sunshine (sunshin)

and a. [ It malt at the sunne -sine. Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3337. Ne'er yet did I behold so glorious Weather As this Sun - shine and Rain together. Cowley, The Mistre Weeping. 2. Figuratively, the state of being cheered by an influence acting like the rays of the sun; anything having a genial or beneficial influence; brightne ; cheerfulne . That man that sits within a monarch's heart, And ripens in the sunshine of his favour. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 2. 12. A sketch of my character, all written by that pen which had the power of turning every thing into sunshine and joy. Lady Holland , Sydney Smith, viii. To be in the sunshine, to have taken too much drink; be drunk. George Eliot, Janet's Repentance, i. ( Davies .) [Slang.] II. a. 1. Sunny; sunshiny; hence, prosperous; untroubled. Send him many years of sunshine days! Shak., Rich. II., iv. 1. 221. 2. Of or pertaining to the sunshine; of a fair weather sort. [Rare.] Summon thy sunshine bravery back, O wretched sprite! Whittier , My Soul and L. sunshine-recorder (sun's hin-rē-kôrdėr), n. An instrument for registering the duration of sunshine. Two principal forms have come into use, one utilizing the heating effect, the other the actinic effect, of the sun's rays. The Campbell sunshine-recorder consists of a gla sphere which acts as a lens, with its focus on a curved strip of millboard. The sun's rays, focused by the sphere, burn a path on the millboard as the sun moves through the heavens. The length of the burnt line indicates the duration of sunshine, or, more strictly, the length of time that the sun shines with sufficient intensity to burn the millboard. The photographic sunshine-recorder consists of a dark chamber into which a ray of light is admitted through a pinhole. This ray falls on of sensitized paper which is placed on the inside a striin der whose axis is perpendicular to the sun's rays. Under the diurnal motion of the sun, the ray travels acro the paper, and leaves a sharp straight line of chemical action, while no other part of the paper is exposed to light. The axis of the cylinder has an adjustment for latitude. In the latest form of the apparatus two cylinders are used, one for the morning and the other for the afternoon trace. sunshiningt (sun's hi"ning), a. Sunshiny. [Rare.] As it fell out on a sun - shining day, When Phœbus was in his prime. Robin Hood and the Bishop (Child's Ballads, V. 298). sunshiny (sun's hin i), a . [ IMG:content-2480.jpg:[blocks in formation] the region within 45° of the sun's equator, and are most numerous in latitudes from 15° to 20°, being rather scarce on the equator itself. They exhibit a marked periodicity in number: at intervals of about eleven years they are abundant, while at intermediate times they almost vanish. The explanation of this periodicity is still unknown. Numerous attempts have been made to correlate it with various periodic phenomena upon the earth - with doubt ful succe , however, except that there is an unmistakable (though unexplained) connection between the spottedne of sun's surface and the number and violence of our so-called magnetic storms and auroras.