sun shower

A shower occurring while the sun is shining unobscured. *sun-smitten, a. Smitten or lighted by the rays of the sun. "Sun-smitten Alps." -Tennyson: Daisy, 62. sun-spot, 8. Astron. ( pl .): Certain dark spots seen by the aid of a telescope on the surface of the sun's photosphere. In a normal spot there is an exterior shade called the penumbra, an inner darker one called the umbra, and very often one deeper still in the center called the nucleus. In some there are many umbræ for one penumbra. The domes seen on the surface of the penumbra are drawn into IMG:content-0577.png:[blocks in formation] *sun-stricken, a. Stricken by the sun; affected with sunstroke.