Sunless
(Sun"less) a. Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.
The sunken glen whose sunless shrubs must weep.
Byron. Sunlight
(Sun"light`) n. The light of the sun. Milton.
Sunlike
(Sun"like`) a. Like or resembling the sun. "A spot of sunlike brilliancy." Tyndall.
Sunlit
(Sun"lit`) a. Lighted by the sun.
Sunn
(Sunn) n. [Hind. san, fr. Skr. çana.] (Bot.) An East Indian leguminous plant (Crotalaria
juncea) and its fiber, which is also called sunn hemp. [Written also sun.]
Sunna
(||Sun"na) n. [Ar. sunnah rule, law.] A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans
as of equal authority with the Koran.
Sunniah
(Sun"ni*ah) n. One of the sect of Sunnites.
Sunniness
(Sun"ni*ness) n. The quality or state of being sunny.
Sunnite
(Sun"nite) n. One of the orthodox Mohammedans who receive the Sunna as of equal importance
with the Koran.
Sunnud
(Sun"nud) n. [Hind., fr. Ar. sanad.] A charter or warrant; also, a deed of gift. [India]
Sunny
(Sun"ny) a. [Compar. Sunnier ; superl. Sunniest.]
1. Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant; radiant.
"Sunny beams." Spenser. "Sunny locks." Shak.
2. Exposed to the rays of the sun; brightened or warmed by the direct rays of the sun; as, a sunny room; the
sunny side of a hill.
Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores.
Addison. 3. Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition.
My decayed fair
A sunny look of his would soon repair.
Shak. Sunny
(Sun"ny), n. (Zoöl.) See Sunfish (b).
Sunproof
(Sun"proof`) a. Impervious to the rays of the sun. "Darksome yew, sunproof." Marston.
Sunrise
(Sun"rise` Sun"ris`ing), n.
1. The first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning; more generally, the time of such
appearance, whether in fair or cloudy weather; as, to begin work at sunrise. "The tide of sunrise swells."
Keble.
2. Hence, the region where the sun rises; the east.
Which were beyond Jordan toward the sunrising.
Deut. iv. 47 (Rev. Ver.)
Full hot and fast the Saxon rides, with rein of travel slack,
And, bending o'ev his saddle, leaves the sunrise
at his back.
Whittier. Sunset
(Sun"set" Sun"set`ting), n.
