faded and dusty-looking curtains.
sun-flaked adj.
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1869 ‘Ouida’ Tricotrin III. 295 The bold white-winged sea-bird that finds its joys in endless shores and boundless seas, in wild west winds and sun-flaked clouds, in rocky heights and ocean dawns.
1934 S. Spender Vienna iii. 30 The once sun-flaked walls.
1999 D. Shifren Clay's Justice xxiv. 167 Clay saw Morgan's sun-flaked lips snarl above his yellowed teeth.
sun-goldened adj.
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1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal xii. 233 And when we the sun-goldened brow Of the distant future see, As stately palm-trees wave in air Our spirits bend to thee.
1918 D. A. Poling Huts in Hell xxi. 213 I shall never cease to see him, a heroic portrait.., painted against a great confusion and hung beneath a sun-goldened sky.
2010 Times (Nexis) 20 Dec. (Sport section) 61 The broad-shouldered, gravel-voiced, sun-goldened figure.
sun-heated adj.
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1834 Metrop. Mag. 10 374 Narratives that treat upon sun-heated maidens and warriors that occupy the countries of oriental classical literature.
1909 Gleanings Bee Culture 15 Dec. 771/2 Possibly the low-degree heat of a sun-heated honey is the reason it keeps liquid so long rather than for any chemical reason; but we think not.
2004 L. Desoto Blade of Grass i. 12 The water is warm on Tembi's fingers when she opens the faucet, warm from its journey through the sun-heated iron pipe.
sun-parched adj.
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1604 W. Alexander Aurora sig. K3v Sun-parch'd people loath the precious stones, And through abundance vilifie the gold.
1744 W. Havard Regulus iii. iii. 36 Africk's Sun-parch'd Clime.
1848 J. R. Lowell Poems 2nd Ser. 65 The next heart-beat, the wind-hurled pile,..Bursts rattling over the sun-parched roof.
1915 G. Frankau Tid'apa i. 7 Do you know our churchyard at Aden; lone tombs on a sun-parched plain.
2005 Sport Diver June 88/1 We pass through sun-parched forests, their brown beauty awaiting the rainy season.
sun-reddened n.
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1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 33 The Two Pillars stand O'er the sun-redden'd Western Straits.
1974 Washington Post 7 July a5/1 The lanky, sun-reddened man in the baseball cap.
2013 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 13 Aug. 10 I reclined in the heat like some sun-reddened Adonis.
sun-ripe adj.
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1664 W. Drage Physical Nosonomy 224 Sunripe Quinces..laid upon the Eyes all night, doth often much good.
1765 R. Michell Hackwood Park 14 Her Cheeks excell'd the Sun-ripe Apples red.
1852 United Presbyterian Mag. Feb. 49 Autumn, with her sun-ripe stores,..has fled away.
1993 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 16 June 34 It has become common practice for wine makers to add acid to some sun-ripe wines to boost freshness.
2013 J. L. Moyer Delia's Shadow i. 14 Curls the color of sun-ripe wheat foamed out of the hat.
sun-ripened adj.
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1721 R. Bradley Gen. Treat. Husbandry & Gardening II. 137 Why the baked Fruit, and the Sun-ripen'd Fruit of the same kind, are so different in their Tastes.
1858 Lady's Newspaper 16 Oct. 243/2 The richest of sun-ripened harvests is composed of separate grains.
1935 Discovery June 162/2 The fruit is fully sun-ripened and canned immediately after gathering.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 10 Nov. 28/1 It is best consumed with some of her homemade sriracha, a hot sauce made from sun-ripened chili peppers, vinegar, garlic, sugar and salt.
sun-scarred adj.
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1854 G. H. Heap Central Route to Pacific vi. 100 Our ragged and forlorn appearance, unshaven chins, and sun-scarred visages, excited great merriment.
1897 J. L. Allen Choir Invisible xv. 159 Frenzied fightings and awful deaths had left but the sun-scarred dust.
2016 USA Today (Nexis) 29 Dec. 1 a A sun-scarred German rarely seen without a cigarette.
sun-scorched adj.
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1596 R. Linche Certaine Sonnets in Diella sig. Cv The sun-scorcht Sea-man when he sees the Seas all in a furie hoise him to the skye, And throwe him down againe.
a1645 W. Lithgow Scotland's Teares in Trans. Lit. & Antiquarian Soc. Perth (1827) 1 71 To moyst my sun-scorched veyne, with liquid drops.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 358 His march over the sun-scorched plateau.
2011 A. Gibbons Act of Love (2012) xxi. 222 I saw the scepticism written large on every sun-scorched face.
sun-seared adj.
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1858 J. E. Jackson Cecil & Mary 12 The sun-seared plains Of tropic lands.
1940 Washington Post 3 Nov. ii. 4/6 Mississippi State's undefeated Maroons came to life..to..defeat a fighting Southwestern eleven, 13-0, before about 8,000 sun-seared fans.
2006 C. N. Adichie Half Yellow Sun (2007) ii. 37 Here, the sand was fine, grey, and sun-seared, nothing like the clumpy, red earth back home.
sun-shrivelled adj.
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1844 T. Hawkins Wars Jehovah vi. 267 Death he dissolved Like a sun-shrivell'd cloud.
1974 Guardian 9 Feb. 18/5 A moscato made with sun-shrivelled grapes.
2000 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 26 Nov. v9 Along the island's high tide line I saw some bleached white plastic bottles and sun-shrivelled tangles of fishing net.
sun-stained adj.
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1853 Illustr. London Mag. Sept. 138/2 The bees alighted upon her sun-stained fingers, and fed upon the honey which she held in her hand.
1916 D. H. Lawrence Twilight in Italy 36 Her hands and her face were all sun-bleached and sun-stained.
2011 Iowa Rev. 41 21 Put them on our cheap, sun-stained couch.
sun-warm adj.
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1819 P. B. Shelley in E. Dowden Life Shelley (1886) II. 247 The soil which is stirring in the sun-warm earth.
1941 B. Miller Farewell Leicester Square xv. 268 Alec..scooped with the spoon and dropped a radiant sun-warm dollop of marmalade on to his plate.
2005 A. E. Reeves Next of Kin ii. 10 She could almost taste the roundness of a sun-warm mulberry bursting on her tongue.
sun-warmed adj.
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1825 Lit. Chron. & Weekly Rev. 15 Jan. 43/3 Shadowing the sun-warmed soil, In fond affection we would grow.
1950 P. H. Love in H. Brickell O. Henry Prize Stories of 1951 (1951) 170 The sweet sun-warmed apple smell drifted from the orchard.
2014 York Press (Nexis) 3 Apr. An orangery for the sun-warmed summer days and a cheering, cosy, fire-warmed spot for when winter comes and the nights draw in.
sun-weathered adj.
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1912 Sc. Geogr. Mag. Apr. 173 The sun-weathered ice-grains crumble beneath the boot.
2011 Irish Times (Nexis) 27 Aug. (Travel section) 8 The intricate maze of white-washed buildings and terracotta tiles gives the island an intense Mediterranean feel only added to by the sun-weathered locals who speak disdainfully of le Continent.
sun-whitened adj.
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1834 F. Trollope Belgium & W. Germany in 1833 II. xx. 248 A monstrous expanse, entirely covered by detached, bare, dry, sun-whitened rocks.
1910 Harvard Monthly Feb. 206 The sun-whitened whale-rib fence which marked off the close from the sombre miles of drab poverty-weed barren.
2011 World Affairs 173 57 Sun-whitened buildings perch in desert emptiness.
sun-withered adj.
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1835 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xvi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 893/1 Branches of trees..with their yesterday bright green leaves, now sun-withered.
1922 H. Williamson Dandelion Days 56 Her head was bald and small, and when she removed her woollen cap, it resembled a sun-withered wurzel.
2015 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 21 Nov. (Traveller section) 30 We pass an old man sitting on a wall.., his sun-withered face gazing out over the mountains.
sun-worn adj.
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1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 204 The tangled sun-worn slope 'Twixt noon and moonrise.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 28 Oct. Saints with brawny limbs and sun-worn faces.
2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 May (Travel section) 11 Soon the tourists were gone too, and the only people left beside me were a handful of sun-worn priests occupying the temple.
sun-wrinkled adj.
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1825 J. M. Sherer Story of Life II. 110 The story-teller was but a common driver of the camel, sun-wrinkled, and worn.
1949 Country Life 18 Mar. 604/3 A sun-wrinkled, grinning face and a mop of tight, curly hair.
2012 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 17 Sept. (Features section) 3 There are a couple of sun-wrinkled blokes surfcasting.
sun-yellowed adj.
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1824 Examiner 16 May 307/1 A sun-yellowed river softly flows.
1908 Century Mag. July 467/2 An extraordinary number of children with sun-yellowed hair, bare red legs, and the merest excuse for clothing.
2013 Weekend Austral. (Travel ed.) (Nexis) 12 Oct. (Review section) 6 Wide fields of flax, sun-yellowed grasses,..and beds of irises growing from thatched farmhouse roofs.
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(a) Similative.
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OE Cynewulf Juliana 229 He bi feaxe het ahon ond ahebban on heanne beam, þær seo sunsciene [fæmne] slege þrowade.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. O3 His sunbroad shield.
1622 J. Taylor Common Whore sig. B4v One glance or glimpse of the translucence of your eyes sunne dazeling corruscancie, will exile all the clowdy vapours of heart-tormenting moody mellancholly.
1886 Bismarck (Dakota Territory) Weekly Tribune 3 Aug. With his world-beating, sun-dazzling show... Cole's colossal shows will arrive in Bismarck to-morrow morning.
1918 D. H. Lawrence New Poems 9 The glimmer of the limes, sun-heavy sleeping, Goes trembling past me up the College wall.
1937 W. de la Mare This Year, Next Year 50 Came the woodman with his axe into the sun-sweet glade.
2006 Atlanta July 182 Explore the countryside, discover roadside curiosities and sample the fresh, sun-sweet fare—all from the air-conditioned comfort of your family vehicle.
(b)
sun-sized adj.
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1883 W. Arthur On Difference between Physical & Moral Law iii. x. 59 Whether we take the heavenly bodies.., or small seeds, insects, or animal tissues,..we find that in the sun-sized dimensions of the one, or the microscopic dimensions of the other, there is proportion.
1967 I. Asimov To Ends of Universe v. 60 How long can such a Sun-sized H-bomb last?
2011 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 17 June (Final ed.) a2 The burst of gamma rays that screamed past Earth..was evidence of a sun-sized star being shredded by a black hole.
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a. With the first element in the singular.
sun-and-planet adj. (also sun-and-planets) Mechanics (attributive) designating an epicyclic or planetary gearing in which one or more small gears or wheels (planet gears) revolve around a larger central gear or wheel (= sun gear n., sun wheel n. 2b); of or relating to such gearing; as sun-and-planet gear, sun-and-planet motion, sun-and-planet wheel, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [adjective] > types of cogs or gears
sun-and-planet1796
spiral gearinga1877
chainless1897
planetary1904
epicyclic1906
hypoid1926
positraction1957
1796 W. Farish Plan Course Lect. Arts & Manuf. Chem. 28 Circular motion produced..by sun and planet wheel.
1803 B. H. Latrobe 20 May in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 6 (1804) 92 The fly-wheel is driven by a sun and planet motion.
1816 R. Buchanan Propelling Vessels by Steam 20 For many years, instead of the crank, Mr. Watt used what are called sun and planet wheels, the one working round the other.
1864 Sci. Amer. 12 Mar. 173/1 Motion is imparted by a sun and planet gear.
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools 246 The Sun-and-Planet Motion is a sort of epicyclic train with periodic action.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 5 Dec. 4/2 The gear itself is arranged on the ‘sun-and-planet’ principle.
1904 G. B. Shaw Common Sense of Munic. Trading 9 Committees of directors who do not know the difference between a piston rod and a sun-and-planets gear.
1979 J. Muirden Sidgwick's Amateur Astronomer's Handbk. (ed. 4) xiv. 240 A purely mechanical arrangement could involve..separate drive wheel and polar axis, the two being linked either by a sector or tangent drive, or by a pair of ‘sun-and-planet’ pinions.
2002 B. Marsden Watt's Perfect Engine 115 The fifth [sc. of Watt's new methods] was his now-famous ‘sun-and-planet’ motion, and it stole the show.
2008 F. Nickols in J. Billingsley & R. Bradbeer Mechatronics & Machine Vision in Pract. 9 Motion in a Straight Line with no Rotation... This occurs when the radii of the sun and planet wheels are set to infinite radius.
sun arc n. now historical a powerful arc lamp frequently used in film production to imitate the light from the sun; also (and in earliest use) more fully sun arc lamp.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > lights
sun arc1889
sunlight1928
photoflood1933
scoop1940
sun gun1960
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > arc light > sunspot
sun arc1889
sunspot1926
1889 tr. F. Uppenborn Hist. Transformer 43 At Lanzo there were nine Bernstein lamps, 16 Swan lamps, a sun arc lamp, and two Siemens' arc lamps.
1928 Amer. Speech 3 366 ‘Back-spot’.., ‘baby-spots’, ‘sunarcs’, ‘twins’, ‘floods’ and others.
2008 Calif. Hist. 86 53/1 Equipment such as the old sun-arcs, which were intensely hot to work under and made crackling noises unacceptable once sound was introduced, became obsolete.
† sun arising n. Obsolete (a) the region or direction in which the sun rises, the east; (b) the rising of the sun or the time at which this occurs, sunrise. [Compare sunrising n. Compare also (with sense (a)) orient n. and (with sense (b)) sunrise n. Compare further sun going down n.]
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the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [noun] > rise
sunrisingc1275
sun arisingc1350
source?a1400
sunrise1440
uprest1817
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]
aristc825
dawingc900
dayeOE
day-rimOE
day-redOE
mornOE
lightOE
lightingOE
dawning1297
day-rowa1300
grekinga1300
uprista1300
dayninga1325
uprisingc1330
sun arisingc1350
springc1380
springingc1380
day-springa1382
morrowingc1384
dayingc1400
daylighta1425
upspring1471
aurora1483
sky1515
orienta1522
breaking of the day1523
daybreak1530
day-peep1530
morrow dayc1530
peep of the morning1530
prick of the day?1533
morning1535
day-breaking1565
creek1567
sunup1572
breach of the day1579
break of day or morn1584
peep of day1587
uprise1594
dawna1616
day-dawn1616
peep of dawn1751
strike of day1790
skreigh1802
sunbreak1822
day-daw1823
screech1829
dayclean1835
sun dawn1835
first light1838
morning-red1843
piccaninny sun1846
piccaninny daylightc1860
gloaming1873
glooming1877
sparrow-fart1886
crack1887
sun-spring1900
piccaninny dawn1936
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > light of dawn
sunrisingc1275
sun arisingc1350
sunrise1440
twilightc1440
sunbreak1822
gloaming1873
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xlix. 2 (MED) Fram þe sonne arisyng vn-to þe going a-doune [L. ab ortu solis usque ad occasum eius].
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Josh. xii. 1 These been þe kyngys whom smetyn þe sonys of Jrael & weeldedyn þe lond of hem byȝonde Iordan at þe sonne arisynge [a1382 Douce 369(1) south risynge; L.V. a1425 Royal risyng of the sunne, c1450 Bodl. 277 eest; L. solis ortum], fro þe streem of arnon vnto þe hul of hermon, & al þe est coost þat byholdeþ þe wildernes.
a1400 Ancrene Riwle (Pepys) (1976) 60 He þat lay in his bedde after þe sunne arisyng hadde no mete þat day.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) v. pr. vi. l. 5155 Þe þinges þat god haþ present, wiþ outen doute þei shulle ben, but somme of hem descendiþ of þe nature of þinges as þe sonne arysynge, and somme descendiþ of þe power of þe doers as þe man walkynge.
c1440 Astron. Cal. (Ashm. 391) Boþe of dawyng and of sonne arysing & also for þe sonne goyng downe.
sunback adj. and n. (a) adj. (of a garment) having a low-cut back; (b) n. a low-cut back of a garment (now somewhat rare).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > back > types of
sunback1929
beetle-back1933
snap-back1937
1929 N.Y. Times 8 Apr. 35/3 (heading) Sample ‘Sunback’ Frocks.
1929 Shiner (Texas) Gaz. 20 June The yoke blouse with a ‘sun back’, also the flaring trunks with a hip yoke, are important style details.
1930 Los Angeles Times 20 Apr. iii. 8/5 (advt.) Bathing suits are re-sized or made sun-back.
1934 Times 22 June 17/6 Many swimming and bathing suits now have a ‘sun-back’ and a high throat line.
1974 Sunday Messenger (Athens, Ohio) 12 May a3 (advt.) For the active woman, this scoop neck style with a popular sun back and tiered skirt will be the thing you need.
2003 M. Hoffman Dead in Water i. 25 Lynn was a curvaceous, slim brunette wearing a Christian Dior sunback dress and strappy sandals.
sun-backed adj. (of a garment) having a low-cut back; = sunback adj. and n. (a).
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1929 Women's Wear Daily 21 Mar. ii. 10/4 Stores which have given considerable attention to featuring low-backed foundation garments with the sun-backed frocks report much bigger responses.
1954 DuBois (Pa.) Courier-Express 18 June 14/1 All of your cottons will be all right, unless they are flagrantly sun-backed.
2007 V. O'Connor Cure xii. 173 Cyd returned in her cute sun-backed dress.
sun barge n. (in ancient Egyptian mythology) the barge in which the sun is said to be carried across the sky (see sense 1b); (also) an image or representation of this.
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1878 F. Chabas tr. Magic Papyrus of Harris Coll. in Rec. of Past X. 146 Thy barge is joyful; free are thy paths; as thou hast smothered That Evil Disk accomplish your task. [Note] Of akhimou, rowers of the sun-barge.
1938 G. C. Ring Gods of Gentiles xiv. 117 Ra moves through the universe by day in his royal sun-barge attended by other gods.
2015 M. Pearson & H. Pearson tr. Verrecchia's God of No Fixed Addr. i. iii. 13 I have no doubt that they [sc. the Israelites] carry in their minds the many Egyptian religious ceremonies, the parade of the sun barge on the Nile, the funeral processions.
sun bark n. (also sun barque) (in ancient Egyptian mythology) the bark in which the sun is said to be carried across the sky (see sense 1b).
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1867 in Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. (1871) 9 p. xxxiii The righteous pass though a form of justification, and then, emerging at the gates of the West, follow the sun-bark in its bright career.
1923 D. A. Mackenzie China & Japan (1994) x. 148 Wu Ti's sage..never returned to earth. His boat..was believed to have reached the Celestial River that flows round the Universe, and along which sails the sun-barque of the Egyptian god Ra.
2017 M. Smith Following Osiris v. 309 Seti..can sail through the sky in the sun bark during the day, and when the solar deity enters the west he is among those who help to tow his vessel through the underworld.
sun-bask v. intransitive to bask in the sun; to sunbathe.
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1908 Bull. N.Y. State Mus. No. 125. 112 It was here that Ha-ja-noh, one summer day when paddling his canoe through the swamp land, found it [sc. the serpent] sun basking on the floating sedge grass.
1967 C. B. Christesen in Coast to Coast 1965–6 29 When..taxed on this subject while sun-basking by herself on the top deck.
2013 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 27 Sept. 8 A two-person hot tub sits on the balcony of a double-storey split room, allowing guests to sun-bask while enjoying a mojito.
sun-basked adj. bathed in sunshine; = sun-bathed adj. 1.
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1781 W. J. Mickle Almada Hill 2 In other clime through sun-bask'd scenes I stray, As the fair landscape leads my thoughtful way.
1821 Lady B. Dacre Pedrarias ii. i. in Dramas & Occas. Poems 120 New tortures shall compel These slothful slaves to ply their sun-bask'd limbs For conquerors.
1902 Chautauquan Aug. 486/1 The road ran between beautiful vineyards that sloped up the hillsides to the point where the Juras, no longer sun-basked, rose in huge palisades of stone.
2016 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 9 June An array of top-class riders strutted their stuff at Bramham, in front of sun-basked crowds surrounding the dressage arena.
sun-basking adj. that is basking in the sun; that sunbathes.
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1837 New Monthly Mag. Jan. 23 T' admit of vistas opening free, And sweet sun-basking places.
1850 Liverpool Mercury 5 Nov. 8/1 The distribution of the large portion of the profits of struggling industry amongst crowds of sun-basking, eating, and idling loungers.
1914 G. E. Woodberry N. Afr. & Desert iii. 126 We were past the ruinous-looking stretches of the brown, sun-basking wall, and began to be lost in a narrow canyon.
2006 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 12 June 47 The second-wicket pair reaped full reward for a stand of 111 from only 18 overs before a sun-basking crowd of 4,000.
sun basking n. the action of basking in the sun; sunbathing.
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1845 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 27 Oct. Money-making and sun-basking are not the principal business of men in a free State, but the defence of their liberties.
1904 E. Sandys Sportsman ‘Joe’ 288 A trifle of poplar-chopping, which is not for one moment to be compared with sun-basking in a grass-padded canoe as comfortable as a hammock.
2001 Daily Mail (Nexis) 27 Jan. We did a bit of sailing, lots of sun basking and most days, just before lunch, worked up an appetite as we walked..to one of around ten restaurants along the bay.
sun-beat adj. now U.S. warmed, damaged, or otherwise affected by the sun; on which the sun beats down; = sun-beaten adj.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > exposed to heat of sun
sunny?1440
sunned1565
sunburnt1634
sun-beat1636
insolate1652
subsolar1657
insolated1664
sun-beaten1751
sun-smitten1797
sun-bathed1839
1636 G. Sandys Paraphr. Psalmes David 91 As Sun-beat Snow, so let them thaw.
1763 G. Roberts Juvenile Poems 13 Thy rustling moss shall shade his Sun-beat brow.
1914 C. R. Enock Ecuador iv. 60 They struggled along the sunbeat deserts of the coast.
2013 Mississippi Rev. 41 50 The sun-beat patio chairs were missing strips of plastic.
sun-beaten adj. warmed, damaged, or otherwise affected by the sun; on which the sun beats down; cf. sun-beat adj.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > exposed to heat of sun
sunny?1440
sunned1565
sunburnt1634
sun-beat1636
insolate1652
subsolar1657
insolated1664
sun-beaten1751
sun-smitten1797
sun-bathed1839
1751 R. Erskine Repose of Faith under Tree of Life 10 Thus you see how the Bride of Christ may be scorched and Sunbeaten.
1808 Eye 25 Aug. 87 View that day-labourer, see the big drop of sweat hanging on his sun beaten brow.
1951 Life 2 July 90/2 A sun-beaten rock in Manila Bay.
2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 July (Mag.) You spend a long time at the beach in the summer, you're sun-beaten, you're tired.
sunbelt n. originally and chiefly U.S. an area or belt of land that receives a lot of sunshine; esp. (with the and usually with capital initial) a zone approximately consisting of the southern third of the United States, from California in the west to Florida and the Carolinas in the east, whose favourable climate has brought about an influx of population from the north since the 1970s.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > southern states
south1779
Sunny South1833
Negroland1836
Old South1847
Dixie1859
Cousin Sally1861
sunbelt1918
down home1920
Deep South1936
1918 Gas Industry Nov. 339/2 This is the case in San Francisco, where gas is made in the sun belt of the Potrero to be sold in the fog of the western part of the city.
1947 N.Y. Times 7 Dec. xx3 (headline) A Calendar of Fiestas, Fairs and Mardi Gras in the Sunbelt.
1969 K. P. Phillips Emerging Republican Majority v. 438 Chart 134 illustrates how the electoral votes of the Sun Belt will have almost tripled in the half-century between 1920 and 1970.
1980 Christian Sci. Monitor 4 Dec. (Midwestern ed.) 2/2 In some of the wooded parts of this bustling Sun-belt city, white-tailed deer have been spotted.
1997 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 16 Aug. l2 Australian Bureau of Statistics crime figures for 1996 also show not everything is rosy in the sunbelt.
2015 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 4 June (Metro section) 13 As more people move to the Sunbelt, fans of the sport [sc. ice hockey] have brought their passion and extensive knowledge..with them.
sun blast n. a sudden burst of sunshine, a blast of heat or warmth from the sun; also figurative.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > burst or spell of
sunshine1590
sun blast1622
summer-blenk1637
summer blink1641
sunburst?1815
sunbreak1826
sun flash1834
1622 F. Rous Dis. of Time xix. 506 A boysterous wind makes the man hold his cloke the faster, which a warme sunblast would haue gently perswaded from his backe.
