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s 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.

as 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.

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

he next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.

hange gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind. The sound developed itself into a real compound. J. Peile. All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed. Owen.…

r of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine.

The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.

To be exosed to too much light. [Obs.] Flaring in sunshine all the day. Prior.

ndshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay.

a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday. Milton.

One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine.

nt of health." Bacon. But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day Marlowe. The law of nature doth now require of necessity some kind of regiment. Hocker.

Sunshine; fair weather. Be it fair or foul, or rain or shine. Dryden.

ing hook, under Reap. When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shak.

ll piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap. We have often little snatches of sunshine. Spectator. Leave me your snatches, and yield me a direct answer. Shak.

hat has occured; nevertheless; -- sometimes used as a conjunction. See Synonym of But. As sunshine, broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still. Moore.

The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine. Lambs that did frisk in the sun. Shak.