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The sun, as the orb of day. [Poetic] So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton.

The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

epens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens. His blood-red tresses deepening in the sun. Byron.

Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base. The Netherlands . . . were reduced practically to a very degraded condition. Motley.

Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.

Day, the day of the annual race for the Derby stakes, -- Wednesday of the week before Whitsuntide.

Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.

; depression or dejection of the mind. The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay.

To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.

hange gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind. The sound developed itself into a real compound. J. Peile. All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed. Owen.…

r of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine.

To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See Dewretting.

A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel dia- becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc.

That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery.

e time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical.

A day on which courts are not held, as Sunday or any legal holiday.

One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.

A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets. [R.]

To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.