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A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

An instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time dial. Brande & C.

The apparent difference in position of a body (as the sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth's surface, and as seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun. Annual parallax, the greatest value of the heliocentric parallax, or the greatest annual apparent change of place of a b…

A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.

To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry. "Parch in Afric sun." Shak.

A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene.

Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.

fers from a madrigal in its exclusion of contrapuntual devices; from a glee, in its being sung by many voices, instead of by one only, to each part." Stainer & Barrett.

In part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun partially eclipsed. Sir T. Browne.

See Mesmerism. L. Sunderland.

ng the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Then on pemican they feasted. Longfellow.

Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. His look became keen and penetrative. Hawthorne.

e Holy Spirit on the apostles; which occurred on the day of Pentecost; -- called also Whitsunday. Shak.

Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.

ople; to populate. "Peopled heaven with angels." Dryden. As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. Milton .

d; right; correct. My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9. Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun. Shak. I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Shak. O most entire perfect sacrifice! Keble. God made thee perfect, not immutable. Milton.

That point of the orbit of a planet or comet which is nearest to the sun; -- opposed to Ant: aphelion.

is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.

ng in a series of successive circuits; as, the periodical motion of the planets round the sun.

The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.…