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Sun

noun

The star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system. "The Earth revolves around the Sun"

The rays of the sun. Synonyms: sunlight, sunshine.

A person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc.

Any star around which a planetary system revolves.

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)

Expose one's body to the sun. Synonym: sunbathe.

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

... consequence of our escape, had made from the ruins in the Forest, taken to their ship along with the Treasure, and left the Spy to pick up what intelligence he could. In the evening we went away, and he was left hanging to the tree, all alone, with the red sun making a kind of a dead sunset on ...

— The Perils of Certain English Prisoners • Charles Dickens

... loved to open her door and surprise the east. She stepped out the next morning to fill her pail. There was a lake of translucent cloud beyond the water lake: the first unruffled, and the second wind-stirred. The sun pushed up, a flattened red ball, from the lake of steel ripples to the lake of calm clouds. Nearer, a schooner with its sails down stood black as ebony between two bars of light drawn across the water, which lay dull and bleak ...

— The Chase Of Saint-Castin And Other Stories Of The French In The New World • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... From the time the ship lost sight of Staten Land, we had heavy weather, with hard gales from the southward and westward; and we had the utmost difficulty in making our southing. Observations now became a very difficult matter, the sun being invisible for a week at a time. The marine instinct of Noah, at this crisis, was of the last importance to all on board. He gave us the cheering assurance, however, from time to time, that we were going south, although the mates declared that they knew not where ...

— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper

... the clouds to shape themselves into ethical forms, or the sun to shine only on the just and not on the unjust also. It is vain to expect it, but there is something written about the heavens declaring the beauty of the Creator and the firmament showing His handiwork. If the artist can bring whatever ...

— Imaginations and Reveries • (A.E.) George William Russell

... of fortune, and give him something to do. Give him an oil-rag and let him rub some of our brass, and stow his own. And, bo'sun!" ...

— We and the World, Part II. (of II.) - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing

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