1669 J. Flavell Husbandry Spiritualized App. 264 The Sun-blasts of prosperity.
1837 L. Emra Short Serm. & Hymns for Children xlvi. 157 Every storm that blew upon them [sc. the leaves], every sun-blast that scorched them, only made them of a brighter and brighter colour.
1913 Munsey's Mag. Feb. 781/2 By ten o'clock she would be on Broadway, beginning her round of the agencies—a courageous, shabby figure in the withering sun-blast.
1998 D. Kotun Àbíkú xii. 216 She squinted as though blinded by a sun blast.
sun blight n. (a) U.S. damage to a plant, esp. a fruit tree, caused by exposure to strong sunlight; spec. = sun scald n. 1a (now rare); †(b) Australian a disorder of the eye (probably photokeratitis) caused by or attributed to exposure to strong sunlight (obsolete).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > conjunctivitis or ophthalmitis > types of
psorophthalmia1585
psorophthalmy1656
xerophthalmia1656
ophthalmia neonatorum1835
photophobophthalmia1842
sun blight1848
sand-blight1852
sandy blight1869
blepharoconjunctivitis1890
pink-eye1897
klieg eyes1923
bung eye1933
shipyard eye1943
red-eye1952
1848 Horticulturalist Feb. 386/1 Sun-blight,..by far the most serious blight of the pear tree—that which first makes its appearance on the body of the large branches and the trunk of the trees.
1886 Trans. Illinois State Hort. Soc. 412 Are there any varieties of the apple that are free from sun-blight?
1889 McIvor Times (Heathcote, Victoria) 10 May (advt.) It [sc. H. E. Kugelmann's Eye Ointment] will cure all eye diseases, as Sun Blight, Sandy Blight, Watery Blight, Mattery or Humory Blight, Inflammation of Eyes and Lids, Chronic Opthalmia [sic], and all and every Eye Disease.
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 215 Your eyes bad? A touch of sun-blight. Wear a pair of blue glasses until the inflammation goes.
1915 Special Crops Jan. 70/2 We all can see quite plainly how the root grows no more when sun-blight or other cause destroys the top.
1956 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye Gaz. 4 Apr. 1 (caption) The tree..had been weakened by sun blight in the dry summer of 1936.
sun-blinded adj. suffering from temporarily impaired vision while adapting from sunlight to dim light; (also) dazzled or temporarily blinded by the glare of the sun; cf. sun-blind adj.
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1876 G. MacDonald Thomas Wingfold II. ix. 78 To his sun-blinded eyes the shop looked very dark.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Sun i. 6 She went home, only half-seeing, sun-blinded and sun-dazed.
2004 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 17 May d6 One of the casualties of construction delays..has been the swimming pool's roof, a prospect that promises..sun-blinded backstrokers.
sunblock n. (also sunbloc) a substance that helps to protect the skin from ultraviolet rays and prevent sunburn; (now chiefly) cream, lotion, etc., containing such a substance which is applied to the skin to protect it from the sun, or a product of this type; cf. sunscreen n. 2.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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1953 Washington Post 19 May 5/1 (advt.) Sun Bloc Lotion—helps keep skin fair.
1955 Life 30 May 48 (advt.) A total sun block developed by dermatologists for abnormally sun-sensitive skin.
1978 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 May 74 Products labeled as ‘sun blocks’ usually screen out all, or almost all, damaging rays.
2005 J. Weiner Goodnight Nobody xli. 369 I wiggled the children into their bathing suits and slathered their pale bodies with sunblock.
sun-blocking adj. that blocks the light from the sun; spec. (of a cream, clothing, etc.) that helps protect the skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet light (cf. sunblock n.).
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1919 J. E. Patterson Passage Barque Sappho 323 That dirty-looking, sun-blocking tower.
1941 Vogue 15 May 38/1 (caption) Use a sun-blocking base cream to avoid..sleeve-marks, weathering.
1990 New Dimensions May 67/3 A nuclear exchange would fill the atmosphere with so much sun-blocking soot and dust that the global temperature might fall as much as 45 degrees in a week.
2003 High Country News 4 Aug. 17/2 Hikers..are urged to hit the trail with sun-blocking clothing, moisture-wicking socks,..and distortion-free sunglasses.
sun boat n. (in ancient Egyptian mythology) the boat in which the sun is said to be carried across the sky (see sense 1b).
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1863 C. W. Goodwin in Archaeologia 39 455 In the upper row are twenty-four figures towing, by means of a rope, the sun-boat, which contains nine figures.
1938 G. C. Ring Gods of Gentiles xii. 104 For his reward, Horus is received permanently into the sun-boat and becomes the prototype of Pharaonic royalty by his adoption as son of Ra.
2004 A. C. Petty Dragons of Fantasy ix. 218 Egyptian tomb paintings reveal an undulating serpent of immense length rising out of the waves to confront Ra in his sun boat.
sun bonnet n. a light bonnet covering the neck and shading the face from the sun.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > woman's bonnet > types of > coal scuttle or sun bonnet
coal-scuttle bonnet1797
sun bonnet1820
kappie1834
scoop bonnet1846
1820 N.-Y. Lit. Jrnl. 15 Aug. 247/1 A rustic habiliment, consisting of a linsey-woolsey petticoat and short gown, and Dutch sun bonnet, could not conceal the mild expression of her countenance.
1941 J. Masefield In Mill 130 All the horses were wearing sun-bonnets and ear-flappers.
2004 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 24 Oct. (Final ed.) c3 The delegates strolled in suits and sun bonnets around the park's gardens, tennis courts, lawns and beaches.
sun-bonneted adj. wearing a sun bonnet.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a lady's bonnet
bonneted1648
poke-bonneted1831
sun-bonneted1839
1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 113/2 The bevy of sun-bonnetted lasses, who gave us of their pies and apples.
1947 Rotarian June 12/2 Sun-bonneted maids ply the ladies with punch (innocuous), cakes, fruits, and tea.
2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xxxi. 466 Playing Parcheesi on a back porch in Utah during summer with some old, sun-bonneted Mother of Zion.
† sun case n. Obsolete a firework producing a prolonged bright flame, typically forming part of a set piece (cf. sense 11).
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the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > parts of
quill1629
report1653
red fire1680
cartouche1719
blue light1761
sun case1765
choke1786
settle1873
touchpaper1873
wheel-case1875
lance1878
starting powder1886
pastille1890
1765 R. Jones New Treat. Artific. Fireworks ii. 43 (heading) For sun cases.
1864 H. Dussauce Pract. Treat. Matches, Gun Cotton, Colored Fires & Fulminating Powders xxxvi. 242 Sun Cases are strong cases made like those for rockets, and filled with a composition which burns more slowly than the rocket composition.
1909 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 13 July 7/3 ‘What's the Matter With Racine’ in 20-inch letters of fire, embellished with sun cases, brought the thousands to their feet.
sun chair n. a lightweight chair or lounger used for sunbathing; cf. sun lounger n.
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1892 Congregationalist (Boston, Mass.) 28 Apr. 138/4 The beach is covered with bath wagons..sun-chairs, donkey-chairs and queer people from all over the world.
1976 ‘W. Trevor’ Children of Dynmouth i. 19 Mrs Dass was reclining on a sun-chair in the bow-window.
2016 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 18 July She posted a picture of Liam lounging on a sun chair with his dog Dora.
sun chariot n. (chiefly in classical, Norse, and Hindu mythology) the chariot in which the sun is said to be drawn across the sky (see sense 1b); (also) an image or representation of this; cf. sun horse n.
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1832 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. Aug. 16 Phaeton..had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheelbarrow), but could and would insist on driving one.
1901 J. F. Hewitt Mythmaking Age i. ii. 70 This latter episode of the Brihati Sāman legend was called in Vedic ritual that indicated by the Rathamtara or Ratha-tur..Sāman, that celebrating the revolution or returning (tur) of the sun chariot (ratha) from North to South.
1977 Hist. Relig. 17 115 The sun chariot from Trundholm,..a symbol of the sun and probably the cult figure of a shrine which was conducted from time to time in procession across the fields.
2016 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Jan. 46/2 Clytie, whose love for Apollo was unrequited, gazes up yearningly at his sun chariot.
sun charm n. Anthropology a festival or ritual involving fire which is thought to be a means of propitiating the sun and ensuring a period of sunshine; a bonfire lit for the purpose of providing the sun with fire; cf. sun spell n.2Apparently coined by the anthropologist Sir James Frazer, who in his book The Golden Bough (1890) interpreted certain fire festivals and fire rituals as attempts to propitiate or the sun or provide it with fire; see quot. 1890. In later use frequently with reference to Frazer's theory.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > other seasons and feasts > [noun] > to propitiate god of the sun
sun charm1890
sun spell1907
1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iv. 367 We have seen that the primitive Aryans probably kindled the midsummer bonfires as sun-charms, that is, with the intention of supplying the sun with fresh fire.
1897 D. Butler Church & Parish Abernethy v. 79 Dr. Frazer regards the fire-festivals of November and December as sun-charms intended to ensure a proper supply of sunshine.
1911 J. A. MacCulloch Relig. Anc. Celts xviii. 266 The bonfire [at Beltane] was a sun-charm, representing and assisting the sun.
1998 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 30 Dec. 7 The [fireball] ceremony, which coincides more or less exactly with the winter solstice when the sun reaches its lowest elevation, relates to ancient sun charms.
sun circle n. (a) Archaeology a stone circle or timber circle thought to be connected with sun worship; (b) chiefly Archaeology a circular figure, sometimes with arms or spokes radiating outward from the centre (often forming an equilateral cross), thought to be an ancient symbol for the sun; cf. sun cross n., sun wheel n. 3.
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone > circle > specific
hurler1607
pond-barrow1845
sun circle1856
recumbent stone circle1933
1856 Notes & Queries 30 Aug. 179/2 The derivation of Baalbec appears to me to be from the Phœnician Irish Baal-beact, i.e. ‘the sun circle’: as it was no doubt originally one of those vast circular earthen embankments with upright stones and an altar in the centre.
1868 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 23 May 11/1 Primitive sun circles [in Peru], absolutely coinciding with those called Druidical in Northern Europe.
1889 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 13 p. cclxxii The human face, the sun circle, the overshadowing wings, and the intertwined serpent.
1902 A. M. Earle Sun Dials & Roses of Yesterday iii. 81 On old churches mysterious little rayed circles like the face of a sun-dial appear... These are commonly called Saxon dials, and they strongly resemble ‘sun-circles’ found on pre-historic remains.
1946 S. Lockwood & L. Lockwood tr. R. Steiner Anthroposophy & Human Gemüt iii. 42 On the mountain we had climbed we found a large sun-circle and nearby a smaller one.
1994 Gateway Heritage (Missouri Hist. Soc.) Summer 36/1 At Fountain Bluff two petroglyph enthusiasts have reported the presence of large cross-in-a-circle sun circles, thunderbirds or birdmen, weeping eyes,..and other designs.
2013 E. E. Bowne Mound Sites of Anc. South iv. 170 During the first century of Mississippian occupation of the site, the plaza included not only a large pole, but also a circle of smaller posts.., which has been compared with the so-called sun circles of Cahokia.
sun-clad adj. chiefly poetic (a) radiating sunlight, brightly radiant like the sun (also and in earliest use figurative); (b) on which the sun shines, bathed in sunshine.Sense (a) is now rare except in discussions of Milton's use in quot. 1637 and references to the Woman of the Apocalypse described in Revelation 12:1 (cf. quot. 1934). [With sense (a) compare Hellenistic Greek γυνὴ περιβεβλημένη τὸν ἥλιον, lit. ‘a woman with the sun wrapped around her (as clothing)’ (New Testament: Revelation 12:1).]
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > of or relating to sunlight > as bright as the sun
sunnisha1413
sunnyc1500
sun-bright1579
sunshiny1590
sun-like?1593
sunbeamed1598
sunshining1629
sun-clad1637
sunbeamy1821
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > of or relating to sunlight > exposed to or illumined by
repercuss?1440
sunny?1440
sunned1565
sunshiny1600
sun-clad1637
sun-lighted1737
sunlit1784
unshaded1802
sunlight1819
shadeless1837
1637 J. Milton Comus 27 The Sun-clad power of Chastitie.
1772 G. Crabbe in Lady's Mag. Dec. 575/1 The low mansion of his woe Admits no sun clad beam.
1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Skaith sig. Biiij While humbler smiles, in vernal green The sun-clad vale below.
1934 A. C. Gaebelein World Prospects ii. iii. 51 The Sun-clad woman with the crown of twelve stars is Israel.
1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) lxiii. 479 Some sun-clad children scampered under willows overhanging a shallow beach.
2008 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 1 Dec. 11 The sun-clad beaches of Goa.
sun-clear adj. extremely clear (in various senses of clear adj.); (also and in earliest use figurative) highly obvious, plainly evident, totally unambiguous. [In the figurative use perhaps after German sonnenklar plainly evident (18th cent. or earlier; already in Middle High German in lit. sense ‘bright as the sun’); compare Dutch zonneklaar plainly evident (17th cent.; 16th cent. in lit. sense) and also Middle Low German sunnenklār bright as the sun, (of evidence) clearly presented.]
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1847 R. Montgomery Relig. & Poetry 245 All is frank display, That scorns pretence, and scatters each disguise A sun-clear verity.
1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 38 Make the aged eye sun-clear.
1885 Daily News 10 Nov. 7/5 What there is in Royal subjects to paralyze the genius of a painter we fail to to divine, but it is sun-clear that Mr. Haag could no more resist this unfortunate influence than the greater Landseer.
1945 W. de la Mare Burning-glass & Other Poems 36 The grass takes on a shade Of paradisal green, sun-clear.
1985 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 17 Sept. In depicting the seaside her colors are often as technicolor as the brightest, sun-clear day on a Queensland beach.
sun clock n. †(a) a clock constructed to show mean solar time (obsolete rare); (b) a sundial or similar instrument indicating the time of day by means of the shadow of a rod, pillar, etc., cast by the sun on to a marked surface (in early use frequently poetic).
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial
chilindrec1386
dialc1425
sundial1555
clocka1562
cylinder1593
horoscope1623
compass-dial1632
moon dial1664
ring dial1667
heliotrope1669
pole-dial1669
sciatheric1682
spot dial1687
polar dial1688
sun clock1737
meridian ring1839
solarium1842
journey-ring1877
scratch dial1914
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > sun- or moon-clock
sun clock1737
moon-clock1800
1737 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 68/2 [Joseph Williamson's] Clocks, thus framed, would keep Time to Admiration with the Sun, and therefore he called them his Sun-Clocks.
1829 E. Elliott Village Patriarch ix. 148 Thy sun-clock, as of old, is true!
1921 Classical Weekly 17 Oct. 23/1 We have ancient descriptions of sun-clocks, and these clocks are found on many walls and in excavations.
2000 J. Rykwert Seduction of Place (2009) v. 134 The vast sun clock set up by the first emperor, Augustus,..had a tall Egyptian obelisk for a needle.
sun club n. a club for sunbathers; esp. one for naturist sunbathing.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [noun] > nudism or naturism > club for
sun club1936
1936 Sun Bathing Rev. June 43/2 (heading) Non-nudist sun clubs.
1978 Lancs. Life July 31/3 Although Lancashire has four Sun Clubs (naturist terminology for nudist camps), none is on the coast.
2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 29 Aug. 26 The organisation's website boasts 16,000 individual members, 130 sun clubs and 46 beaches designated for nude bathing.
sun-coloured adj. of the colour of the sun or sunlight; (also) coloured by the sun, esp. suntanned.
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1817 Q. Rev. Apr. 34 Our women coming from Licoo have no beauty: their sun-coloured skins are not fine!
1858 Harper's Mag. Jan. 227/2 There were even richer tints abroad in the sun-colored leaves, the lichens, the golden-blossomed furze.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Sun iv. 13 She stood a few steps, erect, in front of the sun-coloured woman.
1968 K. Akula Tomorrow is Yesterday i. 12 The sun-coloured cheeks enhanced her delicate, natural beauty.
2008 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 22 Nov. (Traveller section) 18 There is the ocean. Vivid blue, as clear as liquid glass and framed by sun-coloured sand.
sun compass n. (a) a navigational device, typically resembling a sundial, for finding true north from the observed direction of the sun, allowing for the time of day; (b) a faculty by which an animal can navigate with respect to the position of the sun (frequently attributive).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > device for finding north from sun
sun compass1879
1879 W. J. Shaw Elements Mod. Tactics i. 7 A very simple form of sun compass may here be described which might be useful in the field. It could be made in ten minutes with the aid of a piece of cardboard and a common brass pin.
1925 National Geographic Mag. Nov. 523/2 In clear weather the sun compass enabled us to do accurate navigation... Mr. Albert H. Bumstead..invented it for our trip and I consider it a great contribution to science.
1947 New Biol. 3 14 The sun may be either to the left or to the right of a marching hopper and it appears that the hopper while marching keeps its direction with reference to the sun. That such ‘sun-compass orientation’ exists was proved by ingenious experiments in the field.
1965 J. D. Carthy Behaviour of Arthropods vii. 101 They immediately change their direction so that they are now heading ‘correctly’. They thus show sun-compass behaviour.
1967 J. Grierson Heroes of Polar Skies iv. 65 Byrd..expected to maintain his heading by the sun compass.
1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xxii. 401/1 Juvenile sockeye salmon..have a sun compass that they complement with a magnetic compass at night or during overcast conditions.
2015 A. Ganeri How to Live Like Viking Warrior (2016) 17/2 During the day, use your sun compass (it's like a sundial). The higher the sun, the farther south you are.
sun crack n. a crack produced esp. in soil or rock as a result of shrinkage in sunlight or hot, dry conditions.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fissure or crack
clinta1400
shake1747
grike1781
sun crack1831
mud-crack1853
shrinkage crack1867
1831 Christian Advocate Sept. 467/1 He took a maple plank, or board,..which was in itself very smooth, except that it was full of cracks, like sun cracks.
1848 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 13 348/1 I have invariably found that the drought or sun-cracks (caused by dry summers) have descended from three to four feet in depth.
1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) xix. 266 Many of the beds show suncracks, raindrop pits, ripple marks, and footprints and remains of land reptiles (dinosaurs).
2014 M. R. Dhital Geol. of Nepal Himalaya (2015) iv. 46/2 The interbedded purple, red, and green micaceous shales contain many sun cracks.
sun cream n. chiefly British cream applied to the skin to protect it from ultraviolet rays and prevent sunburn, suntan cream; a product of this type.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [noun] > to protect the skin
sun cream1919
sunscreen1937
after-sun1965
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > cosmetics to promote tanning or prevent burning
sun cream1919
sun oil1937
tanner1969
1919 Chicago Defender 4 Oct. 4/6 (advt.) Sun Cream and Skin Food—For protecting the exposed skin from the sun and wind.
1966 L. Cohen Beautiful Losers i. 91 There is a tube of sun cream in the glove compartment.
1997 New Scientist 20 Dec. 13/3 Farm waste could provide a cheap and plentiful source of ferulic acid, an ingredient of suncreams that blocks harmful ultraviolet light.
2016 Sun (Nexis) 16 Aug. 3 I took what I thought were sensible precautions—wearing sun cream on holiday and avoiding sunbeds—but like so many people, I seldom used sun cream.
sun cross n. chiefly Archaeology a figure consisting of an equilateral cross inside a circle, thought to be an ancient religious or occult symbol for the sun; cf. sun circle n. (b), sun wheel n. 3.
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1886 Lady Alford Needlework as Art x. 337 Probably the first motive of this pattern, which seems to be the same as the Egyptian sun-cross.
1897 Y Cymmrodor 12 94 An Ogam stone with a sun-cross and svastika.
1912 Irish Church Q. 5 45 This Reask cross..is such an excellent illustration of the sun cross of a very early type.
2013 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 5 May (Human Interest section) The sun cross is a cross within a circle, common not only in Neolithic Europe..but also in North America where it symbolised ‘the great medicine wheel of life’.
sun cure n. a treatment or cure involving exposure to the sun.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by fresh air, sunlight, etc. > [noun]
insolation1626
air bath1746
sea-bath1785
sun cure1853
air cure1856
climatotherapy1875
mountain cure1876
heliotherapy1890
climatotherapeutics1896
1853 Daily Scioto (Ohio) Gaz. 23 June This is a case of sun-cure, which I recommend to any one who is anxious to start a new system of healing.
1902 Daily Chron. 8 Dec. 4/5 Sun-cures for all the depression and ill-humours to which English people are supposed to be peculiarly subject.
2007 Guardian (Nexis) 26 June 21 A sun cure costs only €16 a day for the patients at Baerumshjemmet in Altea.
sun-cure v. transitive to cure or preserve (food or tobacco) by exposure to the sun.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)] > dry
pine1560
spit1617
deese1682
jerk1709
charqui1820
sun-cure1885
dehydrate1921
1885 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 3 Jan. Fully half the farmers flue cured their tobacco, the others sun curing it.
1912 Nation 8 June 376/1 All that they did not eat to-day they smoked or sun-cured for to-morrow.
2015 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 16 Nov. (Business section) 5 It sourced green vanilla beans which were sun-cured for up to five months before being processed.
sun-cured adj. (of food or tobacco) cured or preserved by exposure to the sun.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [adjective] > cure or preserve by exposure to the sun
sun-cured1838
1838 Pennsylvania Inquirer & Daily Courier 17 Aug. (advt.) Manufactured Tobacco... Do lbs do part sun cured.
1936 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 41 136/1 Copley..produced portraits of Yankee worthies in his native Boston that are as local and forthright as sun-cured codfish.
2002 I. Wahlberg in P. Winterhalter & R. L. Rouseff Carotenoid-derived Aroma Compounds x. 132 Flue-cured Virginia tobacco and/or sun-cured Greek tobacco.
sun damage n. damage caused by the sun, especially (in later use) with respect to the effects of ultraviolet light on the body.
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1910 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 23 July 11/1 (heading) Millers say several loads [of wheat] yesterday showed traces of sun damage.
1937 Vogue 1 July 79/3 (advt.) Clinical tests show that this new-type cream is remarkably effective against sun-damage to the skin.
1989 Boating Sept. 228/1 (advt.) Marine Grade Window Tint... Protects interior from sun damage, increases security, privacy.
2002 S. Stacey & J. Fairley 21st Cent. Beauty Bible 63/1 Over-the-counter products containing AHAs and BHAs—which brighten by removing the top layers of skin—may make it more liable to sun damage.
sun-damaged adj. damaged by the sun, especially (in later use) with respect to the effects of ultraviolet light on the body.
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1900 Evening News 30 June 4/2 Always ask your lengths of dress-goods cut off before you, or it may prove to be sun-damaged or creased.
1931 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune 10 Sept. 8/3 (advt.) New beauty ideas that will repair wind and sun-damaged skin.
1998 J. Bredenberg Clean it fast, clean it Right 190 Once or twice a year, or for sun-damaged or dried-out wood, apply an oil.
2005 Time 18 July 55/1 (advt.) Those rough, scaly, sun-damaged spots on your head or face called Actinic Keratosis.
† sun-dart n. poetic Obsolete a ray of sunlight represented or imagined as a dart.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > ray of
beamc885
sunbeamOE
sunray1596
fire-glance1662
streamer1697
sunglade1832
sun-darta1835
sun shaft1837
a1835 F. D. Hemans Storm of Delphi in Poet. Wks. (1836) 232/1 And the lightnings in their play Flash'd forth,..Like sun-darts wing'd from the silver bow.
