sunnud

[Hind. sunnad.] A patent, charter, or written authority. ( East Indies.) sun-ny, a. [Eng. sun (1), s.; -y.] sup sunset-shell, 8. [PSAMMOΒΙΑ.] sun'-shine, s. & a. [Eng. sun (1), s., and shine (q. v.).) A. As substantive : 1. Lit .: The light of the sun or the space where it shines; the direct rays of the sun or the place where they fall. "Basking in the sunshine."-Darwin: Descent of Man, ch. xi. 2. Fig .: The state of being cheered by an influence acting like the rays of the sun; warmth, illumination, pleasantne ; anything having a genial or beneficial influence; brightne . "Can these delights, that wait her now, Call up no sunshine on her brow?" Moore: Fire-Worshippers. B. As adj .: Sunshiny. "God save King Henry, unking'd Richard says, And send him many years of sunshine days." Shakesp.: Richard II., iv. 1. To be in the sunshine: To drink to exce . (Generally employed in the past tenses, with the sense, to be intoxicated.) ( Eng.) "He was in that condition which his groom indicated luster, or splendor; radiant. IMG:content-0580.jpg:[blocks in formation] 3. Exposed to the rays of the sun; warmed, brightened, or lighted by the sunlight; bright, cheerful, warm. ( Lit. & fig .) "The sunny hills from far were seen to glow." Dryden: Hind and Panther, iii. 556. *sunny-sweet, a . Rendered sweet or pleasantly bright by the sun. *sunny-warm, adj . Warmed or cheered by the sun; sunny. sun'-proof, adj. [Eng. sun (1), s., and proof, a. (q. v.)] Impervious to the rays of the sun. "Thick arms of darksome yew, sunproof." Marston. sun'-rişe, *sonne-ryse, s. [Eng. sun (1), s., and rise, s.] 1. The rise or first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning, or the atmospheric phenomena accompanying the rising of the sun; the time of the rising of the sun. "At sunrise she escaped their van." Macaulay: The Armada. 2. The region, place, or quarter where the sun rises; the east. sunrise-glow, s. Physics: A glow sometimes seen at or about sunrise, resembling a sunset-glow (q. v.), but refected downward instead of upward. "On the morning of the 7th inst., a curious form of sunrise- glow was observed on Ben Nevis."- Nature , March 25, 1886, p. 487.