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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays 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.

Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness.

That man that sits within a monarch’s heart,
And ripens in the

sunshine

of his favor.

Shakespeare

Adj.

Sunshiny; bright.

Shak.

“Sunshine hours.”

Keble.

Noun.

[sun and shine.] The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, or the place where they fall.

But all sunshine, as when his beams at noon

Culminate from th' equator.

A place warmed and illuminated; warmth; illumination.

The man that sits within a monarch's heart,

And ripens in the sunshine of his favor.