sunrising

[Eng. sun (1), s., and rising.] 1. The rising of the sun above the horizon; sun IMG:content-0581.png:[blocks in formation] Physics: An abnormally brilliant coloring of the sky at sunset, followed by an after-glow, or re-illumination, observed at many places about and after the period of the Kratakoa eruption (Aug. 26, 1883), though the hypothesis that the sunset-glows were caused by the eruption is a matter of controversy. Profe or Kie ling, of Hamburg, maintains that "An intense purple glow, visible over a considerable area, may occur when, in close proximity beneath a lofty and highly attenuated haze, there is formed an extensive stratum of air of considerably higher temperature." ( Nature , October 29, 1885, p. 637.) the sunshine." -G. Eliot: Janet's Repentance, ch. i. sun'-shin-y, a. [Eng.sunshin(e); -y.] 1. Bright with the rays of the sun; sunny, unclouded. "He sometimes, in sunshiny weather, fell into fits."Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. i. 2. Bright like the sun; resplendent. "The glorious light of her sunshiny face." Spenser: F. Q. , I. xii. 23. *sun'-stead, *sunne-stead, s. [Eng.sun (1), s., and stead . It is a literal translation of the Latin solstitium.] A solstice (q. v.). "The summer sunnestead falleth out alwaies [in Italie] to be just upon the foure and twentie day of June." P. Holland: Pliny , bk. xviii., ch. xxviii.