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The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.

The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine. Lambs that did frisk in the sun. Shak.

Exposed to the rays of the sun; brightened or warmed by the direct rays of the sun; as, a sunny room; the sunny side of a hill. Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores. Addison.

the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give. But all sunshine, as when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator. Milton.

Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day.

A species of soft flannel, thick and warm.

To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.

A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.

To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.

loudly; to ring. Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. Shak. To tang bees, to cause a swarm of bees to settle, by beating metal to make a din.

lar pattern. MacCullummore's heart will be as cold as death can make it, when it does not warm to the tartan. Sir W. Scott. The sight of the tartan inflamed the populace of London with hatred. Macaulay.

nimal temperature (Physiol.), the nearly constant temperature maintained in the bodies of warm-blooded (homoiothermal) animals during life. The ultimate source of the heat is to be found in the potential energy of the food and the oxygen which is absorbed from the air during respiration. See Homoiothermal. -- Temperat…

ntral America, but is now cultivated for fodder in the Southern United States and in many warm countries. Called also Guatemala grass.

To make or become tepid, or moderately warm. Goldsmith.

Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors. -- Tep"id*ness, n.

The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness. Jer. Taylor.

Gentle heat; moderate warmth; tepidness. Arbuthnot.

To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; -- said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.

Springs or baths of warm or hot water.