1910 C. Fabbri Five Little Love Songs 4 And we're all in league against you, Bird and flower and gold sun-dart, And the web the spider's spinning Is the mesh to hold your heart.
sun dawn n. frequently poetic dawn, daybreak.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]
aristc825
dawingc900
dayeOE
day-rimOE
day-redOE
mornOE
lightOE
lightingOE
dawning1297
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grekinga1300
uprista1300
dayninga1325
uprisingc1330
sun arisingc1350
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springingc1380
day-springa1382
morrowingc1384
dayingc1400
daylighta1425
upspring1471
aurora1483
sky1515
orienta1522
breaking of the day1523
daybreak1530
day-peep1530
morrow dayc1530
peep of the morning1530
prick of the day?1533
morning1535
day-breaking1565
creek1567
sunup1572
breach of the day1579
break of day or morn1584
peep of day1587
uprise1594
dawna1616
day-dawn1616
peep of dawn1751
strike of day1790
skreigh1802
sunbreak1822
day-daw1823
screech1829
dayclean1835
sun dawn1835
first light1838
morning-red1843
piccaninny sun1846
piccaninny daylightc1860
gloaming1873
glooming1877
sparrow-fart1886
crack1887
sun-spring1900
piccaninny dawn1936
1835 R. Browning Paracelsus i. 6 We paced..the cheerful town At sun-dawn.
1885 A. C. Swinburne Marino Faliero Ded. p. vii One heart whose heat was as the sundawn's fire.
1919 Amer. Printer 20 July 45/1 Sundown—Sundawn. By the change of a letter the printer may turn night into day, darkness into light, old age into youth, listlessness into energy, despair into hope, and sorrow into gladness.
2007 Microbial Ecol. 54 370/1 The Poza Azul stromatolite had a second NA peak from midnight to sun dawn.
sun deck n. (a) a terrace or balcony positioned or designed to receive a lot of sunshine (now chiefly North American); (b) the upper deck of a yacht, cruise ship, etc., esp. when designed or intended for sunbathing.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > balcony
gallery1509
balcony1618
balcon1635
pergolaa1641
gazebo1843
mashrabiyya1850
basket-balcony1866
balconette1876
sun deck1876
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > decks for use of passengers
promenade deck1820
promenade1826
berth-deck1856
sun deck1876
saloon deck1888
shade-deck1894
1876 Liverpool Mercury 22 Feb. A splendid strong Teak (Steamer's) House, with solid panels, framing 2 inches thick, with 25 10-inch brass sidelights, and sun deck of teak.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 130 The captain is on top of the sun deck most of the time.
1910 Craftsman Sept. 697/2 By a peg ladder..you can climb onto the sundeck. This deck is really nothing more than the ‘floored ceiling’ of the closets and bath below.
1950 J. D. MacDonald Brass Cupcake (1955) ii. 15 The apartment has a big bedroom, sun deck, living room.
1991 Toronto Star (Nexis) 28 July e4 You may be able to get out of the path of city street lights from an apartment roof or sun deck.
2013 Daily Tel. 7 Oct. 34/4 (advt.) The vessel has a spacious single-sitting restaurant, three lounge bars, a lecture theatre, library, sun deck..and small boutique.
sun deity n. the sun worshipped or personified as a god or goddess; a god or goddess identified or specially associated with the sun; cf. sun divinity n., sun god n.
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1828 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 15 Antiquities 146 Mithra, the Persian sun deity's name, is derived from a word signifying a rock.
1939 Biblical Archaeologist 2 6 The sun deity is a goddess, Shapash, constantly referred to as ‘the lamp of the gods’.
2007 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 5 May 52 A fine and impressively diademed Indian sandstone sculpture of the celestial sun deity Surya.
sun disc n. (also sun disk) the disc of the sun, esp. as an object of worship; (chiefly in religious symbolism) an image or representation of this, often depicted as having wings.Frequently with reference to the Aten (Aten n.) in ancient Egypt.
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the world > the universe > sun > [noun] > disc, face
visage1390
sun disc1850
1850 Archaeol. Jrnl. 7 120 The sun-disc on his head, and the lunar crescent on his side, would then be emblems of the combination or conjunction of these luminaries to form the epoch.
1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. 54 An attempt..to substitute the exclusive worship of Aten-Ra, the sun-disc, for that of Amun-Râ.
1920 E. B. Havell Handbk. Indian Art iii. i. 203 The Bodhisattva holds in his right hand Vishnu's blue lotus, and his tiara bears the three jewelled sun-discs.
2003 D. Brown Da Vinci Code (2004) lv. 314 The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos of Catholic saints.
sun divinity n. the sun worshipped or personified as a god or goddess; a god or goddess identified or specially associated with the sun; = sun deity n.
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1858 Amer. & Foreign Christian Union Aug. 263/1 The disk, and particularly the circle, were the well-known symbols of the Sun-divinity.
1925 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 29 367 The horned but human heads of Jupiter Ammon, a well-known sun-divinity.
2003 J. Kunnie in J. Reid Relig. & Global Culture viii. 130 It [sc. human sacrifice] was apparently a way of appeasing the sun divinity, where enemies of the Aztec nation were offered as a religious sacrifice.
sundress n. a lightweight dress for hot sunny weather, typically having thin shoulder straps instead of sleeves and often a low-cut neck and back.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > other
gite13..
long dress1731
Jesuit1767
Brunswick1769
overdress1812
fancy dress1826
agbada1852
stone-bluea1855
low-neck1858
Dolly Varden1872
sundress1875
frump1886
harem dress1911
kimono gowna1922
gina-gina1923
dirndl1937
qipao1955
cheongsam1957
sack dress1957
tent dress1957
gomesi1965
minidress1965
poncho dress1968
longuette1970
anarkali1988
suit dress2017
1875 Times 8 Sept. 6/2 Dieppe.—French watering-place of the usual character. Sun-dresses and chatter.
1942 R. Godden Breakfast with Nikolides vi. 138 Her spotted sun-dress, her sun hat and sandals.
2015 J. Nelson I'll give you Sun (U.K. ed.) 141 She's lipstick-free and wearing a colorful sundress that goes to her knees.
sun-dry adj. dried up, parched, or withered by the sun; dried by exposure to the sun as opposed to artificial heat; = sun-dried adj.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > injured by heat or fire > parched > by the sun
sunburnta1586
scorcheda1593
sun-dried1604
sunbaked1628
sun-dry1885
1885 W. B. Yeats in Dublin Univ. Rev. June 110/2 And with a sun-dry weed He wrote it on the sands.
1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) i. ii. 51 The seaports of the sun-dry Levant.
2011 L. Kirschenbaum Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen v. 132 1 cup sun-dry tomatoes, briefly soaked in warm water.
sundust n. particles of dust visible in sunlight; the motes in a sunbeam collectively; cf. sun mote n.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > ray of > motes in
moteeOE
sundust1849
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 373 The particles of golden light, the sun-dust, have..fallen like seeds on the earth.
1964 W. Golding Spire i. 10 Those two men posed so centrally in the sundust.
2014 Mich. Daily (Ann Arbor) (Nexis) 15 Feb. 1 An almost-romance that had blossomed out of that summer we'd spent covered in sundust with hills of grass molding to the dips in our backs.
sun eclipse n. an eclipse of the sun; = solar eclipse n. at solar adj. and n.1 Additions.
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1767 S. Pearse Coelestial Diary (ed. 49) sig. C5 (heading) The Causes of Sun Eclipses.
1915 Forestry Q. Mar. 92 The sun eclipse began at 1:24 P. M.
2007 Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 16 July Sun eclipses are murderous to vision, except at totality.
† sun-extinct adj. poetic Obsolete inwardly dead.Apparently an isolated use.
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1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 92 It is only immoral To be dead-alive, Sun-extinct And busy putting out the sun In other people.
sun-eye n. (also with capital initials) (a name for) the sun imagined or regarded as an eye.
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1896 Watchman 16 Jan. 22/2 Sun-eye shone his brightest for a little while longer, but he was so tired that gradually the big black bank of cloud, which was his eyelid, closed over his golden eye.
1931 C. Day Lewis From Feathers to Iron 23 That golden seed extends Beneath the sun-eye, the father, To ear at the earth's ends.
2004 D. Sprott House of Eagle ii. vii. 80 Here, in this most revered of cities, the good god Ptah, and the Sun-Eye, Hathor-Sekhmet, reigned supreme, but Ptolemy saw none of it.
sunfast adj. (of a dye, fabric, etc.) not liable to fade in sunlight.
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1889 World (N.Y.) 20 Mar. (advt.) Shades made of ‘Sun-fast’ Holland.
1922 Woman's World (Chicago) Nov. 26/1 The curtains matching those in the living room are yellow sunfast, with a blue sunfast binding.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 114/2 (advt.) Lustrous virgin wools tested for durability, dyes that are absolutely sunfast.
2000 Garden Hist. 28 219 While initially working with purchased aniline threads, they soon discovered that the colour was not sunfast.
sun fever n. now rare a fever or febrile condition caused by or attributed to exposure to the sun; spec. (a) sunstroke; †(b) U.S. the viral disease dengue (obsolete).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers
fever hectica1398
emitrichie1398
hectic1398
etisie1527
emphysode fever1547
frenzy-fever1613
purple fever1623
prunella1656
marcid fever1666
remittent1693
feveret1712
rheumatic fever1726
milk fever1739
stationary fever1742
febricula1746
milky fever1747
camp-disease1753
camp-fever1753
sun fever1765
recurrent fever1768
rose fever1782
tooth-fever1788
sensitive fever1794
forest-fever1799
white leg1801
hill-fever1804
Walcheren fever1810
Mediterranean fever1816
malignant1825
relapsing fever1828
rose cold1831
date fever1836
rose catarrh1845
Walcheren ague1847
mountain fever1849
mill fever1850
Malta fever1863
bilge-fever1867
Oroya fever1873
hyperpyrexia1875
famine-fever1876
East Coast fever1881
spirillum fevera1883
kala azar1883
black water1884
febricule1887
urine fever1888
undulant fever1896
rabbit fever1898
rat bite fever1910
Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911
sandfly fever1911
tularaemia1921
sodoku1926
brucellosis1930
Rift Valley fever1931
Zika1952
Lassa fever1970
Marburg1983
1765 J. Entick New Spelling Dict. Calenture, sun-fever.
1843 tr. W. Hauff True Lover's Fortune xxx. 76 In this heat you ought to put a cap on, to keep you from the sun-fever.
1850 New Orleans Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 7 264 In the mean time, cases of solar or sun fever have increased rapidly through the city.
1899 Univ. Med. Mag. (Univ. Pennsylvania) Nov. 95 Sun fever begins with a brief prodromal period, marked by nothing more characteristic than a pronounced feeling of malaise, fulness in the head, and a slight initial pyrexia.
1941 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Aug. 210/2 When he was seen the following day it was decided that he had ‘sun fever’.
† sun figure n. Biology Obsolete rare (in the terminology of W. Waldeyer) a radiating figure seen in an animal cell during division; = aster n. 4(a). [After German Sonnenfigur (W. Waldeyer 1875 or earlier; already in 18th cent. denoting sunlike shapes more generally).]
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > other structures in mitosis
sun figure1877
aster1879
linin1887
skein1889
spireme1889
tetraster1890
cytaster1892
astrosphere1893
mid-body1896
restitution nucleus1927
synaptonemal complex1958
1877 tr. W. Waldeyer in Med. Examiner 12 Apr. 290/1 The nucleus-juice streams out of both poles, like a radiated current, into the adjoining protoplasma; and thus are formed the two sun figures.
1889 tr. W. Waldeyer in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 30 163 Certain peculiar radiating appearances in the protoplasm are seen..—stars, ‘asters’, or ‘sunfigures’. Cell-division then follows.
sun filter n. (a) something such as a blind for a window or a solar filter for a telescope which prevents all or most of the sun's light from passing through; (b) a substance that helps to protect the skin from ultraviolet rays and prevent sunburn, esp. as used as an active ingredient of a sunscreen.
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1921 Arts & Decoration May 53/1 (advt.) Vudor Shades are attractive sun filters—taking the glare and heat away, yet leaving the cool sun-flecked shadow as inviting as that in a vine-covered arbor.
1979 P. Niesewand Member of Club vi. 40 The sun filter curtains were..green, yellow and orange stripes.
1990 Country Living Aug. 133/1 Multi-protective day cream, with UVA and UVB sun filters.
1996 Green Bk. Beauty Catal. 29/1 Ideal for use before you go on holiday or for prolonging your tan when you come back. (Contains no sun filters.)
2016 Paisley Daily Express (Nexis) 11 May (Features section) 6 Special sun filters on the observatory's Grubb telescope helped them witness the rare occurrence.
sun finger n. Palmistry (also with capital initial(s)) the ring finger; = finger of (the) sun at Phrases 4d(a).
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1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 111 Lines from the root of the Sun-finger, verging to the mount of ☿, denotes diseases of the reins.
1889 Globe 12 Apr. 6/1 The chief characteristic of the hand is the abnormal length of the ring or Sun finger.
1897 Planets & People Apr. 134/1 In shaking hands with a person, observe that the ring, or sun finger, strikes naturally upon the mount of Venus.
1966 Astrol. Mag. Apr. 395/1 The Mercury finger is depressed but long, entering the nail-phalange of the Sun finger.
1998 G. S. Birla Love in Palm of your Hand 81/1 If the finger is straight (not twisted) and the lines and signs of wisdom are present on the mount, the long Sun finger indicates a growing attunement with your spiritual self.
sun flag n. (also with capital initial(s)) (a name for) the national flag of Japan, comprising a simple red disc on a white field; cf. rising sun flag n. at rising sun n. Compounds. [Perhaps after Japanese Nisshōki, lit. ‘sun emblem flag’ and Hinomaru, short for a phrase with the lit. sense ‘sun circle flag’ (see rising sun flag n. at rising sun n. Compounds).]
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society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > flags of other specific nations
Red Ensign1828
Southern Cross1855
sun flag1882
Eureka flag1896
Vierkleur1900
Blue Ensign1919
1882 St. Nicholas Sept. 850/1 You are probably familiar with the round, red sun-flag of Japan.
1948 D. G. Wayman Bite Bullet x. 141 An oblong of pure white silk with a crimson circle in the center, the Japanese Sun flag.
2011 H. Cho & P. J. Katzenstein in J. Snyder Relig. & Internat. Relations Theory vii. 177 The raising of the sun flag (hinomaru) at school ceremonies.
sun flash n. a flash of sunlight; (also) a pattern or design resembling this; cf. sunburst n.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > burst or spell of
sunshine1590
sun blast1622
summer-blenk1637
summer blink1641
sunburst?1815
sunbreak1826
sun flash1834
1834 Daily Atlas (Boston) 14 Oct. 1/5 His was the high and weeping soul, O'er nature widely cast; On cloud, on cataract, on rock, The sun-flash and the blast.
1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 272/1 Sun flash horse brass, a face piece, extremely popular in Kent,..originally a disc of latten..with its centre hand-raised into a high dome or boss and encircled with a wide, flat rim.
2001 J. C. Work Ride West to Dawn xvii. 254 Maybe it [sc. the horse] was spooked by the sun flash, or maybe by the silence.
sun fly n. (a) any of various hoverflies (family Syrphidae), esp. Helophilus pendulus, which has black and yellow stripes on the thorax and abdomen, and is commonly found in Europe near wetlands and bodies of water; (b) Angling (also with capital initial(s)) a kind of artificial fly used in bright weather.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of
moor flylOE
drake-flya1450
dub-flya1450
dun cut1496
dun fly1496
louper1496
red fly1616
moorish fly1635
palmer1653
palmer fly1653
red hackle1653
red palmer1653
shell-fly1653
orange fly1662
blackfly1669
dun1676
dun hackle1676
hackle1676
mayfly1676
peacock fly1676
thorn-tree fly1676
turkey-fly1676
violet-fly1676
whirling dun1676
badger fly1681
greenfly1686
moorish brown1689
prime dun1696
sandfly1700
grey midge1724
whirling blue1747
dun drake?1758
death drake1766
hackle fly1786
badger1787
blue1787
brown-fly1787
camel-brown1787
spinner1787
midge1799
night-fly1799
thorn-fly1799
turkey1799
withy-fly1799
grayling fly1811
sun fly1820
cock-a-bondy1835
brown moth1837
bunting-lark fly1837
governor1837
water-hen hackle1837
Waterloo fly1837
coachman1839
soldier palmer1839
blue jay1843
red tag1850
canary1855
white-tip1856
spider1857
bumble1859
doctor1860
ibis1863
Jock Scott1866
eagle1867
highlander1867
jay1867
John Scott1867
judge1867
parson1867
priest1867
snow-fly1867
Jack Scott1874
Alexandra1875
silver doctor1875
Alexandra fly1882
grackle1894
grizzly queen1894
heckle-fly1897
Zulu1898
thunder and lightning1910
streamer1919
Devon1924
peacock1950
1820 Sporting Mag. Jan. 202/1 My father left ten thousand pounds, And will'd it all to me; My friends, like sun-flies, flock'd around, as kind as kind could be.
1884 Fishing Gaz. 14 June 277/2 (heading) The Dee Sun-Fly.
1891 Hardwick's Sci. Gossip June 129/1 The species of this family [sc. Syrphidæ] are..popularly known as drone flies or sun-flies, from their habit of hovering in the sun over flowers.
1914 A. E. Gathorne-Hardy My Happy Hunting Grounds vii. 115 I remember one special fly for bright weather known as the ‘Sun Fly’, with nearly the whole of the wing made of golden pheasant topping.
1968 Oxf. Bk. Insects 132/1 Sun-fly (Helophilus pendulus). A very abundant fly, frequenting damp and marshy places.
2009 Western Mail (Nexis) 25 Aug. 8 When a novice angler accompanied me one day, I was surprised to realise he could not pick up the sun fly in the rough water.
sun force n. frequently historical energy emanating from the sun in the form of heat, light, etc.; (also) a mechanical force or other influence ascribed to the sun.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > solar radiation > [noun]
sun power1853
sun force1857
solar power1915
irradiance1956
solar1976
1857 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 5 74 All the physical powers which man wields as movers or transformers of matter are modifications of sun-force.
1859 A. Caswell in Ann. Rep. Board Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1858 (35th Congr., 2nd Sess: U.S. Senate Misc. Doc.) 107 Hence he [sc. Kepler] was obliged, on this hypothesis, to make the sun-force propel a planet in a direction perpendicular to the radius- vector.
1913 A. W. Andrews Text-bk. Geogr. 41 It has been proved that where the humidity is high..only a small proportion of the direct sun-force reaches the surface.
1970 F. F. Centore Robert Hooke’s Contributions to Mech. v. 93 Unlike Kepler, Borelli did not demand a constant application of sun-force but, instead, allowed for the possibility of a cumulative force so that each impulse remained impressed upon the body.
1984 E. Collier in M. Evans Black Women Writers (1985) 505 The sun is a beneficent force, radiating comfort... Often the sun force is implied in the many agrarian images of growing grain or seeds planted with the expectation of fulfillment.
sun furnace n. [in sense (a) after classical Latin hēliocamīnus ( < Hellenistic Greek ἡλιοκάμινος)] (a) Roman History a south-facing room with glass or mica windows, designed to trap heat (somewhat rare); (b) an apparatus designed to produce intense heating by concentrating the sun's rays using mirrors, etc.; = solar furnace n. at solar adj. and n.1 Compounds 3.The furnace referred to in quot. 1893 was never completed.
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the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > miscellaneous apparatus
bain1477
speculum1650
filtering paper1651
wheel-fire1662
filter paper1670
sun furnace1763
respirator1789
candle-ball1794
rectifier1822
candle-bomb1823
filter1823
oxyhydrogen blowpipe1823
shade1837
graduator1839
pipette1839
thistle funnel1849
pressure tube1852
ozonizer1858
dialyser1861
Liebig condenser1861
Sprengel pump1866
Sprengel tube1866
water softener1867
mercury pump1869
Bunsen burner1870
dialysator1877
test-mixer1877
tube-condenser1877
Kipp1879
reflux condenser1880
policeman1888
converter1889
pressure boiler1891
spot plate1896
hydrogen electrode1898
sampler1902
reactor1903
fume-chamber1905
Permutit1910
microburner1911
salt bridge1915
precipitator1919
Raschig ring1920
microneedle1921
titrator1928
laboratory coatc1936
spray tower1937
precipitron1938
ion exchanger1941
potentiostat1942
chemostat1950
Knudsen pipette1951
pH-stat1956
cryopump1958
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > burning mirror > sun furnace
sun furnace1763
1763 A. Sutherland Attempts Antient Med. Doctr. I. 49 Pliny the younger tells us that the antients made use of Helio-caminæ, or Sun-furnaces, for private sweating, Vaporaries contrived so as to concentrate the rays of the sun.
1893 Industries & Iron 8 Sept. 390/1 Sir Henry Bessemer has thirty acres of ground at Denmark Hill..I must devote more than a passing word to..a remarkable structure called the Sun Furnace. This is an erection which was possibly well nigh revolutionising the world, let alone the science of metallurgy.
1949 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Feb. 17/3 A sun furnace which..can concentrate the temperature of the sun's surface on a space about three inches in diameter.
2008 B. Dumaine Plot to save Planet viii. 183 The Romans added glass or mica to windows in their south-facing rooms to trap more heat, creating what they called a sun furnace.
2009 M. A. Zahran & A. J. Willis Vegetation of Egypt (ed. 2) ix. 341 In addition to desalination of sea water and pumping of ground water, solar energy could be used to produce electric power, operation of sun furnaces etc.
† sun gate down n. [ < sun n.1 + gate-down at gate n.2 6c] Obsolete the setting of the sun, sunset.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset
sunsetOE
settle-gangc1000
evensongc1330
sun going downa1382
setc1386
decline14..
sun restc1405
sun gate down1440
sunsetting1440
sun sitting?a1475
falling1555
sunsetting1575
downsetting1582
sunfall1582
declining1588
sun go down1595
tramontation1599
vail1609
daylight gate1613
sundown1620
set of day1623
dayset1633
day shutting1673
sky setting1683
sun-under1865
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 484 Sunne settynge, or sunne gate downe.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 805/2 At the sonne gate downe, sur le soleil couchant.
sun-gazing adj. that gazes at the sun.
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1600 Heroicall Aduentures Knight of Sea xii. 127 Like the sun-gazing Indian, Oceander was so amazed.
1841 Pennsylvania Inquirer & Daily Courier 11 Feb. 1/7 With storm-daring pinion and sun gazing eye, the gray forest eagle is king of the sky.
1999 Times 24 July 11 (caption) Sun-gazing women on an English beach.
sun-gazing n. (originally and frequently attributive) the action of gazing at or observing the sun.
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1847 Dublin Univ. Mag. Dec. 716 After the sun-gazing business is over..take a plunge in the..cold bath.
1913 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Nov. 58/2 After the eclipse of 1912 the Ophthalmological Society of Copenhagen instituted inquiries as to the extent of injuries to the eye incurred from sun-gazing.
1999 Guardian 2 June i. 11/2 New data from..the European sun-gazing satellite Soho..has revealed a series of microflares just above the surface.
2013 D. Wolfe Longevity Now 315 When I'm doing my sungazing..I practice qigong.
sun gear n. Mechanics the central gear of an epicyclic or planetary gearing, around which a planet gear revolves; = sun wheel n. 2b; cf. sun-and-planet adj.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > with axis rotating around another > sun
sun wheel1800
sun gear1864
1864 Amer. Artisan 13 July 80/2 Each revolution of the planet gear gives two to the fly-wheel shaft on which the sun gear is secured.
1935 R. Trautschold Standard Gear Bk. xi. 173 The relative speed of the driven internal gear in terms of the speed of the driving sun gears.
2010 W. L. Cleghorn Mech. Machines (Internat. ed.) vi. 216 It [sc. a planetary gear train] consists of a sun gear, having N1 teeth, a concentric ring gear, having N4 teeth, and planet gears.
sunglade n. (a) a glade in a forest that receives a lot of sunshine; (b) a patch or stretch of sunlight reflected on the surface of water (cf. moonglade n. at moon n.1 Compounds 2); (also) a shaft of sunlight, a sunbeam.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > ray of
beamc885
sunbeamOE
sunray1596
fire-glance1662
streamer1697
sunglade1832
sun-darta1835
sun shaft1837
1832 Bristol Mercury 30 June I left the shade Where the hill-stream flows, For the hot sun-glade Where thy palm-leaves rose.
1849 H. Melville Mardi I. xxxix. 152 He would not be able to perceive us, owing to our being in what mariners denominate the sun-glade, or that part of the ocean upon which the sun's rays flash with peculiar intensity.
1876 Forest & Stream 13 July 368/2 The..mosquitoes hovered, like flies in a sun-glade.
1906 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 394/1 The sun-glade was glittering and twinkling on the water.
1923 Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. 32 116 The Broad Way of Tane is the gleaming sun glade, the path laid down by Tane for the souls of his descendants to traverse, to lead them on across vast ocean spaces.
