sun plant

[SUNN.] IMG:content-0578.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Ornith.: Any individual of the Humming-bird genus Aglæact is, with four species from Peru and Bolivia, extending from Ecuador into Colombia. sun-būrnt, sun-bürned, adj . [Eng. sun (1), s., and burnt .] 1. Discolored by the rays of the sun; tanned, freckled, swarthy. "He was a man as dusky as a Spaniard, Sunburnt with travel." Byron: Beppo; xxvi. 2. Scorched by the sun; as, a sunburnt soil. *sun'-bürst, s. [Eng.sun (1), and burst, s.] 1. Ord . Lang .: A sudden flash of sunlight. 2. Her . & Hist .: A flag, having a sun in splendor on a green field. Said to have been the flag of the pagan Irish. Allusions to it are common in Irish national poetry. "On the front ranks before, Dathi the sunburst bore."" Thomas Davis: Fate of King Dathi. *sun-dart, s. [Eng. sun (1), s., and dart , s.] A ray of the sun. ( Mrs. Hemans .) *sun'-dâwn, s. [Eng. sun (1), s., and dawn .] The light of the rising sun. "Under yon brake where sundawn feeds the stalks Of withered ferns with gold." Browning: Sordello, bk. ii. Sun-day, *Son-day, *Sone-day, *Son-en-day, s. & a. [A. S. sunn an dæg day of the sun; Dutch zondag; Dan. söndag ; Ger. sonntag .] A. As subst.: The first day of the week; the Christian Sabbath. [SABBATH.] B. As adj .: Pertaining, belonging, or relating to the Lord's-day or Christian Sabbath. Month of Sun days : Along and indefinite period. "I haven't heard more fluent or pa ionate English this month of Sun days."-C. Kingsley: Alton Locke , ch. xxvii. Sunday-closing, s. The principle or practice of prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sun. days, or of allowing it only during certain hours. Sunday-letter, s. The same as DOMINICAL-LET. TER (q. v.). Sunday-saint. s. One whose conduct during the sundry scholars committed pa ages of Scripture to mem ory, and their books comprised parts of the Bible in verse, Jewish antiquities, sacred poems, and dialogues. Schaff remarks that "it might be an interesting problem for a modern scholar to define important features of the present system not to be found in the early Bible Schools." 2. Schools of the Reformation Period : Luther founded schools for catechetical instruction in 1529, and this custom spread wherever the Reformation gained a foothold. In the Roman Church St. Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, about 1560, introduced into his diocese a system of schools, which continues to the present day; and in 1699 the Venerable de la Salle opened a Sunday-school (école dominicale ) at St. Sulpice. Sunday-schools were opened in Scotland about 1560 by Knox; at Bath, in 1650, by Joseph Alleine; in Roxbury, Ma ., in 1674, and at many other places in Great Britain and America between that date and 1778. 3. Modern Sunday Schools : These date from 1780 or 1781, when Robert Raikes, of Gloucester, England. began to collect a few children from the streets of that city on Sun days, and paid teachers to instruct them in religious knowledge. The improvement in the conduct and morals of the children was so marked that, when Raikes published an account of his succe , his example was followed in several other places, and in 1785 a society was formed for the establishment and maintenance of Sunday schools in all parts of the kingdom, a large sum being expended in the payment of teachers. In 1803 the Sunday School Union was formed, to secure continuous instruction by unpaid teachers, and to publish books and tracts for the benefit of the cause. The first Sunday-schools united secular with religious instruction, as did those of Borromeo and La Salle; but the spread of elementary education has to a large extent removed the nece ity of teaching reading and writing on Sun days. The Society of Friends has, however, retained the practice in its large Sunday-morning schools, with great benefit as regards influence over the working cla es above the age of childhood, and in some of the Wesley an Sunday-schools, cla es for elementary instruction are held early in the morning. Sunday schools were introduced into Scotland, Ireland, and America in the years immediately following their establishment in England; the Scottish Society for Promoting Religious Instruction among the Poor was formed in 1796, and the Irish Sunday School Society was founded in 1809, though a system of Sunday teaching had prevailed in Ireland for some years previously. In later times Sunday-schools have rapidly increased in connection with all Protestant churches throughout the world.