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Sun

noun
1.
The star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system.  "The Earth revolves around the Sun"
2.
The rays of the sun.  Synonyms: sunlight, sunshine.
3.
A person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc.
4.
Any star around which a planetary system revolves.
5.
First day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians.  Synonyms: Dominicus, Lord's Day, Sunday.
verb
(past & past part. sunned; pres. part. sunning)
1.
Expose one's body to the sun.  Synonym: sunbathe.
2.
Expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun.  Synonyms: insolate, solarise, solarize.  "These herbs suffer when sunned"



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"Sun" Quotes from Famous Books



... on a summer's afternoon, A wee afore the sun gaed down, A lassie, wi' a braw new gown, Cam' ower the hills to Gowrie. The rose-bud, wash'd in summer's shower, Bloom'd fresh within the sunny bower; But Kitty was the fairest flower That e'er was seen ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... from a long, refreshing sleep and happy dreams. Marit had been lying on the cliff, throwing leaves down on him; he had caught them and tossed them back again, so they had gone up and down in a thousand colors and forms; the sun was shining, and the whole cliff glittered beneath its rays. On awaking Oyvind looked around to find them all gone; then he remembered the day before, and the burning, cruel pain in his heart began at once. "This, ...
— A Happy Boy • Bjornstjerne Bjornson

... Tennyson, Browning, Emerson, or Lowell, will teach one a new language, by which he may converse with the wind, talk with the birds, chat with the brook, speak with the flowers, and hold discourse with the sun, moon, and stars. The deepest and mightiest thoughts of all ages have been expressed in poetry, the language of nature. "Poetry," says Coleridge, "is the blossom and fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, passions, ...
— Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes • J. M. Judy

... a flash of that high feeling and untarnished integrity which are seldom so beautifully impressive as when exhibited in the honorable indignation of old age. It might have been compared to that pale but angry red of the winter sky which flashes so transiently over the snow-clad earth, when the sun, after the fatigues of his short but chilly journey, is about to sink from our sight at the close ...
— The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton

... is parched in the burning sun And the grass is scorched and white. But the sand is passed, and the march is done, We are camping here to-night. I sit in the shade of the Temple walls, While the cadenced water evenly falls, And a peacock out of the Jungle calls To another, on yonder ...
— India's Love Lyrics • Adela Florence Cory Nicolson (AKA Laurence Hope), et al.


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