sunbow

An iris formed by the refraction of light on the spray of cataracts or of any rising vapor. "The circling sun - bows did upbear Its fall down the hoar precipice of spray." Shelley: Witch of Atlas , xlii. sun-bright, a. Bright as the sun; resembling the sun in brightne ; bright with the sun; sunny. "Upon the landscape of the sun - bright vale, Seen, from the shady room in which we sate." Words worth: Excursion, bk. viii.