Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; as, sun-struck soldiers.

A beam or ray of the sun.

Any one of numerous species of small brilliantly colored birds of the family Nectariniidae, native of Africa, Southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia. In external appearance and habits they somewhat resemble humming birds, but they are true singing birds (Oscines). The sun bittern.

A glimpse or flash of the sun.

A bonnet, generally made of some thin or light fabric, projecting beyond the face, and commonly having a cape, -- worn by women as a protection against the sun.

A rainbow; an iris.

The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun; tan.

Sunburn; tan.

A burst of sunlight.

A yellow flowered evening primrose (Taraxia ovata, syn. Oenothera ovata) native of California.

Sunbeam.

Belonging to the Christian Sabbath.

To expose to the sun and wind.

Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.

An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate.

A luminous spot occasionally seen a few degrees from the sun, supposed to be formed by the intersection of two or more halos, or in a manner similar to that of halos.

The setting of the sun; sunset.

A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

Many different or small things; sundry things.

In sundry ways; variously.

Any one of the several species of Kneiffia, esp. Kneiffia fruticosa (syn. Oenothera fruticosa), of the Evening-primrose family, having flowers that open by daylight.

Several; divers; more than one or two; various.

One who deals in sundries, or a variety of articles.

A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail. Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (Lepomis pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (Lepomis auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish. The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner. The opah. The basking, or liver, shark. Any large jellyfish.

Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.

imp. p. p. of Sing.

A convex lens of glass for producing heat by converging the sun's rays into a focus.

A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.

imp. p. p. of Sink.

Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.

Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.

The light of the sun.

Like or resembling the sun.

Lighted by the sun.

An East Indian leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea) and its fiber, which is also called sunn hemp.

A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.

One of the sect of Sunnites.

The quality or state of being sunny.

One of the orthodox Mohammedans who receive the Sunna as of equal importance with the Koran.

A charter or warrant; also, a deed of gift.

See Sunfish (b).

Impervious to the rays of the sun.

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.

a panel in the roof of an automobile, usually above the driver's seat, that can be opened.

The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively.

Anything used as a protection from the sun's rays. A small parasol. An awning.

Sunshiny; bright.

Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day.

Any large jellyfish.

Solstice.

Aventurine feldspar. See under Aventurine.

Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil.

Sunrise.

Toward the sun.

In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward.

To treat with supper.

Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush.

A super.

A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2.

Capable of being overcome or conquered; surmountable.

The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.

Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; redundant; as, superabundant zeal.

Acidulated to excess.

To add over and above; to add to what has been added; to annex, as something extrinsic.

The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously.

Coming upon; coming in addition to, or in assistance of, something.

The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it.

A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.

Superior to the angels in nature or rank.

To last beyond the year; -- said of annual plants.

The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude.

Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade.

To make (a person) haughty.

A bicarbonate.

Bicarbureted.

An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.

Situated above, or in the upper part of, the carpus.

Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven.

A bearing charged upon another bearing.

Above or beyond chemistry; inexplicable by chemical laws.

Deceit; fraud; imposition.

Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.

Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior.

The eyebrow, or the region of the eyebrows.

The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.

Superfetation.

Remote consequence.

That which grows upon another growing thing; a parasite.

Growing on some other growing thing.

Same as Supracretaceous.

Excessively curious or inquisitive.

The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.

See Dreadnought, above.

The quality or state of being supereminent; distinguished eminence; as, the supereminence of Cicero as an orator, or Lord Chatham as a statesman.

Eminent in a superior degree; surpassing others in excellence; as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ.

Supererogatory.

To do more than duty requires; to perform works of supererogation; to atone (for a dificiency in another) by means of a surplus action or quality.

The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires.

Supererogatory.

Performed to an extent not enjoined, or not required, by duty or necessity; as, supererogatory services.

Essential above others, or above the constitution of a thing.

More than ethical; above ethics.

To exalt to a superior degree; to exalt above others.

Elevation above the common degree.

Superior excellence; extraordinary excellence.

Excellent in an uncommon degree; very excellent.

Excessive, or more than normal, excitation.

Something growing superfluously.

A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.

Fertilization of two ova, at the same menstruation, by two different acts of coition.

Superabundant fecundity or multiplication of the species.

To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring.

The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation.

To conceive (another fetus) after a former conception.

A superficies.

Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage.

One who attends to anything superficially; a superficial or shallow person; a sciolist; a smatterer.

The quality or state of being superficial; also, that which is superficial.

To attend to, or to treat, superficially, or in a shallow or slighting way.

Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; superficial.