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The light of the sun, or 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.

The quality or state of being trashy.

The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.

owing; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. Beattie.

See Arshine.

Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike. Shines only with an astral luster. I. Taylor. Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer. Dryden. Astral lamp, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained.…

water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.

To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud. If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye. Quarles.

Sprinkled over; strewed. His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.

To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.

To shine; to be conspicuous. [R.]

To blink; to shine; to look. [Obs.]

To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. Wordsworth. The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . Sir W. Scott.

Brightly. Chaucer. I say it is the moon that shines so bright. Shak.

To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.

th facets on the surface, and is flat below. This snuffbox -- on the hinge see brilliants shine. Pope.

, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc. Brocaded flowers o'er the gay mantua shine. Gay.

To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. Dryden. Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun. C…

otton threads, and used to furnish light. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.