sun chief

3931 Anthrop.: In solar hierarchies a chief or ruler who was at the same time priest of the Sun or the Sun-god, with whom he claimed relationship. "Every morning the great Sun - chief stood at the house do or facing the east, shouted and prostrated himself thrice, and smoked first towards the sun, and then towards the other three quarters." -Tylor: Prim . Cult . (ed. 1873), ii. 288. * sun-clad, a. Clothed in sunshine or radiance. "And woods were brightened, and soft gales Went forth to ki the sun - clad vales. sun-crack, s. Long fellow : Sunrise on the Hills. Geol. (pl.): Cracks left upon rocks at the time when they were being consolidated. "The sun-cracks. divide the surface into areolæ of various sizes and shapes, and when, as is most common, the superficial layer of mud is darker than the stone, snow -Quar. Jour. Geol . Soc ., xii. 202. "And wearies fruitful Nilus to convey His sun- beat waters by so long a way." Dryden: Juvenal, x. 237.