1985 M. S. Lacy tr. M. Martinson Women & Appletrees 130 Mårbo is in the middle of the big forest's broadest sunglade, and the springs come early up here.
sun go down adv. and n. (a) adv. †(apparently) until sunset (obsolete); (b) n. the time at which the sun sets, sunset (chiefly regional and now rare).
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset
sunsetOE
settle-gangc1000
evensongc1330
sun going downa1382
setc1386
decline14..
sun restc1405
sun gate down1440
sunsetting1440
sun sitting?a1475
falling1555
sunsetting1575
downsetting1582
sunfall1582
declining1588
sun go down1595
tramontation1599
vail1609
daylight gate1613
sundown1620
set of day1623
dayset1633
day shutting1673
sky setting1683
sun-under1865
1595 T. Edwards Narcissus in Cephalus & Procris sig. G2v Talke Sun-go downe.
1715 A. Pennecuik Curious Coll. Scotish Poems in Geogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale App. 4 For we that live within this Town, Our Sight grows Dim, by Sun go Down.
2014 S. Daugherty Double Doll iii. 180 Bertha weaves after sun go down, that's why she gots so many troubles.
sun going down n. (a) the time at which the sun sets, sunset (now rare); (b) †the region or direction in which the sun sets, the west (obsolete). [With sense (b) compare Occident n. Compare also sun arising n.]
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset
sunsetOE
settle-gangc1000
evensongc1330
sun going downa1382
setc1386
decline14..
sun restc1405
sun gate down1440
sunsetting1440
sun sitting?a1475
falling1555
sunsetting1575
downsetting1582
sunfall1582
declining1588
sun go down1595
tramontation1599
vail1609
daylight gate1613
sundown1620
set of day1623
dayset1633
day shutting1673
sky setting1683
sun-under1865
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) Judges xix. 9 Behold þat þe dai is more bowid to þe sunne goyng down [L. ad occasum] & neyȝeth to þe euyn.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xii. 54 Whanne ȝe schulen se a cloude rysinge fro the sunne goynge doun [L. ab occasu], anon ȝe seyn, Reyn cometh.
c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 139 (MED) Grete was the feste, the iustes, and the dissportes, and lasted to the sonne goyng doune.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 129 (MED) He slew huge Pepill in the red more of athy, a litil afore the Sone goynge downe.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 272/2 Sonne goyng downe, le soleil couchant.
1680 Lex Londinensis 217 That no Peter-man whatsoever..shall fleet for Flounders with any Rugge-net in the night time, from Sun going down until day light the next morning.
1971 M. Cowley Let. 20 Dec. in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 379 And tell dear Muriel how greatly I miss those sun-going-down hours.
sun-golden adj. of a warm golden colour resembling that of the sun or sunlight; (also) coloured or tinged gold by the sun; cf. sun gold adj., sun-goldened adj. at Compounds 4b(b).
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1877 London Reader 17 Nov. 52/2 When summer glows with a sun-golden glare.
1900 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 Nov. 797/2 Maisie was tall and slight like a reed, with an eager face in a ring of sun-golden hair.
1936 B. Billings Rider of Dim Trails vii. 84 San Salvador, with its background of majestic mountains and the sun-golden, moon-silvered desert for a front yard.
2002 ‘J. L. Clark’ Body & Soul ii. 66 The sun-golden curvaceous forms of the Chorus: tanned laconic lovelies turning cartwheels in the twilight.
2011 Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 21 Sept. (Lifestyle & Leisure section) A rootle in the refrigerator yields the last quarter of winter-harvested butternut, sweet and sun-golden.
sungrazer n. Astronomy a comet whose orbit passes close to the sun.
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the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > comet > [noun]
faxed stareOE
cometOE
blazing starc1503
besom1566
crinital star1580
blazera1635
Dog Star1727
sword-star1852
sungrazer1887
cometesimal1964
1887 Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 1886–7 47 304 These elements..prove conclusively that the comet belongs to the family of ‘Sun-grazers’.
1965 Observer 17 Oct. 13/4 One theory has suggested that this group of ‘sun-grazers’ may have been formed in the wake of the sun after it passed through a cosmic dust cloud.
2013 Winnipeg Free Press 4 Dec. (Entertainment section) D2/4 The elusive comet ISON, a sungrazer set to slingshot around the sun.
sungrazing adj. Astronomy (of a comet or its orbit) passing close to the sun.
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the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > comet > [adjective]
cometary1619
cometical1665
cometic1668
sungrazing1882
1882 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 634 (heading) Has the sun-grazing comet already affected the earth?
1988 P. Cloud Oasis in Space ii. 40/1 Icy objects from the Öpik-Oort cloud are episodically deflected into hairpin-shaped, sun-grazing orbit by passing massive objects as they and our solar system orbit the galaxy.
2008 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 366 1746 We..see two sungrazing comets approach the Sun early in the sequence.
sun groat n. historical a type of silver groat issued in Ireland in 1467 (during the reign of Edward IV), having a portrait of the king on one side and a design consisting of a rose superimposed on a sun with 24 rays on the reverse.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > Irish coins > [noun]
harp1543
harp-groat1543
harped groata1549
rose pence1556
smulkinc1571
harp-shilling1591
harper1598
patrick1673
thirteenc1720
fourpence-halfpenny1723
thirteener1762
tenpenny1822
thirteen-penny1828
sun groat1861
twenty-pence piece1981
1861 Gentleman's Mag. May 532 (note) In the Irish coinage of Edward IV, there are groats with the sun and rose in centre, which were called sun-groats.
1967 Ulster Jrnl. Archaeol. 30 91 The ‘sun groats’ with a portrait must surely be the ‘doubles’..that are firmly linked with 1467.
sun gun n. (also with capital initials) a portable incandescent lamp.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > incandescent lamp > specific types of
Nernst lamp1898
turn-down1909
sun gun1960
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > lights
sun arc1889
sunlight1928
photoflood1933
scoop1940
sun gun1960
1960 N.Y. Times 18 Sept. 24/4 A single flood lamp in a new unit, the Sun Gun, introduced by Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
1976 Listener 12 Feb. 171/2 By shooting a gun numerous times and flashing a sun-gun, we persuaded hordes of bats to fly round the cave.
2001 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 8561/1 The resulting solution was..reduced by shining visible light from a commercial sun gun.
† sun half n. Scottish Obsolete that side of an area or piece of land which faces the south; = sunny half n. at sunny adj. Compounds 3.
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [noun] > part or place
southdealeOE
south halfeOE
southlandOE
south endlOE
southdalec1175
south sidec1325
southa1382
Auster1535
sun half1565
sunny quarter1574
south-away1893
the world > space > direction > [noun] > aspect or direction faced > part having specific aspect > specific facing south
sunny half1532
sun half1565
sunny quarter1574
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand > side facing specific direction > side facing sun
sun sidec1400
sunny side?1440
sunny half1532
sun half1565
1565 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1886) IV. 583/1 Dimedietatem terrarum de Westir Gurdie vocat. the sone half.
1615 in J. Davidson Inverurie & Earldom of Garioch (1878) vi. 198 Possessors..of the sun half of the Cruik, finding themselves to have the better part,..granted..to the shaddow half of the said Cruik ane piece of land, to make the shaddow half so good as the sun half.
sun hat n. a hat, typically having a broad brim, worn to protect the head and neck from the sun.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > broad-brimmed > sun-hat
sun hat1842
sun helmet1858
sunshade1868
1842 Ladies' Garland Jan. 156/1 No one passed her, dressed in her neat but worn sun-hat and cape.
1953 Motor Boating Aug. 12/1 We bought fishing tackle and rods and reels, sunglasses, sunhats, and slacks.
2006 Mother & Baby Aug. 85/3 Get your tot into the habit of wearing a sun hat at all times.
sun-hatted adj. wearing a sun hat.
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1894 Amer. Tyler 13 Oct. 827/1 A group of sun-hatted..tourists nervously clinging to the saddles of their patient donkeys.
1967 Times 16 June 9/3 The sun shone more brightly, shedding oppressive heat over the orderly gardens, where sun-hatted patients drowsed in deck-chairs.
2012 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 1 Apr. (Sport section) 13 At 11 am, under a grey sky, a sun-hatted umpire turned towards the 1880s pavilion.., signalled to the scorers, then shouted ‘play’.
sun heat n. (a) the heat of the sun; (b) sunstroke (rare).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > sunstroke or heatstroke
sun heatOE
calenture1593
insolation1758
coup de soleil1772
sunstroke1787
star-stroke1837
touch of the sun1867
thermoplegia1909
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > heat of the sun
sun heatOE
sun-hot1871
OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Tiber. A.iii) (2009) xi. 94 Se wæta..byþ þurh þære sunnhætan [OE Cambr. Gg.3.28 þære sunnan hætan]..to ferscum wæterum awend.
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 2v The payn of the head commeth somtime of his oune disease, somtime of other membres, as of the stomake: somtime of outward accidentes, as of beating, falling or sunheat.
1659 S. Rutherford Infl. Life of Grace iv. iv. 410 If nature intend that rain and Sun-heat shall make the rocks bring forth wheat.
1789 J. Abercrombie Hot-house Gardener 165 Exceedingly cold weather, and no sun heat.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist iii. iii. 489 When the air of the frame is at a high temperature from sun-heat.
1904 New Hebrides Mag. Apr. 10 Cases..of slight sun-stroke, or sun-heat.
2016 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 24 Apr. With an intention to give students relief from the sizzling sun heat, the State Government has declared holiday for the students.
sun helmet n. a helmet made of cork or a similar material, worn in tropical climates; cf. pith helmet n. at pith n. Compounds 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > broad-brimmed > sun-hat
sun hat1842
sun helmet1858
sunshade1868
1858 Athenæum 13 Feb. 213/3 A tall stern officer in a white sun-helmet, in red coat, sash, and splashed boots.
1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 3 Up came a British full private of the gallant West Kent..with..a sun-helmet, and a red jacket.
1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes (1985) 307 A collector of hats, boots, and guns, Bumpy had velvet berets, plastic sun helmets, country gentlemen's tweed caps, Australian Army field hats, white-hunter hats with leopard-patterned bands [etc.].
2014 Sunday Times (Nexis) 27 June (News Review) A junior officer under the Raj who failed to wear his sun helmet outdoors would be confined to barracks for 14 days.
sun-helmeted adj. wearing a sun helmet.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a hat > types of
flat-headed1667
straw-hattedc1730
beavered1742
cocked-hatted1821
slouch-hatted1826
high-hatted1858
plug-hatted1869
sun-helmeted1886
pot-hatted1888
sou'-westered1891
cowboy-hatted1896
sombreroed1899
top hat1902
picture-hatted1906
bowler-hatted1909
sailor-hatted1909
tile-hatted1924
Stetsoned1935
trilbied1966
trilby-hatted1975
1886 E. Arnold India Revisited 186 Next were camped the Seaforth Highlanders, kilted and sun-helmeted.
1940 Life 30 Dec. 7/2 The column of sun-helmeted soldiers scuffing the sand across the cover is part of the British Army of the Middle East.
2005 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Oct. 40/2 We see..a smiling, sun-helmeted white official on a jungle trail.
sun horse n. (chiefly in classical, Norse, and Hindu mythology) a horse which is said to carry the sun across the sky or draw it in a chariot (see sense 1b); cf. sun chariot n.
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1830 Fraser's Mag. May 410/2 Schiller also, at times, has confounded a sun-horse and thunder-horse with the horse of the Muses.
1898 Westm. Rev. May 513 The worship of the sun-horse.
1950 Folk-lore 61 34 St. George represents the Christianised sun-horse.
2003 G. Hausman & L. Hausman Mythology of Horses 8 The European horse soldier was enchanted by Arabian myths, and he subscribed easily to the myth of the sun horse.
sun-induced adj. induced by the sun, esp. with reference to disease or the harmful effects of ultraviolet light on the body.
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1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xii. 203 The morbid phenomena in this class of sun-induced disease are attributable..to a peculiar physical action of the direct rays of the sun on the tissues.
1957 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. 21 The rocket located the absorbing region..and found out that the region above it was unaffected by the sun-induced phenomenon that caused the blackout [of radio signals].
1986 Jrnl. Royal Coll. Physicians 20 118/1 As..holidays in the Mediterranean sun become ever cheaper, it is important to know how to reduce the risk of sun-induced skin cancer.
1996 M. Symington in M. Borgerhoff Mulder & W. Logsdon I've been gone far too Long 219 I donned my safari hat and sunscreen and entered a sun-induced stupor.
2003 D. J. Goldberg & E. M. Herriot Secrets of Great Skin (2004) iii. 36 Her face is a patchwork of wrinkles covered with numerous blotchy brown spots—clearly a case of sun-induced aging run amok.
sun kiln n. now historical a vat in which clay is exposed to the sun and the air in order to prepare it for use in pottery.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > vessels for exposing clay to sun or air
sun pond1708
sun pan1724
sun kiln1829
1829 Aiken in S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries iv. 98 The fluid mass is next poured into a sieve, thro' which it runs into the largest vat, or Sun Kiln, until the whole surface is covered..which is left to be evaporated by solar action.
1903 Burlington Mag. June 64/1 The great towns were then represented by a few moorland hamlets, the teeming factories by occasional ‘hovels’ and ‘sun-kilns’, and the armies of workmen by the solitary potter.
2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Jan. 20 In the sun kilns of Bagnall and Penkhull, local artisans started to glaze their earthenware and develop a reputation for craftsmanship.
sun kink n. North American (on a railway) a deformation in a rail caused by high temperatures; the condition of having such deformations.
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1884 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 16 July 5/1 A train on a Canadian railroad had been derailed by a ‘sun kink in the track’.
1913 Amer. Federationist Feb. 126 The specific defects..are broken and spread rails, soft track, bad ties, sun kink, and irregular track.
1954 G. A. Lathrop Little Engines & Big Men xxvii. 317 I hit a sun kink one day, making about forty miles an hour. We were on it before we saw it.
2007 B. Seranella Deadman's Switch 135 There was a danger of sun kinks, although a mile-long freight train passed by there an hour earlier.
sunlamp n. [originally after French lampe soleil (1880 or earlier)] (a) an electric lamp designed to emit light resembling natural sunlight, or to emit ultraviolet light (now usually for the purpose of suntanning) (also attributive); (b) a powerful lamp with a parabolic reflector which is used in film production (now rare); cf. sunlight n. 2b.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > sun-lamp
sunlamp1880
1880 Iron 1 Oct. 257/3 One of the authors stated that the paper was written before he became acquainted with the ‘sun-lamp’ of MM. Clère [sic] et Bureau.
1930 Sel. Gloss. Motion Picture Technician (Acad. Motion Pictures, Hollywood) 31/2 Sun Lamps, a large lamp (Sun Arc or Sun Spot) reflecting its light by means of a parabolic mirror.
1931 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 149/3 (advt.) It is these same beneficial ultra-violet rays that are approximated so closely in the new G-E Sunlamp.
1935 Jrnl. Soc. Motion Picture Engineers Mar. 202 The sunlamp manufacturers then agreed to classify the various lamps into 6 divisions.
1957 C. MacInnes City of Spades ii. v. 141 You're getting so pale... You must have some sun-lamp treatment.
1986 R. H. Biggs & P. G. Webb in R. C. Worrest & M. M. Caldwell Stratospheric Ozone Reduction 304 The three levels of UV-B radiation enhancement plus a control, were obtained by using Westinghouse FS40 sunlamps suspended above the growing plants so that irradiances would simulate calculated levels for Gainesville, Florida.
2016 Independent (Nexis) 29 Mar. 44 So begins a riveting tale of a Friday night out in a northern town, the obligatory session under the sun lamp followed by drink, drugs, male banter and the quest for sex.
sun-lamped adj. (of a person or part of the body) tanned or browned by exposure to a sun lamp; (of a tan) obtained using a sun lamp.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [adjective] > of or relating to a sun lamp
sun-lamped1957
1957 Commentary 24 447/2 Mr. Hopper turned his sun-lamped head back to his desk.
1968 S. Yurick Bag iii. 96 A good part of the industry was there, those clean-shaven and sun-lamped men.
1976 ‘Trevanian’ Main (1977) xi. 219 There is a lighter tone to his sun-lamped bronze around the ears, indicating that his haircut is fresh.
2006 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 22 Jan. Shirts shall not be allowed to touch my sun-lamped body.
sunland n. (originally) †land that receives a lot of sunshine (obsolete); (subsequently) a country, region, or place with a sunny climate.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > in relation to climate or weather conditions > specific
temperate zone1556
horse latitudes1777
sunland1827
iceland1842
pole of cold1850
storm-area1853
cloud-belt1860
cloud-ring1860
snow-belt1874
taiga1888
storm-zone1889
storm-belt1891
cold pole1909
icebox1909
1827 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 19 Mar. Comprising about eight acres of sun land, together with 21 acres of excellent Meadow and Pasture adjoining.
1861 F. A. Paley Æschylus' Choephori (ed. 2) 365 (note) The Hyperboreans, a race supposed to have inhabited the mild sun-lands beyond the regions from which the north wind blows.
1900 J. London In Far Country in Son of Wolf 89 The sunlands of the West and the spicelands of the East.
2014 C. Wiman Once in West 60 Phoenix, for instance, Palm Springs, or some other sunland where mortals go to die.
sun leaf n. [apparently after German Sonnenblatt (1880 or earlier)] a leaf which has grown under conditions of high light intensity; contrasted with shade leaf.Sun leaves are typically smaller, thicker, and hairier than shade leaves, and have more veins and stomata.
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1890 Ann. Bot. 4 150 Variations in development of palisade-parenchyma according to the degree of exposure, as in the sun-leaves and shade-leaves of the Beech.
1942 New Phytologist 41 214 A sun leaf was exposed for 4 days to light periods of 16 hr. per day.
2005 E. H. Williams Nature Handbk. ii. 36 Leaves near the tops of trees are exposed to more sunlight and greater wind, so these sun leaves are smaller.., thicker, and hairier.
† sun-leister v. Scottish Obsolete intransitive to catch salmon by sunning (sunning n. 3); cf. leister v.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > [noun] > for salmon > manner of
wastering1580
black-fishing1794
sunning1843
burning1844
sun-leister1847
1847 T. T. Stoddart Angler's Compan. 253 A party who were sun-leistering or spearing from a boat.
sun line n. (a) Palmistry (also with capital initial(s)) a line starting at the base of the ring finger and extending towards the base of the palm; = line of (the) sun at Phrases 4d(b); (b) a line used in the alignment of a portable sundial. [With sense (a) compare post-classical Latin via solis (1649 or earlier).]
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > palmistry > [noun] > mark on the hand > other lines
line of the livera1440
sister1558
headline1571
liver line1571
discriminal1652
heart line1652
line of (the) sun1653
natural line1653
sun line1653
dragon's tail1678
fate-line1889
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > parts of
pinOE
gnomon1546
style1577
cock1585
hour-line1593
substyle1593
index1594
noon-line1596
incliner1638
substylara1652
substylar linea1652
staff1669
nodus1678
node1704
stylus1796
noon-mark1842
sun line1877
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 68 The lines which issue from the Sun-line, and go to the Table-line, signifie Children.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 161/1 Draw the sun-line at the top of the card.
1895 Arena (Boston) July 337 The sun line rises in plain of Mars (centre of palm) and runs up to the Mount of the Sun (below base of third finger).
1969 F. W. Cousins Sundials 171 Draw the sun-line at the top of the card parallel to the line ACB.
1998 G. S. Birla Love in Palm of your Hand 84/2 Although fortunate, as reflected by the presence of a Sun line, her indecision is also seen by the fact that she has too many Sun lines.
sun lotion n. chiefly British lotion applied to the skin to protect it from ultraviolet rays and prevent sunburn, suntan lotion; a product of this type.
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1932 N.Y. Times 22 May 17/2 (advt.) Antiseptic Sun Lotion.
1967 H. Pinter Tea Party 49 You're off to Spain... What sun lotion do you use, Lois?
2004 Red Oct. 213/1 Sun lotions can make make-up slip.
sun maiden n. chiefly Mythology a maiden associated or identified with the sun or the sun-god; spec. the sun personified as a maiden.
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1870 R. C. Jebb tr. Juvenal Satires v, in tr. Theophrastus Θεοφραστου Χαρακτηρες 194 In Virro's own hands are beakers on which the tears of the Sun-maidens [L. Heliadum] have stiffened, and saucers embossed with beryl.
1877 Academy 29 Sept. 312/2 One bright day a man saw a Daughter of the Sun sitting at the foot of a crag, and..seized her... He built a hut, carefully closing every aperture, in obedience to the Sun-maiden's orders.
1887 J. M'Clintock & J. Strong Cycl. Biblical, Theol., & Eccl. Lit. Suppl. II. 770/2 When the cruel Pizarro came to Peru..the beautiful daughters of the Incas, the virtuous sun-maidens, became a prey to the insolent warriors.
1895 J. F. Hewitt Ruling Races Prehist. Times II. vii. 11 The marriage of the moon-god Soma to the sun-maiden.
1932 Jrnl. Eng. Folk Dance & Song Soc. 1 67 The woman in both folk-dramas representing the imprisoned sun-maiden.
2005 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 11 Dec. (Travel section) 2 The Latvians had a ritual before that involving the rebirth of the sun maiden, and some of the activities reflect the ancient rite.
sun man n. †(a) a man who worships the sun, a sun worshipper (obsolete); (b) (also with capital initials) (the name of) the sun personified as a male being. [In quot. 1613 reflecting a patristic interpretation of Byzantine Greek Σαμψαῖοι , the name of a religious group in Persia (see Sampsaean n. and the discussion at that entry).
In later use after Navajo Jóhonaa’éí Hastiin ( < jóhonaa’éí sun + hastiin man).]
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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. viii. 127 And in worshipping of the Sunne, whereof they were called the Sampsæans, or Sunners, Sun-men, as Epiphanius interpreteth that name.
1882 Trans. Anthropol. Soc. Washington 1 85 This woman went then to a great ocean in the West, where she still lives; and she and the sun-man are the deities which are reverenced by the Navajos.
1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage vii. 272/1 Sun-Man..existed but had little impact on the affairs of men.
2006 Wicazo Sa Rev. 21 118 Sun Man, the father of the clouds, must restore cosmic balance by winning back the stormclouds.
sun mote n. (chiefly in plural) a particle of dust visible in sunlight; a mote in a sunbeam; cf. sundust n.
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1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 96 Cabalisticall coiners, and impostural wringers, making at their own pleasure..bodies of Atomes, or sun motes, something of nothing.
a1628 F. Greville Mustapha ii. Chorus in Certaine Wks. (1633) 116 A play of Sunne-motes from mans small World come.
1799 A. Donoughue Ess. Passions 46 Tho' born where beauties thick as sun-motes glow'd, To fair Almena's charms alone he bow'd.
1842 Court Mag. Dec. 267 A sun-mote playing in the further distance, reflected on the floor and ceiling.
1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 96 The sun-motes where the mosses drowse.
2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 July v. 11 The air is scented with pine and lighted with sun motes playing in spider webs.
sun motor n. now chiefly historical a machine which converts solar energy to another form of energy, such as electrical or mechanical energy.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > motor > [noun] > others
gas motor1855
sun motor1864
servo motor1872
telemotor1880
power pack1937
linear motor1957
1864 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 30 Dec. 111/1 Sun Motor.—The other day a means of cooking by the aid of the sun, was proposed by M. Babinet, of the French Institute.
1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Mar. 252/1 The Sun-Motor. Our illustration gives a general view of the machine constructed by Captain J. Ericsson of New York, for utilising the sun's heat in producing mechanical power.
1952 ‘J. Wyndham’ in ‘E. Crispin’ Best SF (1955) 79 The main batteries charged by the sun-motor.
1987 U.S. Patent 4,682,582 2 The sun motor converts solar energy into rotary motion.
sun mount n. Palmistry (also with capital initial(s)) the mount (mount n.1 5) at the base of the ring finger; = mount of (the) sun at Phrases 4d(c).
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1968 H. C. Sastri Jewel of Palmistry (ed. 2) iii. 35 If the colour of the Sun mount looks blackish and there are many parallel lines running towards the mounts of Mercury and Saturn, the person has to pass through many worried days in his life.
1975 Astrol. Mag. Apr. 336/2 For good figures on the Sun Mount, Jupiter Mount and Mercury Mount and Venus Mount lift the native.
1998 G. S. Birla Love in Palm of your Hand 87/1 The island on Jonathan's Sun mount reflects a blockage that isolates him from his own loving nature.
sun myth n. a myth relating to the sun; spec. one ascribing the sun's course or attributes to a particular god or hero, a solar myth.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > a mythical story or myth > type of
creation story1860
creation myth1863
sun myth1865
solar myth1870
nature myth1871
just-so story1897
monomyth1929
FOAF1989
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind xii. 354 St. George, the favourite mediæval bearer of the great Sun-myth.
1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man ii. ii. 224 He was a sun-myth or a corn-myth, or any other kind of myth that is also a monomania.
2011 Sci. News 179 30/3 The author traces efforts to understand Earth's nearest star, from ancient Egyptian sun myths to a modern-day Antarctic observatory.
sun oil n. (a) (chiefly British) oil applied to the skin to protect it from ultraviolet rays and prevent sunburn, suntan oil; a product of this type; (b) = sunflower oil n. at sunflower n. Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > vegetable oil or margarine
palm oil1625
vegetable oil1651
butter of mace1694
Negro-oil1753
sunflower oil1768
Galam butter1782
vegetable butter1790
vegetable fat1797
winter oil1811
butter substitute1834
red palm oil1836
butter oil1844
shea butter1847
palm butter1848
vegetable lard1859
palm-kernel oil1863
butterine1866
margarine1873
oleomargarine1873
bosch1879
oleo1884
oleo oil1884
vegetable shortening1892
Nucoline1894
almond butter1895
nut butter1896
Nutter1906
marge1919
Maggie Ann1931
sun oil1937
vanaspati1949
maggie1971
canola oil1982
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > other plant-derived oils
oil de baya1398
oil roseta1400
alkitranc1400
laurinec1400
oil of spicac1400
seed oil1400
rape oil1420
nut-oil?c1425
masticine?1440
oil de rose?1440
oil of myrtine?a1450
gingellya1544
rose oil1552
alchitrean1562
oil of spike1577
oil of ben1594
myrtle oil1601
sesamus1601
sampsuchine1616
oil of walnuts1622
rape1641
oil of rhodium1649
rapeseed oil1652
neroli1676
oil of mace1681
spirit of scurvy-grass1682
beech-oil1716
poppy oil1737
castor oil1746
oil of sassafras1753
orange-peel oil1757
wood-oil1759
bergamot1766
sunflower oil1768
Russia oil1773
oil castor1779
tung-yu1788
poppy-seed oil1799
cocoa butter1801
sassafras oil1801
phulwara1805
oil of wine1807
grass oil1827
oil of marjoram1829
cajuput oil1832
essence of mustarda1834
picamar1835
spurge oil1836
oenanthic ether1837
tea oil1837
capnomor1838
cinnamon-oil1838
oil of mustard1838
orange-flower oil1838
resinein1841
mustard oil1844
myrrhol1845
styrol1845
oenanthol1847
shea butter1847
wintergreen1847
gaultheria oil1848
ginger-grass oil.1849
nutmeg oil1849
pine oil1849
peppermint oil1850
cocoa fat1851
orange oil1853
neem oil1856
poonga oil1857
xanthoxylene1857
crab-oil1858
illupi oil1858
Shanghai oil1861
stand oil1862
mustard-seed oil1863
carap oilc1865
cocum butter or oilc1865
Kurung oil1866
muduga oil1866
pichurim oil1866
serpolet1866
sumbul oil1868
sesame oil1870
niger oil1872
summer yellow1872
olibene1873
patchouli oil1875
pilocarpene1876
styrolene1881
tung oil1881
becuiba tallow1884
soy oil1884
tea-seed oil1884
eucalyptus1885
sage oil1888
hop-oil1889
cotton-seed oil1891
lemon oil1896
palmarosa oil1897
illipe butter1904
hydnocarpus oil1905
tung1911
niger seed oil1917
sun oil1937
vanaspati1949
fennel oil-
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > cosmetics to promote tanning or prevent burning
sun cream1919
sun oil1937
tanner1969
1937 Sci. News Let. 7 Aug. 95/2 CU's tests of sun oils, lotions, and creams disclosed only one that gave complete protection.
1968 Financial Times 2 Oct. 2/2 The earlier recovery was caused largely by Russia and Rumania withdrawing as sellers of sun oil.
1981 Sci. Amer. Feb. 62/3 The production of ‘sunoil’ amounted to 5.6 million tons in 1979–80.
2006 Lush Times Spring 7/5 Brazilian beach babes rub on sun oil, then scrub themselves with sand to exfoliate.
sun opal n. a variety of opal showing red or yellow internal reflections; (also) a stone of this; cf. fire opal n. at fire n. and int. Compounds 2a. [Compare earlier girasol n. 2.]
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > opal > [noun] > varieties of
girasol1588
oculus mundi1661
eye of the world1730
hydrophane1784
cacholong1791
pitchstone1794
pyrophane1794
semi-opal1794
fire opal1811
sun opal1818
isopyre1827
alumocalcite1832
jasper-opal1843
opal jasper1848
resin opal1850
pitch opal1861
jasp-opal1868
opal-agate1868
harlequin1873
harlequin opal1887
wax-opal1896
potch1897
pinfire1902
moss opal1904
nobby1919
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > amorphous quartz or opal > others
girasol1588
oculus mundi1661
hydrophane1784
cacholong1791
pitchstone1794
pyrophane1794
semi-opal1794
wood-stone1794
fire opal1811
wood-opal1816
sun opal1818
isopyre1827
jasper-opal1843
opal jasper1848
resin opal1850
natural glass1853
pitch opal1861
vitrite1866
jasp-opal1868
opal-agate1868
pearl opal1872
harlequin1873
harlequin opal1887
wax-opal1896
potch1897
moss opal1904
nobby1919
1818 London Lit. Gaz. 17 Oct. 665/3 The Opals are imbedded in Perulam earth, and are accompanied by all the other varieties of Opal, but particularly with the sky-blue Girasol and the Sun-opal of Sonnenschmidt.
1902 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1901 32 67 It is a fire-opal, or ‘sun-opal’, carved with the head of the Mexican sun-god, and is believed to have been taken from a temple.
1997 A. W. Eckert World of Opals vi. 183 Sun opal, a flexible term that can signify honey opal, Mexican fire opal, or a type of amber common opal that occasionally shows flashing color.
sun pain n. U.S. (now rare and chiefly historical) headache that is attributed to or exacerbated by light; spec. migraine.
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1792 T. Jefferson Notes 10 Apr. in Papers (1997) XXVII. 824 Recipe for the head-ach called the Sun-pain. 6. grains of Calomel taken at night.
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Hemicrania, pain, confined to one half the head. It is almost always of an intermittent character;—at times, continuing only as long as the sun is above the horizon; and hence sometimes called Sun pain.
1905 C. E. Woodruff Effects Trop. Light vi. 85 One form of the periodic headache called migraine is so often due to excessive light that it was once called sun pain.
1947 V. Randolph Ozark Superstitions vii. 135 What the hillman calls ‘sun pain’ is a terrible headache which lasts all day but doesn't keep the patient awake at night.
sun painting n. now chiefly historical (an early term for) (a) photography; (b) a photograph.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun] > printing > types of
sun painting1839
sun-printing1853
surface process1865
contact printing1876
silver-printing1878
pigment printing1879
bromide printing1885
printing out1889
screen process1890
gaslight printing1899
projection printing1923
1839 John Bull 10 Feb. 61/3 (advt.) Introduction. Sun-painting. Art in Germany. The Artists of Belgium [etc.].
1857 Lit. Gaz. 7 Feb. 139/3 It is in pure art alone..that the sun-painting exhibits its greatest successes, and these in departments precisely analogous to the main divisions of painting.
1876 C. M. Yonge Three Brides I. ix. 142 The likeness of a young man..where the hard verities of sun-painting had refused to veil the haggard trace of early dissipation.
1971 Country Life 8 July 104/1 In the 1840s, before artists reacted violently against the threat posed by the new so-called sun paintings.
2007 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 1 Sept. The first Canadian article about photography, which focused on Talbot's ‘sun painting’.
sun pan n. now chiefly historical a shallow vessel or depression in the ground in which a substance is exposed to the sun, as in the extraction of salt from brine by evaporation, or the preparation of clay for use in pottery.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > vessels for exposing clay to sun or air
sun pond1708
sun pan1724
sun kiln1829
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > equipment
pail1481
walling-lead1611
walma1661
Neptune1662
loot1669
ship1669
clearerc1682
cribc1682
barrow1686
hovel1686
leach-trough1686
salt-pan1708
sun pond1708
sun pan1724
scrape-pan1746
taplin1748
drab1753
room1809
thorn house1853
thorn-wall1853
fore-heater1880
pike1884
trunk1885
1724 Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 353 The Sea Water is let into their feeding Ponds,..from hence is conveyed into small square Pans, and..from these..into larger Pans,..which they call Brine, or Sun Pans.
1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 449/2 The materials for coarse pottery are prepared by a very rude..method. The place is technically named a sun pan.
1990 C. Thurlow China Clay 22 During the first century or so of china clay production, the second stage, thickening, took place in shallow tanks called sun pans.
sun panel n. (a) an ornamental panel, esp. of stone, bearing a design depicting the sun with rays radiating from it, esp. one set into the face of a pediment or forming part of a cornice (now somewhat rare); (b) a panel that uses the energy of the sun's rays to generate electricity (using solar cells) or to heat water; = solar panel n. at solar adj. and n.1 Compounds 3.
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1884 Carpentry & Building July 138/2 (caption) Cornice with semicircular sun panels in the frieze.
1898 Irish World & Amer. Industr. Liberator 8 Jan. 3/3 The pedestal will have rolled mouldings and sun panels on lower side.
1910 Metal Worker, Plumber & Steam Fitter 14 May 662/2 Gable pediment with sun panel.
1973 Progress-Bull. (Pomona, Calif.) 19 May 1/1 (heading) Repair of Skylab sun panels set... NASA officials said the first Skylab crew may try to free one of two jammed solar cell wings and more than double the crippled space station's electrical supply.
1974 AIA Jrnl. Aug. 46/2 Each sun panel picks up the heat to warm water for heating a unit and supplying hot water for domestic use.
1988 C. L. Boiles & F. Horcasitas tr. M. Léon-Portillo Time & reality in Thought of Maya (ed. 2) iv. 57 The earth monster, located in the lower level of the Sun panel.
2013 Times (Nexis) 27 Sept. (Business section) 56 Despite the emergence of turbines, sun panels and woodburners, coal remains king as the go-to source of British electricity.
sun path n. a path followed or traced by the sun, or formed by sunlight (chiefly and in earliest use figurative); (now chiefly) spec. the course of the sun's apparent movement across the sky, esp. in a particular part of the world or at a particular time of year.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > circle of celestial sphere > [noun] > great circle > ecliptic
ecliptic linea1387
sun path1599
ecliptic1625
ecliptic circlea1679
ecliptic way1712
1599 E. Ford Parismenos xvi. sig. Q3 In the sun-path of sweete delight.
1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 167 The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth.
1876 W. Morris tr. Virgil Æneids vi. 796 Beyond the stars,..Beyond the sun-path lies the land, where Atlas heaven upbears.
1916 Condor 18 110 Over the gray sea a deep glittering sun path led to a sunset sky that grew and ripened to rich purples.
1980 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 16 Apr. A sun path diagram indicates the path of the sun across the sky throughout the year and the length and position of the sun's shadow at any date and time of the year.
2017 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 27 July (Business section) 25 The glass itself is a dynamic and intelligent electrochromic glass that tints in response to the sun path.
sun picture n. now chiefly historical (an early term for) a photograph.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun]
photograph1839
sun picture1839
light picture1846
photogene1851
photogram1857
photo1860
photographeme1864
photie1931
1839 Milwaukee (Wisconsin Territory) Sentinel 4 June (headline) Sun Pictures, or the Daguerrotype.
1856 ‘G. Eliot’ in Westm. Rev. July 55 The delicate accuracy of a sun-picture.
1963 Montana 13 5/1 Lavish in his distribution of illustrated geology books, prodigious purveyor of sun pictures, impresario of the parlour stereopticon.
2016 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 May (Mag.) 60 In 1843 Rock House's then proprietor..set up a home studio..to utilise the newly invented calotype photographic process, producing what came to be known as ‘sun pictures’.
sun pillar n. a column of reflected light appearing to extend upwards from the sun in certain atmospheric conditions.
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the world > the universe > sun > solar activity > [noun] > solar prominence
streamer1697
solar prominence1852
sun pillar1853
filamenta1869
solar protuberance1869
plume1885
panache1886
1853 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 6 79 I am told that the sun pillar was again very beautiful before sunrise next morning.
1902 Times 10 Mar. 15/1 At 6.25 p.m., a very brilliant but narrow sun pillar appeared, extending from a bank of clouds..to about 35°.
2007 Guardian 22 Feb. 39/4 Diamond dust causes unusual optical effects including large haloes around the sun. It also gives rise to sun pillars and light pillars, vertical columns of light hanging in the air.
sun pipe n. Architecture (a proprietary name for) a tube with a highly reflective interior, used to channel sunlight into a space that lacks natural light, typically installed with one end opening on the roof of a building and the other in the ceiling of a room below.
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1993 Delta Democrat Times (Greenville, Mississippi) 12 Oct. b1/1 (headline) Sunpipe could be answer to dark kitchen.
2011 D. Thorpe Solar Technol. ii. 60 Light tubes or sun pipes can transport natural daylight from roofs to rooms that do not have direct access to good natural light.
sun plane n. now chiefly historical a plane with a curved stock used by coopers for levelling the ends of the staves at the top and bottom of a barrel or cask.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > other planes
rabat1440
long plane1665
strike-block1678
mitre plane1688
straight block1812
ice plane1823
side fillister1841
upright1842
scraping-plane1846
sun plane1846
beading plane1858
bead-plane1858
fluting-plane1864
panel plane1873
badger plane1874
shooting-plane1875
whisk1875
block planea1884
scraper-plane1895
chariot plane1909
shoulder plane1935
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 488 The ends of the staves have been levelled by a tool called a sun plane.
1965 E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen ii. 22/2 Then the cooper trimmed off the too long ones with his hand adz and smoothed all of the ends with a sun plane, curved sideways to do the job.
2004 S. Nagyszalanczy Tools, Rare & Ingenious 55 (caption) Also known as leveling or topping planes, curved-bodied sun planes were often used by coopers to shave level the ends of an assembled barrel's staves.
† sun pond n. Obsolete (perhaps) a shallow vessel or depression in the ground in which a substance is exposed to the sun; = sun pan n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > vessels for exposing clay to sun or air
sun pond1708
sun pan1724
sun kiln1829
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > equipment
pail1481
walling-lead1611
walma1661
Neptune1662
loot1669
ship1669
clearerc1682
cribc1682
barrow1686
hovel1686
leach-trough1686
salt-pan1708
sun pond1708
sun pan1724
scrape-pan1746
taplin1748
drab1753
room1809
thorn house1853
thorn-wall1853
fore-heater1880
pike1884
trunk1885
1708 London Gaz. No. 4453/3 Large Store-Ponds, and Sun-Ponds for making of Brine.
sun-powered adj. using power generated by harnessing the energy of the sun's rays; = solar-powered adj. at solar adj. and n.1 Compounds 2.
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1929 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 2 Oct. 1/3 Sun-powered automobiles and airplanes are possibilities of the future.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 Aug. (Final ed.) d7 The company has since designed sun-powered buildings in 9 states.
2016 Evening Standard (Nexis) 3 May 26 The sun-powered plane Solar Impulse—which is trying to fly around the world—has completed the first leg of its journey across the continental USA.
sun power n. (a) energy emanating from the sun in the form of heat, light, etc.; (now chiefly) power generated by harnessing this energy, solar power; (b) the relative intrinsic brightness of a star compared to that of the sun; a unit of intrinsic brightness equal to that of the sun. [In sense (b) after candle power n. at candle n. Compounds 2.]
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the world > the universe > star > star-matter > [noun] > brightness
brightness1674
absolute brightness1832
sun power1853
luminosity1906
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > solar radiation > [noun]
sun power1853
sun force1857
solar power1915
irradiance1956
solar1976
1853 Morning Chron. 31 Aug. We fear that, with so much rain, and so great a deficiency of sun power..the crop will come down.
1905 T. E. Heath in Knowl. & Sci. News 2 57/1 We are accustomed to think of gas and electric lights as being of so many candle-power each. I have therefore drawn the stars of different shapes, which distinguish how many Sun-powers each star is.
1935 Pop. Mech. Apr. 518/1 The device which makes the sun power available to the motor is a super-sensitive photo-electric cell which converts ordinary sunlight into electricity.
1999 I. Nicolson Unfolding our Universe ix. 137/1 Deneb, in Cygnus, has an absolute magnitude of −7. 3, corresponding to a luminosity of about 70,000 Sun-power.
2006 N.Y. Mag. 13 Mar. 40/1 Any drop in oil below $30 a barrel, the price where sun power seems to lose viability.
sun print n. a photographic print made by a process involving direct exposure of the plate to sunlight; cf. sun-printing n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by process
tithonograph1842
platinotype1844
daguerreotype1849
crystallotype1852
catalysotype1853
black print1855
sun print1855
blueprint1857
ferrotype1857
tin-type1864
pyro-photograph1869
opalotype1873
gelatine picture1875
hellenotype1875
panotype1875
silver print1878
autophotograph1880
platinum print1881
bromide print1885
solar1889
solar print1889
shadowgraph1896
skiagraph1896
rotograph1899
autochrome1902
rayogram1932
reduction print1933
photogram1934
blow-up1945
Polaroid1953
opaque1959
bromide1967
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [verb (transitive)] > print > types of printing
overprint1853
sun print1855
underprintc1865
to print out1882
to print down1923
to print in1929
1855 Jrnl. Photogr. Soc. 21 Dec. 271/1 Developed prints on albumen stand far better than the same upon plain paper; and even the albuminized ‘sun prints’ are less injured by the permanganate than the best of the negative prints prepared without albumen.
1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War viii. 78 A large sunprint on view at headquarters suspected many enemy mine-shafts.
2009 S. Stein Fabric Art Projects 88 Collect orphan quilt blocks, small sun prints and screen prints,..etc., that coordinate in theme, color or mood.
sun-printed adj. printed by means of sunlight; made by sun-printing.In quot. 1849 figurative.
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1849 H. Martineau Hist. Eng. during 30 Years' Peace I. 340 His private journal had been taken... Once brought to light, the very light seemed to catch it up, and to present it, sun-printed, before all eyes that were vigilant for human liberties.
1853 Yearbk. Facts in Sci. & Art 219 The title is borne out by the fact, that the title-page itself, as well as the preface, is sun-printed.
1916 Rural New-Yorker 23 Dec. 1561/1 ‘Sun Printed’ Apples. I have seen at fruit shows, specimens of apples with names or letters ‘printed’ on them, evidently by the sun.
2006 H. Brackmann Surface Designer's Handbk. xv. 112/2 A second design layer can be applied to previously sun-printed fabric that has dried for at least 24 hours.
sun-printing n. the action or process of making a photographic print by a process involving direct exposure of the plate to sunlight.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun] > printing > types of
sun painting1839
sun-printing1853
surface process1865
contact printing1876
silver-printing1878
pigment printing1879
bromide printing1885
printing out1889
screen process1890
gaslight printing1899
projection printing1923
1853 Daily News 8 Oct. From this ‘negative’..when adopted by a skilful manipulator ‘positives’ (exact fac-similes of the note itself) might be multiplied by means of sun-printing to any extent.
1925 Geogr. Jrnl. 66 161 In order to facilitate the reproduction of maps in Khartoum, the survey has adopted the Douglas method of sun-printing on to zinc plates.
2016 Independent (Nexis) 3 Apr. 62 The artists in the Sheridan Sydney Design Studio have used watercolour painting, sun printing, line drawings and etchings for the Painted by Hand line.
sun protection factor n. a numerical measure of the effectiveness of a sunscreen or similar product for protection of the skin, notionally representing the ratio of the amounts of ultraviolet light required to cause sunburn with and without the product; (also) a sunscreen or similar product; abbreviated SPF.A higher SPF indicates a greater degree of protection.
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1968 Jrnl. Soc. Cosmetic Chemists 19 785 The mean sun protection factor..is considered the most important criterion for the evaluation of sun screens.
1978 Chem. Week 5 July 19/1 At the heart of the FDA monograph will be the Sun Protection Factor (SPF) system. Under the system, each sunscreen product will be labeled with an SPF code number that indicates its protective capabilities.
1990 Essentials Sept. 30/3 Slather on the sunscreen, making sure you choose the appropriate Sun Protection Factor for your skin type.
2001 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 12 Nov. 47 All the products also contain sun protection factor and the cream lipsticks contain the highest SPF of any such item currently available.
2010 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 4 Nov. 17 Sunscreens with a sun protection factor of 50+ are set to appear on the shelves at the end of next year.
sunquake n. Astronomy a disturbance of the body of the sun comparable to an earthquake.rare before late 20th cent.
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the world > the universe > sun > solar activity > [noun] > sun-quake
sunquake1791
1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 29 Notes If..the planets were originally thrown out of the sun by larger sun-quakes.
1976 Sci. News 21 Aug. 115/1 (table) Sunquakes.
1988 J. Trefil Dark Side of Universe xi. 157 Since we believe we know the composition of the sun, we ought to be able to predict the properties of these ‘sunquake’ waves.
2009 G. Sparrow Destination the Sun 27/1 SOHO is made to..measure the rise and fall of the Sun's surface as sunquakes ripple through it.
sun-red adj. (a) of a vivid red colour resembling that of the rising or setting sun; (b) reddened by the sun, spec. (of a person or part of the body) sunburnt; cf. sun-reddened n. at Compounds 4b(b).Sense (b) overlaps with, and is sometimes difficult to distinguish from, sense (a).
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1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 176 The sun-red blushes of beauty.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers ix. 232 The back of his neck was sun-red when he bent down.
1922 J. Abbott Red-Robin iv. 50 A mite of a girl with a halo of sun-red hair smiled at him in a very friendly fashion.
1939 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 25 162 The pollen parent of the third cross was a dilute sun-red plant..with yellow endosperm.
1973 Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun News 13 Apr. 6/4 (advt.) Navy or sun red shirt-jacket with split-side detail.
1988 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 May (Final ed.) w37 At night there's soft, flattering candlelight, just right to play up a tan or make the best of a sun-red nose.
1993 Plant Cell 5 1808/1 These data indicate that the recessive sun-red pl alleles are not null, but that instead, they synthesize functional mRNA and protein.
2009 A. McGrath Satan's Kingdom 159 His harrowed sun-red face.
sun rest n. now rare the time at which the sun sets, sunset.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset
sunsetOE
settle-gangc1000
evensongc1330
sun going downa1382
setc1386
decline14..
sun restc1405
sun gate down1440
sunsetting1440
sun sitting?a1475
falling1555
sunsetting1575
downsetting1582
sunfall1582
declining1588
sun go down1595
tramontation1599
vail1609
daylight gate1613
sundown1620
set of day1623
dayset1633
day shutting1673
sky setting1683
sun-under1865
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 930 This shal be doon to morwe er sonne reste.
c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 260 They were bounden to kepe the sabboth day, fro the sonne rest of the day bifore vnto the sonne rest of the self day.
c1475 St. Patrick's Purgatory (Yale Beinecke 365) in L. T. Smith Common-place Bk. 15th Cent. (1886) 89 Sweche was hys lyght... As yt ys in wentyr at the sunne rest.
1862 W. W. Lloyd Hist. Sicily i. i. 24 Scene of sun-rest and sunrise.
1865 Peterson's Mag. Dec. 424/1 Why dost thou moan, oh! wind of the West, Like the saddened plaints of the soul's sunrest.
2008 ‘R. Alexander’ Romanov Bride xxvii. 156 Where once I had found joy in merriments that lasted until dawn, now at sunrest I found complete and utter peace there on my knees and at prayer before an icon.
sunround n. originally U.S. (somewhat rare) (a) a unit of time based on the sun's apparent movement across the sky; a day; (b) a unit of time based on a planet's orbit around a sun; a year.Now chiefly in science fiction or fantasy contexts.
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1924 A. J. Small Frozen Gold i. 39 I can generally get on their trail inside a sunround.
