sundown

[Eng.sun (1), s., and down.] The setting of the sun; sunset. sûn-drî, s. [SOONDREE.] sun-drieş, subst. pl. [SUNDRY.] Various small Sunday. Sunday-school, s . Church History : A Sunday-school is defined by Schaff ( Cyclop . Rel . Knowl . , iii. 2,261) as" an a embly of persons on the Lord's day for the study of the Bible, moral and religious instruction, and the worship of the true God. It is a method of training the young and ignorant in the duties we owe to God and to our neighbor." Sunday-schools may be said to have pa ed through three distinct phases: 1. Early Christian Catechetical Schools , for the preparation of converts for church-membership, and the instruction of the young and ignorant in the knowledge of God and of Salvation. The IMG:content-0579.png:[blocks in formation] *B. As adv.: Apart, separately. "Those three in these three rowmes did sondry dwell." Spenser: F. Q., II. ix. 48. ally. All and sundry : All, collectively and individusundry-man, subst . A dealer in sundries or in a variety of different articles. sünd-vik-ite, subst. [After Sundvik, Finland, where found; suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min.: An altered anorthite (q. v.). sune, adv. [SOON.] ( Scotch.) sun-flow-er, s . [English sun , and flower . The name is popularly accounted for by the a ertion, which has no foundation in fact, that these flowers turn so as to follow the sun in its course. It prob a bly has reference to the resemblance of the flower to the disk of the sun surrounded by rays.] Botany : 1. Helianthus annuus , an annual, herbaceous, composite plant, six to twenty feet high. The leaves, which are rough, are subcordate, crenulate, or dentate, the heads of flowers one to two feet in diameter, the florets yellow. It is a native of Mexico and Peru. In northern latitudes it flowers in July and August, but is of le height and has smaller flowers than in its native country. Its seeds yield a useful oil, sometimes used for the table; they are also eaten with avidity by cows, horses, and poultry. The liber furnishes a good fiber; the pith is used in Ru ia for moxa. The quantity of niter in the stalk makes it good fuel when dry. Since the æsthetic movement, which began about 1875, the sunflower has been much used in decoration. 2. Helianthemum vulgare . "Round her spread board the golden sunflowers shine." D. G. Ro etti: Wine of Circe. The Little Sunflower: Calendula officinal is . (Treas of Bot .) sŭng, pret. & pa. par. of v. sunk, pret. & pa. par. of v. sunk-coak, s. [SING.] [SINK, v.] Carp.: A mortise or rece in the scarfed face of a timber, and designed to receive the counterpart coak or tenon of the other timber.