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imp. & p. p. of Sing.

ss for producing heat by converging the sun's rays into a focus. "Lighting a cigar with a sunglass." Hawthorne.

A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.

A viceroy or governor-general, the highest provincial official in China, with civil and military authority over one or more provinces.

The board or department of foreign affairs in the Chinese government. See Yamen.

In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response.

Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.

in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.

With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by

Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.

Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv.

An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the other, named antistrophe, in returning from west to east; then they stood before the altar, and sang the epode, which was the last part of the song. Abp. Potter.

Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apoplectic songs or hymns.

A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.

t night in succeeding years. The angelic song in Bethlehem field, On thy birthnight, that sung thee Savior born. Milton.

To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley.

ren in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened. I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bopeep, And go the fools among. Shak.