1946 P. Wheeler Wonder Tales of Hawaii 52 I love thee more each sun-round.
1955 J. R. R. Tolkien Return of King App. D. 385 In Middle-earth the Eldar also observed a short period or solar year, called a coranar or ‘sun-round’.
1988 D. Duane Star Trek: Spock's World 140 A sunround went by: two. And in the middle of the second sunround, the Mother went to sleep one morning and did not awaken again.
2005 M. Davidson Really Unusual Bad Boys xii. 121 A sunround is many, many sunrounds, as many sunrounds as it takes to get through Time of Sowing, Time of Growth, Time of Reaping, Time of Sleeping. But for the sun to climb into the sky and then fall down, that is just a sunround.
sun salutation n. [after Sanskrit sūryanamaskāra surya namaskar n.] Yoga (also with capital initials) a particular series of poses, typically twelve, performed in a continuous flowing sequence and intended to improve the strength and flexibility of the muscles; an instance of performing this series of poses.
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1965 J. Stearn Yoga, Youth, & Reincarnation 328 Those who have not yet arrived at the Sun Salutation may select one of the initial limbering exercises instead.
1976 Statesville (N. Carolina) Record & Landmark 7 June 17/4 (caption) Members of advanced yoga class go through the various steps of the sun salutation.
2011 Evening Standard (Nexis) 31 Aug. In each class the series of postures will vary, but always includes rapid and repeated sun salutations.
sun scorch n. †(a) drying or superficial burning (of wood, skin, etc.) by the sun (obsolete rare); (b) browning of the edges of leaves in a plant experiencing water stress (= leaf scorch n. at leaf n.1 Compounds 2); (also) sun scald, esp. of trees.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > exposure to injurious heat or fire > of the sun
insolation1758
sun scorch1860
1860 G. W. Thornbury in All Year Round 17 Mar. 491/1 The caïque..is lined inside with clean-shaved planks of plane-tree, grey with perpetual sun-scorch.
1907 W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xix. 208 With her hair shaken out and only the least little shade of sun-scorch from long exposure on the inexhaustible sands.
1916 Jrnl. N.Y. Bot. Garden 17 177 ‘Sun-scorch’, a term given to designate the burning of foliage, generally occurs in summer during periods when the soil is dry, and also is common to evergreens during warm windy days in spring before the frost is out of the grounds.
1917 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 4 503 Sun-scorch is usually confined to trees that have not yet reached the rough-bark age.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 5/2 Do not place them [sc. unripe tomatoes] at a window exposed to strong sunlight, as this will induce sun scorch and render the skin tough.
2016 Times (Nexis) 23 July (Weekend section) 20 Try to choose a west-facing aspect so that the emerging flower buds are protected from frost damage or early morning sun scorch.
sun shaft n. a shaft of sunlight, a sunbeam; also figurative.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > ray of
beamc885
sunbeamOE
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fire-glance1662
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sun-darta1835
sun shaft1837
1837 World of Fashion Oct. 240 See the young lips part, As that fond flower's which smileth too, If e'er it clasps unto it heart The Sun-shaft come from afar to woe.
1908 W. Churchill Mr. Crewe's Career xiii. 191 He had but to beckon a shining Pegasus from out a sun-shaft in the sky.
1941 E. Blunden Thomas Hardy iv. 67 The secret of that apparent indifference was his lifelong purpose..of striking for truth under the intense sunshafts of philosophic poetry.
2013 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 10 Mar. (Lifestyle section) As the arc of a double rainbow swept across the sky, sun shafts emerged from looming clouds, illuminating the town down below with streaks of gold.
sun-shaped adj. having or incorporating the shape of a stylized representation of the sun and its rays.
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1837 W. Jenks Comprehensive Comm. Holy Bible: Psalm LXIV–Malachi 323 Schroeder makes shebes, to be like the Arabic shemes, (pronounced shebes for shebisheh, a little sun) a sun-shaped bulla, hung to a necklace.
1924 Times 1 Jan. 10/4 Dancers in classic costumes, wearing sun-shaped head-dresses of different colours.
2000 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 15 Mar. 26 On the Ashby Canal, the coltsfoot, with its yellow, sun-shaped flowers, is much in evidence.
sun shelter n. shelter from the sun; (later chiefly) a shelter affording protection from the sun.
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1866 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 16 May Churches are windowless and furnish sun-shelter for flocks of sheep.
1882 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis II. xl. 183 Around us were a number of sun-shelters, a couple of stakes in the earth supporting a cross pole, from which depended a rude mat of plaited rush.
1978 F. Osman in S. Auerbach & J. A. Rivaldo Creative Centers & Homes x. 154 The sand play area should provide some sun shelter.
2017 Lynn News (Nexis) 1 June Families enjoyed the sunshine and the money raised will be used to purchase a sun shelter and some new resources for children to enjoy in the outdoor area.
sun-shooter n. Nautical slang (now rare) a person who ascertains the altitude of the sun using a sextant or other navigational instrument in order to determine the latitude of his or her ship; (later more generally) a navigator; cf. to shoot (also take) the sun at Phrases 2c(a).
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > helmsman or pilot > skilled pilot or navigator > who takes observations of sun
sun-shooter1599
1599 E. Wright Certaine Errors Navigation Pref. to Rdr. sig. ¶¶4 Them that obserued the Sunne or starres for finding the latitude, they would call sun-shooters, and starre shooters, and aske if they had hit it.
1886 Tinsley's Mag. Oct. 373 The group of sunshooters on the quarter-deck.
1923 Motor Boating Aug. 110/2 Another time, if anybody has the temerity to take me along as sun-shooter, I shall probably be among those who strike to south'ard and fetch up to windward of Bermuda.
1940 Yachting May 86/2 When you make your landfall..don't relax and let your shipmates pat you on the back and tell you what a fine sun-shooter you are.
sun shower n. a light shower of rain while the sun is shining.
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1801 J. Stoddart Remarks Local Scenery & Manners Scotl. I. ix. 286 The views of Kilchurn..are very fine:..brilliantly tinted by the sun-showers, with the prismatic colours of the rainbow.
1949 Princeton Alumni Weekly 25 Mar. 17/1 Nothing but sunshine except for one five-minute sun-shower.
2015 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 21 Nov. (Traveller section) 30 A brief sun shower passes over, ending in a burst of sunlight that floods the valley below with a flaming gold light.
sun-shy adj. that avoids or spends little time in the sun, or receives little sunshine; spec. (of a person or part of the body) pale, untanned. [In quot. 1894 after German sonnenscheu (of conspiracy) that avoids the sun (1804 in the passage explained by the note).]
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1894 R. W. Deering in tr. F. Schiller Wilhelm Tell 203 (note) Sonnen-scheu, lit. ‘sun-shy’.
1906 J. Payne tr. T. Gautier in Flowers of France I. 134 Jessamines with petals pearly-white And Belles-de-nuit sun-shy, that open but at night.
a1973 J. R. R. Tolkien Silmarillion (1977) xvi. 135 What errand have you, Dark Elf, in my lands? An urgent matter, perhaps, that keeps one so sun-shy abroad by day.
2011 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 16 May (Features section) 24 This two-tone peach-tinted bronzer, with a hint of golden-brown, gave a natural glow to my fair sun-shy skin.
sun side n. the side of a place or object which receives or tends to receive the most sunlight; (formerly also) †the side of a fruit exposed most to the sun while ripening (obsolete); = sunny side n. 1.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand > side facing specific direction > side facing sun
sun sidec1400
sunny side?1440
sunny half1532
sun half1565
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xix. l. 64 Tho þat sitten in þe sonne-syde [a1425 Cambr. Ff.5.35 summe] sonner aren rype.
?1563 Craft Graffing & Planting Trees sig. B. i.v Chose thy graffe on the sunne side of the tree that beareth it.
1719 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Arbuckle 116 My ain house..stands on Edinburgh's street, the sun-side.
1852 ‘Nightlark’ Meanderings Mem. I. 128 And Sun-side Alps all tortuously slip.
2005 M. Strelow Greening of Ben Brown 146 She..had sowed garlic and chives on the sun side of her shack.
sun sign n. (a) chiefly Archaeology a figure thought to be an ancient symbol for the sun; cf. sun circle n. (b), sun cross n., sun wheel n. 3; (b) Astrology (also with capital initial(s)) the sign of the zodiac through which the sun is passing when a person is born, used in determining his or her horoscope; a person's birth sign; cf. star sign n. 2.Sense (b) is now the usual sense. [In sense (a) probably after Danish soltegn (late 19th cent. in archaeological contexts).]
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > others
Samian letter1616
A1651
Tetragrammaton1656
arrow1744
arrowhead1832
wind1847
scarlet letter1850
sun wheel1865
sacred axe1866
rising sun1868
crow's foot1871
Easter rabbit1881
hexagram1882
sun sign1882
Easter bunny1900
Staffordshire knot1908
sinsigna1914
tectiform1921
padma1954
smiley face1957
happy face1971
lexigram1973
emoticon1988
smiley1989
1882 M. E. Gooday tr. J. J. A. Worsaae Industr. Arts Denmark 87 Long-billed figures of geese are found, in combination with sun-signs and other symbols.
1893 S. O. Addy Hall of Waltheof 93 The sign of the cross was itself a sun-sign amongst the heathen Northmen.
1936 Chicago Defender 3 Oct. 4/6 (advt.) Astrological reading based upon your Zodiac Sun Sign... Star chart of Favorable and Unfavorable Days included free.
1986 Toronto Star (Nexis) 23 Sept. n12 I have heard that moon signs sometimes overpower sun signs, if it's in its 26th hour, or thereabouts, at the time of birth.
1987 Durham Univ. Jrnl. 80 10 By the Roman period in western Europe, devotees of Celtic solar cults had adopted the wheel as a common and dominant sun-sign.
2013 Sunday Tribune (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 6 Jan. 19 Western astrology generally looks at your sun sign and gives general predictions that are common to millions of people.
sun-signalling n. now historical signalling by means of flashes of reflected sunlight; = heliography n. 4.
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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > heliography > [noun]
sun telegraphy1875
sun-signalling1876
heliography1887
1876 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. Jan. 544 A passing cloud is quite enough to interrupt the most important message... This is an evil of such great magnitude, that it at once places sun-signalling in the second class.
1902 Navy & Army Illustr. 22 Feb. 572/2 Our illustration shows the comrades in arms of both parts of the Empire learning the art of sun-signalling together.
1993 W. M. Keynes Sir F. Galton i. 2 Galton had a strong mechanical bent, producing over the years a long succession of mechanical inventions, such as..an instrument for sun-signalling.
† sun sitting n. Obsolete the setting of the sun or the time at which this occurs; sunset. [Quot. ?a1475 may instead show setting n.1 as its second element (compare sitte at set v.1 γ. forms).]
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset
sunsetOE
settle-gangc1000
evensongc1330
sun going downa1382
setc1386
decline14..
sun restc1405
sun gate down1440
sunsetting1440
sun sitting?a1475
falling1555
sunsetting1575
downsetting1582
sunfall1582
declining1588
sun go down1595
tramontation1599
vail1609
daylight gate1613
sundown1620
set of day1623
dayset1633
day shutting1673
sky setting1683
sun-under1865
?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 448 Sunne syttyng [1440 Harl. 221 settynge], or sunne gate downe, occasus.
1664 tr. Fifth Bk. Amadis de Gaule sig. U3v They began to mount up the Rock, and travelled so long, that about Sun-sitting they came unto the hermitage.
1857 M. Adolphus Diary 1 Aug. in S. Carolina Hist. Mag. (1953) 54 27 I went back to Aunts that evening, eat supper before sun sitting, got on our buggy and drove to Captain Williams, and met a very hearty welcome.
sun-smile n. a warm or welcoming smile.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > [noun] > a smile > other types of smile
smilet1591
beam1773
sun-smile1808
a wan smile1877
shit-eating grin1956
shit-eating grin1990
1808 Emerald 30 Jan. 173/1 The sun-smile of a recompensing God.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. xi. 82 Rewarded by a sun-smile, and such melodious glad words.
1952 Hudson Rev. 5 93 Her lips colored by the sun-smile upon them.
2000 Callaloo 23 1314 As soon as she turned around and shined her sun-smile in anyone's direction, all they could say was, ‘Mornin', Miss Beulah. You lookin' some pretty.’
sun-smitten adj. struck by the sun's rays; spec. afflicted with sunstroke.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [adjective] > sunstroke or heatstroke
sunstruck1749
sun-smitten1797
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > exposed to heat of sun
sunny?1440
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sun-bathed1839
1797 C. Newton Poems 29 Loose let the hand, from each Sun-smitten string, Full Peals of Gladness and rich Joyance ring.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xx. 197 It was only by God's blessing that we were neither of us sun-smitten.
1904 W. Deeping Slanderers (1905) xix. 166 The wings of angels, brilliant as sun-smitten snow, seemed to breathe and beat above her head.
2014 Sunday Times (Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 30 Nov. 15 The vast expanses of sun-smitten silicates that are today the UAE.
sun spark n. a spark or flash of sunlight; a glint of sunlight on an object or surface.In early use frequently poetic.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > gleam or glint of > on a surface or object
sun spark1828
plash1848
sun scald1897
1828 E. Atherstone Fall of Nineveh I. ii. 36 Above the hills Flashed the first sun-spark as its height they gained.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 140 The sun-spark on the sea.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love (1922) xxviii. 466 It seemed like a bunch of sun-sparks, tiny and orange in the midst of the snow-darkness.
2009 C. Miller Lola's Luck 38 A sun spark on the windshield.
sun spear n. now historical a spear for catching eels or other fish, used chiefly in Ireland. [Apparently so called with reference to the sunny weather preferred for this type of fishing (because of the visibility of the fish in the water).]
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > spear > [noun] > for eels
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prick1880–4
eel-pick1883
1865 Fisherman's Mag. & Rev. 2 256 I cannot close without a final appeal..to the justice and generosity of the old squire in favour of the harmless and legitimate use of the sun-spear.
1954 Béaloideas 23 127 The Strokestown crannog yielded eel spears of the type known as ‘sun spears’.
2014 T. K. McCarthy in K. Tsukamoto & M. Kuroki Eels & Humans ii. 27/2 A special type of sunspear was used on muddy slobland areas in Wexford Harbour.
† sun-spearer n. Obsolete a person who uses a sun spear (sun spear n.) to catch eels or other fish.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for eels
eeler1851
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eel-fisher1883
eel-man1883
eel-picker1883
eel-spearer1883
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1885 Sat. Rev. 21 Nov. 673/1 In the early sunny mornings..the sun-spearer sallies forth in a..boat.
† sun spearing n. Obsolete the action or process of using a sun spear (sun spear n.) to catch eels or other fish.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > [noun] > for eels in specific manner
bobbing1620
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eeling1780
sand-eeling1862
sun spearing1865
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blobbing1877
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1865 Fisherman's Mag. & Rev. 2 248 The instrumental requisites for sun spearing are a small boat and a spear specially constructed for this purpose.
1885 Sat. Rev. 21 Nov. 673/1 ‘Sun-spearing’..is much sought after in the Irish loughs during..June and July.
1899 Fishing Gaz. 22 July 63/3 On Tresco and St. Martin's Flats plaice can be taken by sun spearing.
sunspecs n. colloquial sunglasses.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for protecting the sight > [noun] > spectacles or eyeglasses > to protect the eyes from light
smoke-glass1770
sunglasses1817
dark glasses1861
sunspecs1907
Polaroids1940
aviator1951
sunnies1954
shade1958
sunshades1963
1907 K. E. Harriman Sadie v. 47 The tourists with the green sun specs began to stop off here and do a little bartering with the Indians.
1976 Punch 11 Aug. 234/1 Choose a chair and pull up a glass, push up the sunspecs and just drink in this room.
2004 C. Manby Girl meets Ape xi. 62 They were both sporting sunspecs.
sun-spring n. †(a) the region or direction in which the sun rises, the east (obsolete); (b) the rising of the sun or the time at which this occurs, sunrise; also figurative (now archaic and rare).
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [noun]
eastwardeOE
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orientc1385
sun-springa1400
eastwarda1450
eastwards?1574
sunristc1600
rising sun1613
aurora1617
morn1647
moonrise1728
morning-land1838
dawning1879
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]
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dayeOE
day-rimOE
day-redOE
mornOE
lightOE
lightingOE
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grekinga1300
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uprisingc1330
sun arisingc1350
springc1380
springingc1380
day-springa1382
morrowingc1384
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orienta1522
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morrow dayc1530
peep of the morning1530
prick of the day?1533
morning1535
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peep of dawn1751
strike of day1790
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day-daw1823
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first light1838
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piccaninny sun1846
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gloaming1873
glooming1877
sparrow-fart1886
crack1887
sun-spring1900
piccaninny dawn1936
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xlix. 2 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 181 Fra sonne springe to setelgange.
1832 World of Fashion Oct. 231/2 Silence is the sun-spring of the soul.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 14 June 2/3 The sun-spring of love!
1972 D. Van Arnam Greyland ix. 57 We awoke, just before sunspring, the next morning.
sun still n. a still which uses sunlight to cause water to evaporate; (in later use) = solar still n. at solar adj. and n.1 Compounds 3.rare before 20th cent.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > still > [noun] > types of
rose-garland1527
sun still1688
pot still1799
turpentine still1799
still-pota1824
rectifying column1836
patent still1887
stripper1930
pipestill1931
solar still1946
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xx. 230 The Italian distillary, or Sun Still: this is formed of two round bodied glass bottles, one..set with the mouth of it downwards into an other with it mouth vpwards.
1943 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 3 Aug. 15/2 Gallowhur Chemical Corporation, Windsor, Vt... Sunstill..For Distillation Apparatus.
1957 N.Y. Times 30 Oct. 38/2 (heading) U.S. plans a test of new sun ‘still’. Solar device would work 24 hours a day turning salt water into fresh.
2010 W. Szykitka Big Bk. Self Reliant Living (ed. 2) ii. 102 Fix your daily water ration after considering the amount of water you have, the output of sun stills and desalting kit, the number and physical condition of your party, and the principle of rationing your sweat.
sun streak n. (a) a stretch of sunlight reflected on the surface of water; a shaft of sunlight, a sunbeam; (b) a patch or streak where the colour of something has faded in, or been bleached by, the sun; (now) esp. a streak of lighter colour in a person's hair where it has been bleached by the sun, or a similar highlight created by artificial bleaching or dyeing; chiefly in plural.
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1820 Ladies' Lit. Cabinet 2 Dec. 31 He saw the sun streaks o'er the ocean, Sparkling like the joys of childhood.
a1835 F. D. Hemans And I too in Arcadia in Poet. Wks. (1836) 211/2 Insect-wings in sun-streaks dancing.
1897 N.Y. Times 30 May 16/1 For sun streaks on furniture, a preparation of one-third sweet oil to two-thirds of alcohol is excellent.
1911 N.Y. Times 24 Sept. vii. 6/7 With care and using only finger tips the grease can be kept out of the long hair. Only time will remedy the sun streaks, but other treatment lessens the dead look of burned and faded hair.
1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 12/2 (advt.) Style cuts—blow cuts—sun streaks—colouring—body waves—manicures.
1998 H. G. Robinet Forty Acres & maybe Mule vii. 47 Gladness's smile—white teeth in a dark brown face—was like a bright sun streak from dark skies.
2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Aug. e3 Southern California, the land of long locks and sun streaks.
sun-streaked adj. (a) streaked or shot through with shafts of sunlight; (b) (esp. of hair) having or characterized by streaks of lighter colour, as a result of bleaching by the sun; (also) artificially dyed or bleached to achieve this effect.
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1773 J. Macpherson Fingal (new ed.) i, in Poems of Ossian (new ed.) I. 231 The sun-streaked mist of the heath.
1843 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. June 607/1 The dim, sun-streaked interior of a lofty barn.
1925 Vogue 1 Oct. 147/3 (advt.) Has summer left dry, faded, sun-streaked hair?
1981 R. Glendinning Ultimate Game iv. 76 The faded and sun-streaked wallpaper was peeling from one wall.
1998 Cycling & Mountain Biking Today Apr. 38/2 Black Hill.., providing the gift of views for miles across bleak, sun-streaked moorland.
2012 Bristol Post (Nexis) 19 July 6 If you are outdoors a lot you could try combing a little lemon juice into your hair for a natural sun-streaked look.
sunsuit n. an outfit or garment for hot sunny weather or activities such as sunbathing or going to the beach; (now) esp. one for a child.
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1914 Dry Goods Economist 3 Oct. (Fabric section) 17 (advt.) Tropical Cloth has every quality you can think of to recommend it. Makes capital sun suits for women and men.
1929 Punch 17 July p. xxxv/2 (advt.) If preparing for a sun-bath, a swim, or both, slip into the Jantzen Sun-suit!
1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird xi. 147 I got out into the garden in my sunsuit.
2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 16 Aug. (Features section) 15 All the requisite accoutrements of modern day junior swimming, i.e. armbands, all-in-one sunsuits, Legionnaire-style sunhats, coloured Factor 60 sunblock, etc.
sun-synchronous adj. (of a satellite or its orbit) passing over the same points on the earth’s (or other planet’s) surface at the same times each day.
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1963 Publ. Goddard Space Flight Center 2 144/1 The precise type of polar orbit, for example, sun-synchronous, will demonstrably affect the eventual launch date.
1998 UFO Mag. Jan. 53/3 It's hoped to place Surveyor into a circular Sun-synchronous orbit so that it can pass above any given point on the Martian surface at the same time of day.
2009 Guardian 4 Feb. 35/5 The craft's intended circular orbit at 870km is..chosen to be sun-synchronous so that it passes northwards over most points on the Earth in the early afternoon, and southwards in the early morning.
† sun tank n. Obsolete a tank in which water or another liquid, such as oil, is exposed to the sun's rays; sun pan n.
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1871 Manufacturer & Builder Feb. 26/1 When a better grade of oil is desired, it is bleached by exposing it in a shallow ‘sun-tank’ to the action of the sun.
1910 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 762/1 A sun-tank six hundred and fifty feet square is capable of producing over a thousand horse-power for seven hours a day throughout the year.
sun tea n. originally and chiefly North American (a drink of) tea made by immersing tea leaves in a closed container of cold water and leaving it to infuse in the sun, typically for serving with ice and lemon; (also) a similar drink made from plants other than tea.
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1962 Blytheville (Arkansas) Courier News 1 Apr. 25/1 To make ‘sun tea’, all you need is a large jar, fresh water and tea bags. The sun does the heating and brewing.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 7 July Let the loose tea steep for about six hours; when the tea is the right color add ice, lemon and sugar and enjoy. (Sun tea lacks the harsher taste of boiled brew.)
1980 M. Tierra Way of Herbs iv. 29 A ‘sun tea’ is made by exposing the herbs in water to the sun for a few hours in a tightly covered glass bottle.
2014 J. Burnaugh Madolix 49 Busy Isy had never invited me for conversation onto her porch and instead sat silently with her sun tea.
† sun telegraphy n. Obsolete signalling by means of flashes of reflected sunlight; = heliography n. 4.
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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > heliography > [noun]
sun telegraphy1875
sun-signalling1876
heliography1887
1875 Jrnl. Soc. Telegr. Engineers 4 25 The chief objection to the adoption of the sun-telegraphy is that we cannot command the sun to shine in the same manner as we have command over a galvanic battery.
1899 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 21 Dec. 5/4 As to the distance over which sun telegraphy can travel, it would seem that the record was obtained by French engineers in Algeria.
sun-tight adj. [after watertight adj.] impervious to the sun's rays; into or through which sunlight cannot pass.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > quality of being incombustible > [adjective] > impervious to heat > to sun's rays
sun-tight1861
1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. iii. 88 To make his building light and well ventilated, and yet sun-tight.
1913 J. H. Weeks Among Congo Cannibals iv. 65 We had a large airy house, rain, wind, and sun-tight, which undoubtedly greatly conduced to health and comfort.
2015 W. van Bommel Road Lighting xxii. 313 These so-called sun-tight screens are now scarcely ever employed.
suntrap n. chiefly British a place or area sheltered from the wind and suitable for sunbathing.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > to heat of sun > place exposed to sun
sollarc1440
suntrap1848
sunspot1960
1848 H. L. Lear Tales Kirkbeck 82 Hawk's Nest is indeed a very suntrap, and in addition to the advantages of its situation, it is further sheltered from the keen east winds by a fine cluster of venerable old ash trees.
1896 Q. Rev. July 59 These small, beautifully kept gardens..—sun-traps they must have been with their big, high walls.
1957 Life 11 Feb. 58/2 A sun-lover who wanted to bask all year round, Mrs. Molzow rigged up her own sun trap.
2016 Sunday Times (Nexis) 3 July Relax on the patio—a glorious little suntrap—with a glass of chardonnay.
† sun uprising n. Obsolete = sun arising n. (b).
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c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Laud) (1901) 847 At þe sonne op rysyng [a1350 Harl. vpspringe].
† sun uprist n. Obsolete = sun arising n. (b).
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c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 193 In the gardyn at the sonne vp riste She walketh.
sun valve n. now historical an automatic device activated by the heat of the sun, serving to control the operation of the light of a lighthouse, beacon, etc.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide > light beacon or lighthouse > valve activating
sun valve1908
1908 Master, Mate & Pilot Dec. 255/2 By the adoption of the sun valve, it is possible to make a further saving of from 30 to 40 per cent, without the necessity of keeping an attendant to light the signal at sunset and shut it off at sunrise.
1936 W. H. McCormick Mod. Bk. Lighthouses xi. 92 The light is automatically turned on and off..by placing the light in charge of an ‘AGA’ Sunvalve.
2014 Proc. IEEE 102 1390/2 In 1907, he [sc. Dalén] designed what has been considered his most famous invention: the sun valve.
sun visor n. (a) a hinged or fixed screen mounted behind or (formerly) in front of a vehicle's windscreen to shield the occupants’ eyes from bright sunlight; (b) an item of headwear with a stiff peak to shield the eyes from bright sunlight; (also) spec. the peak of such an item of headwear.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > hood or brim to protect face
bongrace1530
shadow1578
curtain1788
shade1818
ugly1850
poke1859
sunshade1868
sun visor1920
visor1939
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > windscreen > sun visor
sun visor1920
visor1925
1920 Motor Age 15 Jan. 32/1 (caption) The new Hudson has the sun visor in this model. A feature appreciated by tourists.
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 July 2/1 Bright Sunshine is fine—enjoy it all the more by wearing a sun visor... A necessity to campers, sportsmen, etc.
1936 Times 19 Oct. 8/2 The inside fittings include..sun visors, footrests, etc.
1956 A. Steuer Terrible Swift Sword viii. 226 Mr. Cantrell pulled the sun visor of his hat down and climbed into the seat behind the first rod.
1978 L. Heren Growing up on The Times ii. 30 I..had a large American Ford V8 car fitted with a sun visor projecting over the windscreen.
2016 Daily Mail (Nexis) 20 May Posing on a beach in a white string bikini and matching sun visor, her hands on her hips, Joan shows off her lithe body.
sun worship n. (a) the worship of the sun; (b) figurative sunbathing.Sense (b) is now the usual sense.
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1649 W. Greenhill Expos. Continued upon Ezekiel viii. 174 Sun-worship, which was the practise of the Gentiles.
1813 Monthly Rev. 71 477 The sun-worship of the Persians, and the manicheism of the Zend-Avesta..are classed with the monotheism of the Jews.
1929 Abilene (Texas) Morning News 27 Jan. The cult of sun-worship in America is not an organized faith.
1998 J. Cope Mod. Antiquarian 332 (caption) The early Christian keeil at Ballingan stands on the sun hill of Baal, showing the relationship between early Christianity and sun worship.
2005 Esquire July 160/2 For a safe alternative to sun worship, this delivers streak-free colour.
sun-worship v. intransitive to sunbathe.
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1966 Naugatuck (Connecticut) Daily News 8 Dec. 6/2 Buzzy and Jim James sun worshipped in Florida recently.
2011 Bristol Post (Nexis) 7 Jan. 37 We sun-worshipped, we paddled, we dozed, we fished.
sun worshipper n. (a) a person who worships the sun; (b) figurative a person who enjoys basking in the sun; a sunbather.Sense (b) is now the usual sense.
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1623 S. Wastell tr. J. Shaw True Christians Daily Delight 112 Tammuz bewail'd; Sun-worshippers [L. soli incurvantes], and strange abomination.
1830 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 3 i. 34 The characters of the Osci or Opici..have a great analogy to the rock-inscriptions of the Scythic Sauras, or sun-worshippers of Saurashtra.
1904 E. A. T. W. Budge Guide 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Museum 122 When the first sun-worshippers entered Egypt.
1929 Abilene (Texas) Morning News 27 Jan. (headline) Tan-seeking craze of modern sun-worshipers, now heading south for winter.
1995 Church Hist. 64 638 Constantine no longer wanted himself viewed as a sun-worshipper or reincarnation of the sun god.
2005 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 21 Aug. 7/2 A new generation of sun worshippers is addicted to tanning despite the deadly risk of skin cancer.
sun worshipping n. (a) the action or practice of worshipping the sun; (b) figurative sunbathing.Sense (b) is now the usual sense.
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1617 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 3) v. vii. §6. 608 Wee haue..spoken of the Bulloches,..Sunne-worshipping, Giantly bignesse, and Inhumane humanitie, in eating mans-flesh.
1856 M. O' Brennan Ess. on Ireland 8 The use of light-houses..answered the twofold purpose of sun-worshipping, and as guides for mariners.
1936 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 12 Apr. (Screen & Radio section) 12/2 Betty was not behind the door when it came to sun-worshipping.
1995 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 28 357/2 Jung himself regarded sun worshipping as the most rational form of religion.
2016 City A.M (Nexis) 14 Nov. 27 There's a surprising amount for those interested in something other than sun worshipping.
sun-worshipping adj. (a) that worships the sun; (b) figurative that enjoys basking in the sun; that sunbathes.Sense (b) is now the usual sense.
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1851 E. S. Wortley Trav. in U.S. III. viii. 163 It was very difficult for the Spaniards to ascertain who the first sun-worshipping Incas really were.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture II. xviii. 384 The sun-worshipping Comanches, preparing for the war-path, will place their weapons betimes on the east side of the lodge to receive the sun's first rays.
1966 C. Simpson Viking Circle 180 I kept coming on these sun-worshipping girls, and asked several of these comely sunners if I could photograph them.
1991 A. Nikiforuk Fourth Horseman v. 75 The only sun-worshipping Mound-builders of any significance left were the warlike Natchez, who wore tattoos like war medals.
2015 Sunday Times (Nexis) 17 May (Travel section) 16 Secret Bay is an ideal base for sun-worshipping spouses, with its tidy treehouses and sandy cove.
b. In names of plants.See also sunchoke n., sundew n., sundrop n., sunflower n.
sunberry n. (a) originally and chiefly U.S. an annual plant of the genus Solanum cultivated for its edible purple berries (probably a form or hybrid of black nightshade, S. nigrum); the fruit of this plant; also called wonderberry; (b) a cultivated bramble produced by crossing a raspberry and a blackberry; the fruit of this plant. [In sense (a) perhaps with reference to classical Latin sōl sun (see sol n.1), from which sōlānum nightshade (see solanum n.) is probably derived.]
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1909 Rural New-Yorker 1 May 476/2 A signed statement by Mr. Burbank reads thus: The Sunberry, or Wonderberry, is a new fruiting plant which originated in my grounds three years ago.
1949 L. H. Bailey Man. Cultivated Plants (rev. ed.) 868 S[olanum] nigrum, L. a prostrate..weed of world-wide distribution, but certain forms cult. for the large edible berries and then known as Morelle, Garden Huckleberry, Wonderberry, Sunberry.
1982 E. Keep et al. in Rep. East Malling Res. Station 1981 (Kent Incorporated Soc. for Promoting Exper. in Hort.) 183/1 The blackberry x raspberry hybrid selection 2143/9, which was on trial at the National Fruit Trials from 1974-79, has been named and released as Malling Sunberry. Sunberry is being propagated by the Nuclear Stock Association.
1994 Guardian 11 June (Weekend Suppl.) 42/4 In Wales, one of the best is Berryhill Farm..with plenty of soft fruit including sunberries (a long berry that is a blackberry/raspberry cross), tayberries and tummelberries.
2007 C. Foley Allotment Handbk. (new ed.) vi. 161/1 The resulting hybrids—loganberry, tayberry, boysenberry, tummelberry, veitchberry, youngberry, sunberry, dewberry and Japanese wineberry-are usually earlier, sweeter and less rampant.
2015 J. Warren Nature of Crops ii. 24 Poisonberries, wonderberries and sunberries are all alternative names for the fruit the British usually call black nightshade and the Americans typically call garden huckleberries.
sun cress n. now rare any of various South African plants of the genus Heliophila (family Brassicaceae), typically having blue, pink, or white flowers which open in the sun and close at night or in overcast conditions.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > other crucifers
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boor's mustard1548
dish-mustard1548
rocket1548
treacle mustard1548
heal-dog1551
Thlaspi1562
candy mustard1597
Grecian mustard1597
Italian rocket1597
knave's mustard1597
madwort1597
mithridate mustard1597
moonwort1597
mithridate1605
wall-rocket1611
broom-wort1614
candytuft1629
draba1629
Turkey cress1633
rock cress1650
shepherd's cress1713
pennycress1714
alyssum1731
arabis1756
tower mustard1760
faverel1770
molewort1770
stinkweed1793
wall cabbage1796
wall-cress1796
awl-wort1797
sickle-pod1846
Kerguelen cabbage1847
sun cress1848
sand rocket1854
wall mustard1904
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1848 Ann. Hort. 410/2 Heliophila trifida,..(trifid Sun-cress)... A slender branching annual plant, growing about a foot high, with the lower leaves trifid.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Heliophila pectinata, Sun Cress.
1973 P. Shanks Golden Home Encycl. Garden Plants 256/2 Sun cress see Heliophila.
sun fern n. (originally) the beech fern, Phegopteris connectilis (family Thelypteridaceae), which typically grows in temperate northern forests and exposed rocky areas (now rare); (in later use) any of various ferns which are able to grow or thrive in sunny conditions.
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1813 W. T. Aiton Hortus Kewensis (ed. 2) V. 506 Phegopteris... Pale mountain Polypody. Sun-fern.
1901 W. N. Clute Our Ferns & their Haunts 201 The..beech fern..is also called sun fern, perhaps from its growing in exposed places.
1987 New Phytologist 105 86 (caption) Respiratory activity of mitochondria isolated from shade and sun ferns.
2008 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 22 Apr. Lewis also sells sun ferns—a variety called Kimberly Queen—which do very well in sunshine, and Boston ferns.
sunfruit n. [after scientific Latin Heliocarpus, genus name ( Linnaeus Hortus Cliffortianus (1738) 221)] now rare any of the shrubs and trees of the genus Heliocarpus (family Malvaceae), native to Central and South America, the members of which typically have panicles of greenish-yellow flowers, lobed leaves, and a fruit in the form of a small, flat capsule with radiating hairs (thought to resemble the sun).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > others
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mahoe1666
poison berry1672
white mangrove1683
maiden plum1696
angelin1704
garlic-pear1725
milkwood-tree1725
Jack-in-the-box1735
cherimoya1736
rattle bush1750
galapee1756
genip1756
lace bark1756
sunfruit1787
wild orange1802
hog-nut1814
mountain pride1814
savannah wattle1814
mora1825
rubber tree1826
mayflower1837
bastard manchineel1838
long john1838
seringa1847
sack tree1849
jumbie tree1860
jumbie bean1862
king-tree1863
gauze-tree1864
mountain green1864
snowdrop tree1864
strong bark1864
switch-sorrel1864
candle-tree1866
maypole1866
angelique1873
poisonwood1884
porkwood1884
1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. Families of Plants I. 329 (header) Heliocarpus... (Sun-fruit).
1831 G. Don Gen. Hist. Dichlamydeous Plants I. 542/1 H[eliocarpus] Americanus... American Sun-fruit... H[eliocarpus] Popayanensis... Popaya Sun-fruit.
1901 G. Nicholson Cent. Suppl. Dict. Gardening II. 419/1 Heliocarpus. Sun Fruit... Flowers small, disposed in terminal panicles. Leaves three-lobed, serrated.
2016 S. Cook Forest Lacandon Maya v. 161/1 Heliocarpus (sunfruit). Malvaceae (Tiliaceae)... These are small trees noted for their soft, light weight wood and strong, durable fibre.
sun grass n. a grass which thrives in sunny conditions, spec. †(a) Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon; (b) cogon grass, Imperata cylindrica. [In quot. 1810 probably reflecting a folk-etymological association of doob n. with the unrelated Hindi dhūp sunlight.]
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > dog's-tooth
dog's tooth1600
Bermuda grass1801
Bahama grass1808
doob1810
sun grass1810
yard-grass1822
quick grass1838
kweek grass1904
1810 T. Williamson E. India Vade-mecum I. 259 The kind of grass prepared for horses, is the doob, or sun-grass, nearly corresponding with our fine creeping-bent.
1878 Stray Feathers Dec. 285 The nest is a deep cup externally of fine grasses, internally of the downy tops of the Sun grass.
1911 Texas Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 20 7 It [sc. Bermuda] is a sun grass, and is truly at home in the Gulf States.
1974 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Post 3 Feb. e3/1 Sun grass..is used as standard thatched roofing on village houses in Bangladesh.
2003 Ambio 32 121/2 Most of the hills..are now denuded and covered with small bushes, vines and poor undergrowth of sun-grass (Imperata cylindrica).
sun plant n. (a) any plant that grows best in full sunlight (contrasted with shade plant); (b) a low-growing annual herbaceous plant native to Brazil, Portulaca grandiflora, widely cultivated for its colourful bowl-shaped flowers, which open in the sun.
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the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > that likes light or shade
sun plant1862
shade-bearer1891
sciophyte1902
shade plant1926
shade-lover1960
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > of south or tropical America
marvel of Peru1597
flower of the night1665
world's wonder1706
butterfly flower1731
mirabilis1754
four o'clock flower1756
bastard mustard1759
Browallia1782
bastard plantain1796
cleome1806
alonsoa1812
gloxinia1816
schizanthus1823
butterfly plant1825
petunia1825
sinningia1826
salpiglossis1827
mask flower1834
poinsettia1836
guaco1844
spiderwort1846
mist flower1848
balisier1858
spider flower1861
sun plant1862
eucharis1866
pretty-by-night1869
Rocky Mountain bee plant1870
urn-flower1891
tulip-poppy1909
smithiantha1917
poor man's orchid1922
ten o'clock1953
tiger-iris-
1862 Proc. Royal Soc. 1860–62 11 348 As is said by the writer of a pamphlet published by the Cotton Supply Association—‘cotton is decidedly a sun-plant.’
1887 G. Nicholson Illustr. Dict. Gardening III. 202/2 Sun-plant. Fl[owers] yellow, purple,..terminal.
1963 Oxf. Bk. Garden Flowers 140/2 Sun Plant. The yellow, pink, scarlet or purple cup-shaped flowers of this little plant from Brazil open in direct sunshine and close in shadow.
1979 W. M. M. Baron Organization in Plants (ed. 3) iii. 42 Shade plants can utilize low light intensities more efficiently than sun plants.
2007 D. Squire Propagation Specialist (2008) 72/3 Portulaca grandiflora (Sun Plant) Half-hardy annual—sow 3 mm (1/ 8 in) deep.
2009 Jrnl. Torrey Bot. Soc. 136 465 At higher light levels, photosynthetic rates were significantly greater for sun plants than shade plants.
sun rose n. any of the small evergreen shrubs of the genus Helianthemum, which flourish in sunny and dry conditions and have short-lived flowers which open in the morning (see helianthemum n.); also called rock rose.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rock-rose and allies
sunflower1597
rock rose1731
rock cistus1741
helianthemum1822
sun rose1822
1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening Index 1406/1 Helianthemum, sun-rose.
1884 Gardening Illustr. 14 June 169/1 Passing from the Rock Roses (Cistus) to the more generally familiar Sun Roses (Helianthemum).
1914 H. H. Thomas Rock Gardening for Amateurs 53 The Sun Roses (Helianthemum) are showy little shrubs suitable for high rock ledges.
2007 B. W. Ellis Covering Ground 25/1 (caption) Also called sun roses, Helianthemum species are evergreen shrubs that require very well-drained neutral to alkaline soil.
sun spurge n. a common annual Eurasian spurge which exhibits heliotropic movements, Euphorbia helioscopia, regarded as a weed of cultivated ground.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Euphorbiaceae (spurges and allies) > [noun]
catapucec1386
Euphorbiaa1398
spurgea1400
tithymala1400
faitour's grassc1440
cat's-grassc1450
nettlewort1523
essell1527
lint-spurge1548
sea wartwort1548
spurge thyme1548
line-spurge1562
myrtle spurge1562
sun spurge1562
wolf's-milk1575
cypress tithymal1578
devil's milk1578
mercury1578
sea-spurge1597
sun tithymal1597
welcome to our house1597
wood-spurge1597
Euphorbium1606
milk-reed1611
milkwort1640
sun-turning spurge1640
spurge-wort1647
caper-bush1673
Portland spurge1715
milkweed1736
Medusa's head1760
little-good1808
welcome-home-husband1828
three-seeded mercury1846
cat's-milk1861
turnsole1863–79
mole-tree1864
snow-on-the-mountain1873
seven sisters1879
caper-plant1882
asthma herb1887
mountain snow1889
crown of thorns1890
olifants melkbos1898
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 154v This kinde is called in diuerse partes of England Wartwurt; it maye also be called son spourge, or son folowynge spourge.
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. i. 198 That [sc. the Seed] of Wartwort or Sun-Spurge, hath a very complex Figure.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 449 Euphorbia helioscopia,..Wart-wort... Cats-milk. Sun Spurge.
1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side i. 84 Almost every one knows the common Sun Spurge, often growing as a weed in gardens.
1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land 171 Hardhead (Centaurea nigra) and sun spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia) are the most influenced by this crop [sc. peas and beans], as they failed to appear in it on any occasion.
2015 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 19 Apr. The scourge of my old garden in London was sun spurge.
† sun tithymal n. Obsolete rare = sun spurge n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Euphorbiaceae (spurges and allies) > [noun]
catapucec1386
Euphorbiaa1398
spurgea1400
tithymala1400
faitour's grassc1440
cat's-grassc1450
nettlewort1523
essell1527
lint-spurge1548
sea wartwort1548
spurge thyme1548
line-spurge1562
myrtle spurge1562
sun spurge1562
wolf's-milk1575
cypress tithymal1578
devil's milk1578
mercury1578
sea-spurge1597
sun tithymal1597
welcome to our house1597
wood-spurge1597
Euphorbium1606
milk-reed1611
milkwort1640
sun-turning spurge1640
spurge-wort1647
caper-bush1673
Portland spurge1715
milkweed1736
Medusa's head1760
little-good1808
welcome-home-husband1828
three-seeded mercury1846
cat's-milk1861
turnsole1863–79
mole-tree1864
snow-on-the-mountain1873
seven sisters1879
caper-plant1882
asthma herb1887
mountain snow1889
crown of thorns1890
olifants melkbos1898
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 406 With leaues like the sunne Tithymale.
† sun-turning spurge n. Obsolete rare = sun spurge n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Euphorbiaceae (spurges and allies) > [noun]
catapucec1386
Euphorbiaa1398
spurgea1400
tithymala1400
faitour's grassc1440
cat's-grassc1450
nettlewort1523
essell1527
lint-spurge1548
sea wartwort1548
spurge thyme1548
line-spurge1562
myrtle spurge1562
sun spurge1562
wolf's-milk1575
cypress tithymal1578
devil's milk1578
mercury1578
sea-spurge1597
sun tithymal1597
welcome to our house1597
wood-spurge1597
Euphorbium1606
milk-reed1611
milkwort1640
sun-turning spurge1640
spurge-wort1647
caper-bush1673
Portland spurge1715
milkweed1736
Medusa's head1760
little-good1808
welcome-home-husband1828
three-seeded mercury1846
cat's-milk1861
turnsole1863–79
mole-tree1864
snow-on-the-mountain1873
seven sisters1879
caper-plant1882
asthma herb1887
mountain snow1889
crown of thorns1890
olifants melkbos1898
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum ii. xvi. 188 Tithymalus Helioscopius. Sunne turning Spurge or Wartwort.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Tithymalus Helioscopius, Sun-turning Spurge or Wartwort.
c. In names of animals.See also sun fly n. (a) at Compounds 5a.
sun animalcule n. [after German Sonnentierchen (1804 or earlier)] any of the protozoans of the order Heliozoa, esp. Actinophrys sol, typically having a spherical body with numerous long slender radial pseudopodia (thought to resemble an image of the sun); = heliozoan n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sarcodina > order Heliozoa > [noun] > member of
sun animalcule1841
1841 A. Pritchard Hist. Infusoria 280 Genus..Actinophrys. The sun Animalcules.—Enchelian Infusoria, of a globular shape, covered with setaceous tentacula.
1959 Amer. Midland Naturalist 61 439 Two specimens of the ‘sun animalcule’, Actinophrys sol, were observed in the zooplankton samples from Dead Hat Pond.
2010 A. Wilson Photographing Pattern & Design in Nature iv. 55/1 The heliozoans or sun animalcules,..are absolutely beautiful when viewed under a microscope.
sun bear n. [after scientific Latin Helarctos, genus name (T. Horsfield 1825, in Zool. Jrnl. 2 221), apparently so called on account of its tropical habitat] (originally) any of various small Asian bears having black fur with a pale, crescent-shaped mark on the chest; (in later use) esp. the Malayan sun bear, Helarctos malayanus; also with distinguishing word.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Helarctos (sun bear)
Malayan bear1826
sun bear1833
honey bear1925
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Ursus > miscellaneous types of
ranger1825
sun bear1833
1833 Zool. Mag. 68 Bears of Asia... 5. The Labiated Bear; Ursus labiatus, Blainville. 6. The Malayan Bear; Ursus malayanus, Raffles. 7. The Thibetan Bear; Ursus thibetanus, Cuv. 8. The Bornean Bear; Ursus eurispylus, Horsfield. 9. The Isabelline Bear; Ursus isabellinus, Horsfield... Number 5 to 9 have been grouped together under the subgeneric titles Prochilus and Helarctos, or Sun-bears, having some characteristics in common, in which they differ from the rest of the genus.
1870 J. G. Wood Animal Kingdom 404 A group of Bears which have received the title of Sun-Bears, from their habit of basking in the rays of the burning sun, instead of withdrawing to their dens.
1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 741/2 The Himalayan or Tibetan sun bear.
1922 Times 22 May 6/2 From Borneo, a Sun-bear, a small and very active creature with short hair and a white chest mark.
1965 R. McKie Company of Animals ix. 146 Sun bears can become dangerous as their power increases with age.
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 411/1 Prints of the hind feet of the Sun bear (Helarctos malayanus ) are similar to small human footprints.
sun-beetle n. any of various scarabaeid or carabid beetles, esp. of the genus Amara, which are typically shiny black, bronze, or green in colour, and are commonly seen in sunny weather; cf. sunshiner n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of subfamily Cetoniinae or genus Cetonia
sun-beetle1839
flower-beetle1842
1839 G. Newport in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 886/2 In the sun-beetles..the eyes are very protuberant.
1864 J. G. Wood Our Garden Friends & Foes viii. 146 The beautiful insects termed Sun Beetles, from their habit of running about exposed to the full glare of the sunbeams,..mostly belong to two genera known by the name of Amara and Pœcilus.
1964 Guardian 13 June 6/3 A blue and black sun beetle rustled the dry grass.
2009 N. Cave Death Bunny Munro (2010) xv. 124 Bunny Junior sits in the Punto and watches a little sun beetle land on the windscreen and..wonders how anything so common could be so beautiful.
sunbittern n. a Central and South American aquatic bird, Eurypyga helias (family Eurypygidae), having black, grey, and brown variegated plumage and large red, yellow, and black eyespots on its extended wings; also called peacock-bittern; = sunbird n. 2b.
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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > eurypyga helias (sun-bittern)
sunbird1800
sunbittern1861
1861 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 367 (table) Painted Sun-Bittern. Eurypyga helias.
1876 A. R. Wallace Geogr. Distrib. Animals II. 358 The Eurypygidæ, or Sun-bitterns, are small heron-like birds with beautifully-coloured wings, which frequent the muddy and wooded river-banks of tropical America.
1946 Sci. Monthly Dec. 453/2 When I saw those lovely wings painted with the image of the sun, I had no doubt that I had my first Sun-Bittern (Eurypyga helias) before me.
2015 Pittsburgh Post.-Gaz. (Nexis) 10 June (Sooner ed.) c7 A pair of sunbitterns has successfully nested at the National Aviary, hatching a single egg in a mud-and-leaf nest that they built on a low branch overhanging the water.
† sun-gazing lizard adj. [after scientific Latin helioscopus, specific name, lit. ‘looking at the sun’ (1771 as helioscopa)] Obsolete rare the sunwatcher toadhead agama, Phrynocephalus helioscopus, a small agamid lizard native to arid regions of the Middle East and central Asia, having a brown and olive body scattered with small tubercles.
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1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 245 Sun-gazing Lizard, Lacerta Helioscopa... Brownish Lizard, with imbricated tail... This species..delights to sit in hot sunny situations, with its head turned up towards the sun.
sungem n. (more fully horned sungem) a hummingbird native to Brazil, Bolivia, and Suriname, Heliactin bilophus, which has bronze-green upperparts, white underparts, and (in the male) a black throat, blue crown, and multicoloured tufts on the sides of the head.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Trochilidae (humming-bird) > unspecified and miscellaneous types of
zumbador1758
sunbeam1769
black warrior1831
hermit-bird1837
Anna's hummingbird1839
jacobin1843
straight-tail1843
vervain hummingbird1847
wedge-bill1848
fiery topaz1854
sungem1856
wood-star1859
calliope1861
rainbow1861
sabre-wing1861
sawbill1861
swallowtail1861
sword-bill1861
thorn-bill1861
visor-bearer1861
warrior1861
wood-nymph1861
puffleg1869
calliope hummingbird1872
flame-bearer1882
shear-tail1885
plature1890
rainbow starfrontlet1966
1856 J. Gould Monogr. Trochilidæ (1861) IV. Pl. 212 (heading) Heliactin cornuta. Sun Gem.
1909 F. H. Knowlton Birds of World xxv. 561 The Sun-gem (Heliactin cornuta) of Brazil is one of the most curious as well as beautiful of Hummingbirds.
2007 Wilson Jrnl. Ornithol. 119 615/1 The Horned sungem is widely distributed in the cerrado of central Brazil and eastern Bolivia.
sungrebe n. any of various large tropical aquatic birds of the family Heliornithidae, esp. the American finfoot, Heliornis fulica, which is native to Mexico, Central and South America, and has brown plumage with white underparts, a black head and neck with white stripes, and feet having black and yellow bands and lobed toes.Cf. sunbird n. 2a.
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1851 S. F. Baird tr. J. G. Heck Iconogr. Encycl. II. Zool. 387 The sun bird or sun grebe of South America, Heliornis surinamensis..is chiefly seen on the banks of rivers and creeks, and possesses considerable beauty of plumage. [No corresponding sentence in the German original.]
1955 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 107 219 Family Heliornithidae (Sun-Grebes).
2000 S. Montgomery Journey of Pink Dolphins i. 17 In the wet season, the sun grebe's nighttime call sounds like water falling into a tin cup.
sun perch n. chiefly U.S. a sunfish (see sunfish n. 1b).
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Lepomis (sun-fish)
bream1634
roach1637
sunfish1685
round robin1709
yellowbelly1775
redbelly1791
brim1795
sun perch1804
pumpkin seed1815
sunny1835
bluegill1877
redbreast1877
tobacco-box1877
red-eared sunfish1889
shell-cracker1889
sun1896
redear1931
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Pomotis
sunfish1685
sun perch1804
sunny1835
mud bass1884
sun1896
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Molidae (ocean sun-fish) > member of genus Mola
molebat1598
mole1601
sunfisha1630
moonfish1646
mola1678
sun perch1804
ocean sunfish1900
short diodon-
1804 M. Lewis & W. Clark Weather Diary 4 July in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1986) II. 432 In this lake are also abundances of fish of various species, the pike [hap?] catt, sunfish [Note p. 433: Clark uses ‘Sun perch’] &c &c perch Carp.]
1804 P. Gass Jrnl. 15 Aug. (1807) 29 The fish here are generally pike, cat, sun perch, and other common fish.
1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xiv. 123 They were back again with some handsome bass, a couple of sun-perch and a small catfish.
1959 Kansas School Naturalist Apr. 14/1 Lepomis (Sunfish)... Sunfishes are typical pool fishes and are often called ‘sun perch’.
2008 Muskogee (Oklahoma) Phoenix (Nexis) 7 Oct. The kids like to catch sun perch.
† sun shellfish n. Obsolete rare a kind of starfish; = sea-sun n. at sea n. Compounds 6d.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Asteroidea > unspecified and miscellaneous types
five-foot1659
rose1668
five-finger1678
sun shellfish1688
urchin starfish1688
sea-toad1710
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xv. 349/2 The Sea Sun, or the Sun shell fish..differs from the Star-fish in this, that all the rays which are five..come out of the sides of the round shell.
sun spider n. a solpugid (order Solifugae). [After Spanish araña del sol (1866 or earlier), originally so called because some species are diurnal and were observed in the sunlight (compare quot. 1898).]
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > division Pseudoarachnida > order Solpugida > member of
solpugid1869
sun spider1898
roman1905
wind-scorpion1912
solifugid1925
solifuge1935
wind-spider1959
red man1966
1898 Nature 28 Apr. 619/1 Some species of Solpuga are known to be diurnal, and have been met with roaming abroad in the full glare of the tropical sunshine. From this habit they are known to the Spaniards of Santiago [de Chile] as ‘Arañhas del Sol’ (sun-spiders).
1983 Investigating Nature through Outdoor Projects xxi. 212 A large sun spider dashing like lightning across the sheet to seize a cockroach.
2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. xi. 319 The 900 or so species of solifugids, otherwise known as solpugids (Solpugida), are up to 7 centimetres long and look remarkably like spiders; indeed, they are commonly called ‘sun spiders’.
† sun squall n. (also sun squawl) [sun n.1 + an element of uncertain origin (perhaps an alteration of German Qualle or Dutch kwal jellyfish: see quarl n.1).] U.S. Obsolete a jellyfish.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish)
nettle1601
sea-nettle1601
blubber1602
nettlefish1611
red nettle1611
squalder1659
sea-jellya1682
urticaa1682
carvel1688
sea-qualm1694
sea-bleb1700
acaleph1706
sea-blubber1717
Medusa1752
quarla1820
acalephan1834
medusite1838
jellyfish1841
naked-eyed medusa1848
slobber1849
sea-cross1850
sea-danger1850
sun squall1853
discophore1856
medusoid1856
starch1860
Discophoran1876
jelly1882
sea-blub1885
1853 F. Myrick in M. F. Maury Explan. & Sailing Direct. (1854) 407 Green water, full of bright eyes and sun squalls; some sprigs of gulf and rock-wood.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) v. 79 The sun-squawl was poisonous to handle, and when the sailors came across it, they did not meddle with it.
1909 Washington Hist. Q. 5 132 (note) Other common names [for jelly-fish] are sun-fish, sun-squalls and umbrella-jellies.
sun star n. [After scientific Latin Solaster, genus name (E. Forbes 1839, in Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 8 120; < French Solastéries, plural (H. M. D. de Blainville 1830)), so called on account of its relatively numerous arms, making it resemble the image of a sun] any of various starfishes of the genus Solaster or family Solasteridae, typically having eight to thirteen arms; also with distinguishing word.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Asteroidea > member of (starfish)
starfish1538
sea-pad1558
sea-star1569
star1569
pad1613
finger fish1709
sea-sun1731
stelleridan1835
stelliridean1837
asteroid1841
sand-star1841
spoon-worm1841
sun star1841
sun starfish1850
Stellerid1882
stelleroid1900
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Asteroidea > order Spinulosa > genus Solaster > member of
sunfish1681
sun star1841
sun starfish1850
1841 E. Forbes Hist. Brit. Starfishes 110 The Purple Sun-star has from nine to eleven rays.
1881 Knowledge 23 Dec. 165/1 It is difficult to keep sun-stars alive for any length of time in an artificial state.
1967 Daily Chron. (Centralia, Washington) 18 May The Centralia diver brought in the most unusual specimen, a sun star with black stripes on orange.
1994 D. Gotshall Guide Marine Invertebr. 86/2 Northern sun star. Solaster endeca. The 7 to 13 short, tapering arms of this sea star are shorter than the other species of Solaster.
2011 Jrnl. Exper. Marine Biol. & Ecol. 407 303/1 A sea urchin..can detect predatory sunstars at a distance by using chemical cues.
sun starfish n. a sun star, esp. the common sun star ( Crossaster papposus).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Asteroidea > member of (starfish)
starfish1538
sea-pad1558
sea-star1569
star1569
pad1613
finger fish1709
sea-sun1731
stelleridan1835
stelliridean1837
asteroid1841
sand-star1841
spoon-worm1841
sun star1841
sun starfish1850
Stellerid1882
stelleroid1900
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Asteroidea > order Spinulosa > genus Solaster > member of
sunfish1681
sun star1841
sun starfish1850
1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side Contents p. ix Five-fingered Jack—Sun Star-fish—Brittle Star-fishes.
1992 Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Amendment #4 (New Eng. Fishery Managem. Council) in Sea Scallop Fishery Managem. Plan (U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin.) (1993) 52 Small juvenile scallops were ingested whole by the sun starfish Crossaster papposus.
2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 Aug. 39 Marine ecologists have made some surprising discoveries in Somerset's coastal waters, including sea hares—a mollusc—sun starfish and stalked jellyfish.
sun trout n. U.S. the weakfish, Cynoscion regalis.
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1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 362 In the Southern Atlantic States it [sc. the squeteague] is called ‘Grey Trout’, ‘Sun Trout’, and ‘Shad Trout’.
1947 Great Lakes Fisheries: Executive Hearings before Comm. on Merchant Marine & Fisheries (U.S. House of Representatives, 79th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 237 Dr. Van Oosten. Were there two kinds of trout in your waters before? Mr. Vail. Yes, sun trout and mud trout.
2008 Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Nexis) 3 Aug. c10 A taxonomic list of ‘other names’ for weakfish along the East Coast includes weakie, trout, sea trout.., sun trout.
d. With the first element in the genitive.
† sun's brow n. Obsolete rare a bulrush, perhaps the great reedmace ( Typha latifolia) or common clubrush ( Schoenoplectus lacustris).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > bulrush or club-rush
bulrushc1440
holrushc1440
glagol1480
cat's tail1548
reedmace1548
Typha1548
sun's brow1567
marsh beetle1578
marsh pestle1578
mat-rush1578
pole rush1578
water torch1578
water cat's-tail1597
ditch-down1611
doda1661
club-rush1677
deer-hair1777
club-grass1787
draw-ling1795
raupo1823
tule1837
boulder1847
blackheads1850
cat-o'-nine-tails1858
flax-tail1861
bull-sedge1879
mace reed1901
totora1936
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 35 The Bulrush hath one kinde, which of some is called Sonnes brow.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iii. 57/2 The Great Rush, or Bull Rush, called of some, the Sons Brow.
† sun's day n. [alteration of Sunday n., probably originally after post-classical Latin diēs sōlis , lit. ‘day of the sun’ (see Sunday n.)] Obsolete Sunday.In quot. 1891 a punning allusion to the sunny weather of the Sunday in question; Sunday is used as the name for the day of the week elsewhere in the text.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > specific days > [noun] > Sunday
rest dayeOE
SundayeOE
seventh dayOE
worthing dayOE
sun's daya1300
day of resta1325
Sabbath-dayc1440
sabbath1509
First-day1649
Sunday sabbath1661
Continental Sunday1856
a1300 in E. M. Thompson Customary St. Augustine's, Canterbury (1904) II. 314 In nocte vero ad matutinos, in primo motu, pulsetur ‘Sunnesdeies belle’, deinde major Absalon.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxiii. 21 On this day of vanity, this Sun's-day..they could hear the church-bell calling.
sun's flower n. [compare post-classical Latin flos solis, lit. ‘flower of the sun’ (see sunflower n.)] now rare any of various flowers associated with the sun (see sunflower n.), esp. the marigold, Calendula officinalis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > marigold
goldOE
rudc1300
gold flowera1325
solseclea1350
rodeworta1398
marigolda1400
yellow-bottlea1400
yellow goldc1405
soussiea1425
solsequium1540
soucyc1550
sun's flower1568
solsequya1680
pot marigold1760
tagetes1792
calendula1871
1568 T. Hill Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) ii. xxxi. f. 107 The Marygold is..Also named the Sunnes flower, for that after the rysynge of the Sunne vnto Noone, this flower openeth la[r]ger and larger, but after the Noone tyme, vnto the settinge of the Sunne, the flower closeth and shutteth more & more.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 35 The gods..changed her into an Heliotropian, which is called the Suns flower, which still inclines to what part soever he makes his progresse.
1890 Harvard Monthly June 139 Every flower, its head upon its breast, Was slumbering—excepting the sun's flower, The heliotrope.
1935 R. Benedict Zuni Mythol. I. i. 3 Everywhere they were standing the sun's flowers (sunflowers and buttercups) sprang up from the tears caused by the sun.
1998 J. Asala Celtic Folklore Cooking 89 Marigolds are known as the Sun's Flowers or Summer's Bride.
† sun's gem n. [after classical Latin sōlis gemma, lit. ‘gem of the sun’ (see sunstone n.)] Obsolete a white or colourless stone said to emit rays of light; = sunstone n. 1.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > other gems or precious stones > [noun]
hepatitec1305
ligurec1305
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chodchod1382
nevyn1393
asteritea1398
medusa1398
myrrhitea1398
astrion1398
emastycec14..
pinkardinec1400
iralc1420
oriel?a1425
serpentine1426
nakettec1450
pentestc1450
sun's gemc1475
sepulchre-stone1489
moonstonea1500
piantea1500
efestide1567
astroite1569
polyp stone1583
bedle1591
balanite1601
eshime1613
lyncury1638
asteria1646
pangony1658
palasin1678
palatine1678
rhombite1688
tree-stone1698
toad's eye1747
peacock stone1753
turquoise1796
odontolite1819
pagoda stone1860
tangiwai1863
fish-eye1882
c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) l. 1077 (MED) The sonnys Gemme [s] , full of beames bryght.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvii. x. 629 The Sunnes gem is white.
† sun's morn n. [after sun's day n.] Obsolete Sunday morning.
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a1425 in M. Day Wheatley MS (1921) 11 (MED) Ihesu..rose froo deeth on sonnes morne.
† sun's night n. [after sun's day n.] Obsolete the night before Sunday, Saturday night; = Sunnight n.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > specific days > [noun] > Saturday > night
SunnightOE
sun's nighta1400
Saturday night1489
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11280 In august time, þe Imparour, Was vs born vr sauueour,..On sunnes night.
sun's spot n. now rare a dark area on the sun's disk; = sunspot n. 2.
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1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. iii. xvi. 181 'Tis plain, those Clouds of dust, which we call the Sun's spots, fly along with the Sun;..(as appears, because the bright parts are burned still the same way).
1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. iii. 81 Such spots as are round about the middle, appearing long or oval towards the Limb or edge of the Disk; as was before observed of the Sun's Spots.
1861 M. Faraday Let. 29 Apr. in Corr. (2011) VI. 89 Your beautiful drawing of a Sun's spot.
1975 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 15 58 Out of these researches came the discoveries of the sun's spots, the satellites of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn at about the same time as Galileo.

Derivatives

sunship n. [ < sun n.1 + -ship suffix] now somewhat rare (chiefly with possessive adjective) a (mock) title of respect for the sun or a sun god.
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1672 tr. J. Commire Fable Sun & Frogs 4 Bidding his Sunship threaten'd Vengeance fear, Unless with speed he stop his swift Career.
1836 E. A. Poe in Southern Lit. Messenger Mar. 236/1 You need not look up at the heavens, his Sunship is not there—at least not the Sunship adored by the Syrians. That deity..is worshipped under the figure of a large stone pillar.
1904 A. Brooks Randy's Summer xi. 199 The sun rose in golden splendor one morning to find that a curtain of purple haze prevented his sunship from showing all his dazzling glory.
1996 S. G. Desai Crit. Study Later Upanishads 29 As the most fundamental in Visnu, there appears to be his sunship as bird, Suparna, who goes on high, awakening earth and having a thousand rays or flames, the golden germ, having the seven steeds of the Sun.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

sunn.2

Brit. /sʊn/, U.S. /sʊn/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, suns.
Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese sun.
Etymology: < Japanese sun (8th cent.; < Middle Chinese; compare Chinese cùn, unit of measurement).In quot. 1727 via German. The following passage reflects an earlier Japanese pronunciation of the prefixed form issun one sun (1603 as Issun in Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam; < a Middle Chinese form with prefixed numeral; compare Chinese yī one, and Japanese is-, combining form of ichi one):1670 J. Ogilby tr. A. Montanus Atlas Japannensis 475 The Issiack hath also ten great, and sixty lesser parts; the tenths are call'd isson [Du. Isson]; ten issons [Du. Issons] make an Itsiebou.
A Japanese unit of length (one-tenth of a shaku), equal to 1.19 inches (3.03 centimetres) approximately. Cf. shaku n. 1.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > Japanese units
ken1727
shaku1727
sun1727
ri1817
1727 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kæmpfer Hist. Japan II. iii. vi. 64 His [sc. Confucius'] Stature, when grown up, was very noble and majestuous, of nine Saku, and nine Suns [Ger. Sun], proportionable to the greatness of his genius.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 490/2 Japan... Sun, 10 = shaku (11·948 inches = 10/33 metre), 6 = ken, 60 = cho.
1956 K. Tomiki Judo i. 22 Regulations require that the surrounding mats be all 5 sun (about 6 inches) lower than the contest area.
2009 U. Knaack et al. Prefabricated Syst. (2012) ii. 14/1 The tatami mats, with measurements of 6 shaku 3 sun (190cm) by 3 shaku 1.5 sun (95cm), are the basis upon which the spacing and sizes of the columns..are still determined today.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sunv.

Brit. /sʌn/, U.S. /sən/
Forms: see sun n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: sun n.1
Etymology: < sun n.1 Compare slightly earlier sunning n.Compare Middle Dutch sonnen (Dutch zonnen), Middle Low German sunnen, Middle High German sünnen, sunnen (German sonnen).
1. transitive. To place in or expose to the sun; to warm, dry, etc., in sunshine. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > to the sun
sunc1460
to lay (also set, hang, etc.) a-sunning1510
insolate1623
apricate1839
c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 140 (MED) Þan it is dryed, after þat beten and so made cloþe, wiche clothe is ofte waterid and sonned [v.r. sunned] vnto the tyme it hath cawth whitnes.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos v. sig. M.ijv Mewes and birds of seas..sonne their fethers.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 739 It doth easyly, & redily draw vnto it the qualities..of those herbes..with the whiche it is set to be sonned.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 97 Cinnamon..if it be sunned too long..suffereth a torrefaction. View more context for this quotation
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ iii. 27 After you have thrashed it [sc. Seed], and chaved it with a fine Rake, and sunned it in a hot and dry season.
1740 P. Delany Hist. Acct. Life & Reign David (ed. 2) III. xi. 151 Covering the well, and spreading some ground corn over it, as it were to be sunned and dried.
1815 Ld. Byron All is Vanity i, in Hebrew Melodies 28 I sunn'd my heart in beauty's eyes.
1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner ii. 15 My..uncle is sure to be sunning his waistcoat in Piccadilly.
1921 S. MacLeod Housecleaning Made Easier (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1180) 23 The shelves should be washed and sunned.
2007 E. Blackwell Unnatural Hist. Cypress Parish 131 Baked some loaves and cakes, sunned some sheets, maybe had a family squabble.
2.
a. intransitive. To lie or bask in the sun; to sunbathe. Also figurative. In early use esp. in present participle: cf. a-sunning at sunning n. Phrases.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > be subjected or exposed to heat or fire [verb (intransitive)] > expose oneself to sun
sun1572
apricatea1691
sunbathe1917
1572 T. Blague Schole of Wise Conceytes (new ed.) 71 Many creeping beastes sat sunning [1569 a sunning], amongst whom the cockatrice was.
1606 No-body & Some-body sig. H4 Let me be hangd vp sunning in the ayre, And made a scar-crow.
1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. F8 v The while he lies, Sunning in his Mistresse Eies.
a1717 W. Diaper tr. Oppian Halieuticks (1722) i. 12 Stretcht on a rising Rock he sunning lies.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe i. 62 He loves the clouds, and watches them folding and sunning.
1933 V. Woolf Writer's Diary 13 Apr. (1953) 197 But we go today and I shall sun, with only a few books.
1976 E. Dewhurst After Ball vii. 90 The sun never does anything to my lily-white skin... Alan doesn't let me sun for too long.
2001 J. Waterman Arctic Crossing ii. 117 We see our first ringed seal this afternoon, sunning outside.
b. transitive (reflexive). To expose oneself to the sun; to bask in sunshine. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (reflexive)] > to sun
sun1572
embay1590
1572 E. Cradock Shippe of Assured Safetie ii. xiii. 234 The snake or adder, that lyeth sunning hir selfe vpon the greene bancke.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 720 Seales..meete together in droves to sleepe and sunne themselves.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 115 To roofy Houses they repair, Or Sun themselves abroad in open Air. View more context for this quotation
1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 155. ⁋4 These..used to sun themselves in that place..about dinner-time.
1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XI. xii. xiv. 472 A great number of tortoises sunning themselves at noon-day on the shore.
1838 F. S. L. Osgood Wreath Wild Flowers 148 I sunned myself once in her smile.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. iv. 34 He suns himself there after his breakfast when the day is suitable.
a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (1924) I. 103 Snakes..liked to lie in it [sc. a road] and sun themselves.
2012 Sun (Nexis) 13 June 47 I've sunned myself on a warm beach, strolled alongside 15ft snowdrifts and cycled beside the ocean.
3. intransitive. To shine as or like the sun. rare.In later use chiefly with reference or allusion to quot. 1855.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > begin to shine > shine (of or like the sun)
shinec725
give1600
sun1611
sunshine1627
sunshine1879
pelt1889
belt1942
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Soleillant, Sunning, Sunnie.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxi. ix, in Maud & Other Poems 71 Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun.
1888 T. Watts in Athenæum 17 Mar. 341 A look of joy went sunning over his worn face.
1967 Guardian 20 Nov. 6/2 Little heads sunning over with curls were patted.
4. transitive. To shine upon or illuminate as or like the sun. Chiefly poetic in early use.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (transitive)] > of the sun > shine upon
sun1637
streamer1818
1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 123 To make Bellama smile, And with one ray sun her Albino's heart.
1673 E. Polhill Divine Will viii. 172 The Favour of God sunning him round about.
1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace 78 His Arm no longer could..Shine in fulgent Arms, and Sun the Field.
?1795 T. D. Fosbroke Econ. Monastic Life iii. 64 The relick hoard was sunned by unknown light.
1828 S. Rogers Italy: Pt. 2nd 2 A glade Far, far within, sunned only at noon-day.
1867 Friends' Rev. July 741/2 Snowed on and sunned in the same hour, these flowers were yet..among the loveliest of nature's productions.
1944 C. G. Bates Windbreak as Farm Asset (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1405) 10 If the road is to be completely sunned in midwinter, trees which will be 50 feet high when mature should be set back from the south shoulder.
1984 R. A. Fletcher St James's Catapult p. viii A friendship which was sunned by far more than a shared concern with the ecclesiastical history of the twelfth century.
5. transitive. With adverbial complement. To bring into a specified condition by exposure to the sun. Often figurative.
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1785 S. Lee Recess III. 27 His fair and florid complexion, sunned over by his military exploits.
1826 Lit. Magnet 1 88 Like the reptiles of Nile, were they sunned into birth; Can the source of their splendour be ever forgot?
1894 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 41 44 Prints were often improved by sunning down the blank sky space.
1982 S. Roe Estella 24 Black girls sunned themselves darker.
2005 C. Ross Love Bk. 117 Sunned into submissive quiet, the adults smoked Susana's hand-rolled cigarettes.
†6. transitive. Scottish. To catch (salmon) using the ‘sunning’ method (see sunning n. 3). Obsolete. rare.
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1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands II. xii. 160 I observed a fellow, in the parlance of the border, sunning salmon.
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