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See Sunn.

See Sun star, under Sun.

A circle or cluster of gas-burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings.

Dried by the heat of the sun. "Sun-dried brick." Sir T. Herbert.

Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; as, sun-struck soldiers.

A beam or ray of the sun. "Evening sunbeams." Keble. Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even On a sunbeam. Milton.

The sun bittern.

A glimpse or flash of the sun. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

beyond the face, and commonly having a cape, -- worn by women as a protection against the sun.

A rainbow; an iris. Byron.

To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.

Sunburn; tan. Boyle.

A burst of sunlight.

A yellow flowered evening primrose (Taraxia, syn. Onothera, ovata) native of California.

Sunbeam. [R.] Mrs. Hemans.

ular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day. Advent Sunday, Low Sunday, Passion Sunday, etc. See under Advent, Low, etc.

To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends. It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. Carew.

Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.

trument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate. Sundial shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the genus Solarium. See Solarium.

A luminous spot occasionally seen a few degrees from the sun, supposed to be formed by the intersection of two or more halos, or in a manner similar to that of halos.