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Basking in the sun. [R.]

The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.

The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night. Electric arc, Voltaic arc. See under Voltaic.

Of supreme chemical powers. [R.] "The archchemic sun." Milton.

Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.

The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.

The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.

e; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning.

scensions from the stomach. Sir T. Browne. Ascension Day, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday. -- Right ascension (Astron.), that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, wh…

oon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.

That which is assumed; an assumption. [Obs.] The sun of all your assumpts is this. Chillingworth.

The investigation of the relation between the sun, moon, and stars, and the weather. -- As`*tro*me`te*or`o*log"ic*al, a. -- As`tro*me`te*or*ol"o*gist, n.

The application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars.

The determination of the brightness of stars, and also of the sun, moon, and planets. --As`tro*pho`to*met"ric*al (#), a.

Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.

In twain; asunder. [Obs. or Poetic] "Cuts atwain the knots." Tennyson.

In two; in twain; asunder. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A halo, actual or figurative. The glorious aureole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses. Proctor. The aureole of young womanhood. O. W. Holmes.

The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies.