Old English | n | English |
Such | adv | To so extreme a degree; "he is such a baby.; such folk. |
Such | adj | Of so extreme a degree or extent; "such grief"; "such beauty". 2.of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; his misery was such. 3. having the particular quality or character specified. 4. the same that; -- with as; as, at such time. 5. certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned. |
Such | prn | "Such" used as a pronoun: "He was the father of such as dwell in tents". 2. "Such" is used emphatically, without the correlative: "I shall have such life". |
Such | phr | "As Such" - as being of what is indicated or named. |
Such | phr | "Such a One" - such a person or such a thing. 2. some person or thing unspecified. |
Such | phr | "Such and Such" - such or such, certain; some, as already particularized in one way or another, or as being of one kind or another. 3. a particular kind but one not needing to be specified; a certain kind (but not defined); this or that. "In such and such a place ". 2. a person of thing of the kind not needing to be specified. |
Such | phr | "Such and Such a Man" - a particular, a given, man. |
Such | phr | "Such As It Is" - despite its shortcomings. 2. it/they are poor/unsatisfactory. |
Such | phr | "Such Is Life" - that's what life is like; that's life. 2. like isn't always fair and/or equitable. |
Such | phr | "Such or Such" = such and such. |
Such | phr | "Such That" - indicates extent; to the extent that; 'the attack was so brutal, such that he was rendered unconscious and remembers nothing further of the incident. |
Such-and-such | adj | To such an extent; so much that. |
Such-and-suchness | n | The quality of being so-and-so. |
Such-a-thing | n | A thing-ma-bob. |
Such like | adj | Of a like or similar kind. 2. of such a kind; similar. |
Such-like | prn | Person or things of that kind. |
Suchly | adv | In such a manner; thus. |
Suchness | n | The quality or condition of being so. |
Suchwise | adv | In such a manner. |
Suck | vb | To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth tongue and; as, to specific., to draw milk from the mother; to draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, as first nourished by sucking.. 2. to draw in, or imbibe, absorb by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air. 3. to draw or drain. 4. to draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. 5. to suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction. 6. to suck up, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction or absorption. 7. to draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube. 8. to be objectionable, of very poor quality, or offensive; as, telemarketing calls at meal-time really suck. |
Suck | n | The act of drawing with the mouth. 2. that which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; a mother's milk. 3. a small draught.( Coll). 4. juice; succulence. 5. a whirlpool or eddy. |
Suck | phr | Give Suck" - of a mother suckling her offspring. |
Suck | phr | "Suck and Blow" - In Canada, Britain, slang, idiomatic, to perform two incompatible actions; to hold views which are in contradiction. 2. blow hot and cold. |
Suck | phr | "Suck and See" - discover experimentally how something works. |
Suck | phr | "Suck Down" - draw pull down, below the surface of something. 2. suck under. |
Suck | phr | "Suck Dry" - exhaust the contents of a bottle, breast, etc. 2. exhaust a person's sympathy, resources. |
Suck | phr | "Suck In" - engulf smother, drown in a sucking action. 2. involve a person in an unethical activity or enterprise, especially against his or her will. 3. to be taken in, deceived, tricked, and one who is gulled is said to be a sucker. |
Suck | phr | "Suck Into" - to cause somebody to become slowly more and more involved in a business or situation that is often not to that person's liking. |
Suck | phr | "Suck It" - to rebuke or dismiss. |
Suck | phr | "Suck It Up" - to put up with something, to deal with something such as as pain or misfortune without complaining. 2. bear you plight, stand tall, be a man , grin and bear it, deal with it. |
Suck | phr | "Suck and See" - try it out (used often as a derisive retort. |
Suck | phr | "Suck Out" - draw out liquids by sucking. |
Suck | phr | "Suck Up" - draw liquid etc up a tube by making a vacuum at its upper end. |
Suck | phr | "Suck Up to (Somebody)" - behave, obsequiously especially for one's own advantage. 2. fawn on, flatter somebody in the hope of favor. |
Suck | phr | "Teach One's Grandmother How to Suck Eggs" - try to tell a much more experienced person something very obvious to them. |
Suck-egg | n | An animal repute to suck eggs, such as a weasel. 2. word used to designate a dog regarded as a type of viciousness or worthlessness. |
Sucken | n | (Var. of soken; orig. "resort" (to a particular mill). 2. the duty and liability of tenants within a district astricted to a mill. 3. the lands astricted to a mill; also, the population of such lands. 4. the area of a baillifs jurisdiction: the district within which one practises or carries on business. |
Suckener | n | One who has his corn grounded at a certain mill. |
Sucker | n | A young mammal before its is weaned; a suckling pig. 2. one who sucks with the mouth. 3. a shoot found growing at the base of a tree. 4. (fig.) reference to the withdrawal of the nourishment from the parent stem. 5. organ adapted for sucking or absorbing nourishment by suction. 6. a pipe or tube through which anything is drawn. 7. a part of an organ adapted for adhering to an object. 8. (slang) a greenhorn, a simpleton. 9. a blood sucker: an extortionist, blackmailer. |
Sucker | phr | "A Sucker For" - one who is easily duped. |
Suckerdom | n | The sate of being being a sucker, gullible person. 2. the world or sphere of a sucker. |
Suckered | adj | Eqipped with a sucker or suckers. |
Suckerfish | n | The suckstone; the sucking-stone; suckfish, sucking-fish, remora. |
Suckerhood | n | The state of being a sucker or gullible person. |
Suckerish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a sucker of an animal. 2. gullible, easily taken advantage of. |
Suckerlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a sucker (a sucking organ or body part). |
Sucker-up | n | Sycophancy, cajoling, kidding. |
Suck-hole | n | A whirlpool. |
Suck-in | n | A swindle, hoax, deception, fiasco. |
Suckiness | n | The state or condition of being sucky, inferiority, or badness. |
Sucking | n | The drawing of liquid from by the action of the mouth tongue and; as, to specific., the drawing of milk from the mother; the drawing of milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, as first nourished by sucking.. 2. the drawing, or imbibing, the absorbing by any process resembles sucking; the inhaling; to absorbing; as, the sucking of in air. 3. (Of a child or animal, etc) not yet weaned. 4. unfledged (sucking dove). |
Sucking-bone | n | Marrow-bone. |
Suckingly | adv | With a sucking sound or motion. |
Sucking-tooth | n | Milk tooth. |
Suckle | vb | Suck milk from the mother's breasts. 2: give suck to; breastfeed, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate; to nurse; to give suck to; to nurse at the breast. |
Suckle | n. | A teat. (Obs.) |
Suckle | n | Clover. |
Suckless | adj | That does not suck or suckle. |
Suckling | n | An unweaned child or animal. |
Suckling | phr | "Out of the Mouth of Sucklings" - (as sometimes indiscreetly revealed): the truth. |
Suckly | adv | Tending to, apt to, prone to or succulent. |
Suck rocks | n | A term of general disparagement; an emphatic version of suck(s). |
Suckstone | n | The sucking-stone; suckfish, sucking-fish, remora. |
Suck-up | n | Toady, creep, sucker-up. |
Suckworthy | adj | Worthless or inferior; sucky. |
Sucky | adj | (Slang) being something which sucks, which is unpleasant or inferior. |
Sullow | n | A plough; a sull. 2. a plot of land described as so (in measure) as many sullow. |
Sum | sfx | A connecting particle used with relative pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs, becomes a kind of separable suffix equal to "ever." |
Summer | n | The warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox. 2. the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty; "the golden summer of his life". 3. the season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year. |
Summer | vb | Spend the summer; "We summered in Australia". 2. to keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock. |
Summer | phr | "One Swallow Doesn't Make a Summer" - much further evidence is desirable before any action is taken. |
Summer | phr | "Summer and Winter" - to extend periods of time with. 2. to endure. |
Summer | phr | "Summer of Love" - The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. |
Summer fallow | n | Land not cropped and plowed, etc., during the summer, in order to pulverize the soil and kill the weeds. |
Summer-fold | n | A freckle, a lentuga. |
Summerful | adj | Enough to fill a summer. |
Summer-house | n | A light building in a garden used for sitting in fine weather. |
Summerily | adv | In a manner reminiscent of summer. |
Summering | vb | To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Turkey. |
Summerish | adj | Suggestive of resembling of summer. |
Summer kitchen | n | A kitchen in a separate building or in a separate room attached for use in hot weather. |
Summerless | adj | Having no summer. |
Summer lightning | n | Lightning unaccompanied by thunder resulting from a distance storm. |
Summer-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of summer. |
Summerliness | n | The quality or state of being like summer. |
Summerlong | adj | Extending throughout a summer. |
Summerly | adj | Taking place or occurring during summer. 2. having the quality or conditions of summer, summery, summer-like. |
Summer melt | n | The phenomenon of prospective college students' motivation to attend college 'melting away' during the summer before the end of high school and beginning of college. |
Summerness | n | The state or characteristic of being summer. |
Summer reading | n | Designating reading matter that is suitable for the summer or for summer holidays, esp. works of fiction that offer light diversion. |
Summer school | n | A course of lectures etc held during the summer holidays, especially at a university . 2. U.S. a course of remedial or accelerating classes held in the summer. |
Summer's day | n | A day of summer. |
Summer-soothed | adj | Soothed by the warmth of summer. |
Summer-stirring | adj | Summer fallow; |
Summer-stricken | adj | Adversely affected by the heat and humidity of summer weather. |
Summer sweet | n | Clethra alnifolia, a deciduous flowering shrub of eastern North America. |
Summertide | n | The summer season; summertime. |
Summer-tilth | n | Fallowed land. |
Summertime | n | The season or period of summer; summertide. |
Summer time | n | Time as advanced one hour ahead of standard time for daylight saving in summer, especially British Summer Time. |
Summerwear | n | Clothes designed to be worn in summer. |
Summerweight | n | Of clothes suitable for use in summer, especially because of their light weight. |
Summerwood | n | The later growth of an annual ring. the cells have smaller cavities, thicker walls, and produce harder, denser, and darker wood than the spring wood in most species. |
Summer-work | n | Summer fallow. |
Summery | adj | Pertaining to resembling summer: warm and much light. |
Sun | n | The star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system. 2. the rays of the sun; 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: Sunday, Lord's Day. 3. the luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. 4. any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs. 5. the direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine. 6. that which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation. 7. sea candle: a kenning for the sun, rising with light from and setting in the sea. 8. synonyms: eye of the day, eye of heaven, eye of the morning. |
Sun | vb | To expose one's body to the light and heat of the sun; to sunbathe. 2. to expose to the light or the heat of the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun. 3. to warm or dry something in the sun. |
Sun | n | Synonyms and/or kennings: day-candle, dew-drier, eye of the day, god's candle, king of the day, rodor-candle, weather-candle, world-candle, wyncandle, seacandle. |
Sun | phr | "Against the Sun" - anticlockwise. |
Sun | phr | "Make Hay While the Sun Shines" - to take advantage of the opportunity. 2. to strike while the iron is hot. |
Sun | phr | "More Worship the Rising than the Setting Sun" - more people pay honor to ascendant than to fallen greatness. The saying is attributed to Pompey. |
Sun | phr | "One's Sun Is Set" - the time of one's prosperity is over. |
Sun | phr | "On Which the Sun Never Sets" - said of the British Empire and the large landmass it once ruled over. |
Sun | phr | "Out of God's Blessing into the Warm Sun" - from good to less good or far inferior state. (a proverb of Ray) |
Sun | phr | "Shoot the Sun" - ascertain the altitude of the sun with a sextant in order to fix the latitude. |
Sun | phr | "Southern Gate of the Sun" - the sign Capricorn or winter solstice. So called because it is the most southern limit of the sun's course in the ecliptic. |
Sun | phr | "Sun is Over the Yardarm" - an expression by naval officers that it is time for a drink. |
Sun | phr | "Sun of Righteousness" - Jesus Christ. |
Sun | phr | "Sun Oneself" - sunbathe. |
Sun | phr | "Sun Shines on All Alike" - all are 'equal' under the sun. |
Sun | phr | "Three Things Cannot Long Be Hidden, The Sun, The Moon and The Truth" - the truth will eventually prevail. |
Sun | phr | "Under (or beneath) the Sun" - anywhere in the world or on earth, worldwide. |
Sun | phr | "With the Sun" - clockwise. |
Sunback | n | Having a low-cut back on a dress or frock to allow tanning and coolness. |
Sun-backed | adj | Of a dress, frock etc having a sunback. |
Sun bake | n | (Of a person skin or the surface of a thing): drying, hardening or baking from the heat of the sun. |
Sunbaked | adj | Baked by overexposure to the sun. |
Sun bath | n | A period of exposing the body to the sun. |
Sun-bathe | vb | Bask in the sun, especially to tan the body. |
Sunbather | n | One who sunbakes. |
Sunbathing | n | The activity of sunbathing. |
Sun beam | n | A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight. 2. (Australia, colloquial, dated) an item of cutlery or crockery laid out on a table, but not used, and which can be returned to the drawer without being washed. 3. any butterfly of the genus Curetis. 4. any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis |
Sun bear | n | A small black bear Helarctos malayanus of south east Asia, with a light colored mark on its chest. |
Sunbed | n | A lightweight usually folding chair with aseat long enough to support the legs, used for sunbathing. 2. a bed for lying under a sun lamp. |
Sun beetle | n | Any of the genus Pachnoda of beetles. |
Sunbelt | n | A geographical area of the southern United states that include those states , particularly Florida, Arizona, and new Mexico, that have relatively milder weather than the rest of the country all year round, and tend to attract retired people and those who prefer subtropical to temperate climates. |
Sunberry | n | The currant. |
Sunbird | n | Any small bright-plumed Old World bird of the family Nectariniidae, resembling a humming-bird. |
Sun-blasted | adj | Hot, very hot, as 'sun-blasted-days and bone-chilling nights. |
Sunbleached | adj | Bleeched or whitened by the effects of the sun. |
Sun blight | n | Damage to a plant, especially a fruit tree, caused by exposure to strong sunlight; specifically = "sun"(now rare). |
Sun blind | n | A movable shade for protecting the windows of houses and shops etc from the sun. |
Sun-blinded | adj | Temporary blinded by the rays of the sun. |
Sun blush | n | Of tomatoes, partially sundried. |
Sun-blushed | adj | Of tomatoes, partially sun-dried. 2. of cheeks slightly reddened by the rays of the sun. |
Sunbow | n | A rainbow formed by the sun, as aopposed to a lunar or moonbow. 2. a spectrum of colors like a rainbow produced by the sun shining on spray of a waterfall. |
Sun-break | n | The breaking forth of the sun at sunrise. |
Sunbright | adj | Having a brightness that rivals the sun, as a sunbright mind or very high intellect. 2. flood with sunlight. |
Sun-brown | n | The color of a person's skin tanned by the exposure to the sun. |
Sun-browned | adj | Of person's skin tanned by the exposure to the sun. |
Sunburn | n | darkening or reddening and inflammation of the skin caused by over-exposure to the sun. 2. |
Sunburn | vb | To darken or reddening the skin caused by over-exposure to the sun 2. suffer from sunburn. |
Sun-burned | adj | Suffering from sunburn; brown or tanned. |
Sunburnt | adj | Sun-tanned. 2. bright of aspect, feeling, manner. |
Sunburst | n | Something resembling the sun and its rays, especially an ornament, brooch. 2. a firework or pyrotechnic. 3. the sun shining suddenly from behind rifted clouds. |
Suncare | n | The branch of skincare dealing with protection against the effects of the sun. |
Sunday | n | The day of the week after Saturday, regarded as a day of worship by Christians. 2. a newspaper published on Sunday. |
Sunday | phr | "As Long as a Month of Sundays." - a very long time. |
Sunday | phr | "Not in a Month of Sundays" - an extremely long time. |
Sunday | phr | "Wear One's Sunday Best" - wear one's best clothes or attire usu. keep to wear on Sunday to church. 2. "Sunday's going-outs". |
Sunday | phr | "Sunday of the Five Loaves" - Mothering Sunday, a day of honor of mothers, and/or one's mother church which falls on a Sunday three weeks before Easter Sunday. |
Sunday best | n | One best clothes kept for wearing on Sunday. |
Sunday board | n | A format of comic strip containing a large number of frames, always filling a whole page, usually in large quantities and in color; ( also some are in black and white). |
Sunday driver | n | A person who drives chiefly at weekends , especially slowly or unskillfully. |
Sunday-go-to-the-meeting | n | Best (of clothes or manners). |
Sunday house | n | In the German immigrant culture of Texas Hill country, and of the houses erected by farming settlers for overnight stays while visiting towns for supplies and church (Sunday house) attendance. |
Sundayish | adj | Sunday-like. |
Sunday-like | adj | Resembling a Sunday or some aspect of one, especially the religious observance and abstinence from work on the Christian Sabbath. |
Sundays | adv | On Sunday; each Sunday. |
Sunday school | n | A school for religious instructions of children on Sundays. |
Sunder | vb | To separate, divide, to come apart |
Sunder | phr | "In Sunder" - apart. |
Sunder | phr | "Sunder Out" - to separate or set apart from others; split out; segregate. 2. to apportion; allot; assign. quotations 3. to remove a piece of something from the whole; separate out. 4. to break out; divide or scatter about |
Sunderwood | n | A dark red brown wood, with faint black streaks growing in India (Heritera fomes, Heritera Minor). |
Sundered | adj | Separated, broken apart, parted. 2. exposed to the wind and/or sun. 3. different, not similar to, unalike. |
Sunderer | n | One who sunder, separates or takes apart. |
Sundering | adj | Severally. |
Sunderlepes | adv | Separately; apart from the rest, severally; esp. particularly. |
Sunderling | adv} | Separately. |
Sunderly | adv | Severally, separately, apart from, individually, singularly, widely, differently, in a dispersed manner. |
Sunderly | adj | Peculiar, special, private. 2. separate, several, distinct, diverse, different. |
Sunderness | n | Diversity, variety. |
Sunderwise | adv | Asunderly, separately. |
Sundew | n | Any small insect-consuming bog plant of the family Droseraceae, especially of the genus drosera, with hairs secreting drops of moisture on which insects are caught. |
Sun dog | n | Parhelion or mock sun in the form of a very bright spot of light on the solar halo. 2. a small rainbow lying near the horizon. |
Sundown | n | The going of the sun; glow of the setting sun; sunset, as opposed to sun-up. 2. a broad-brimmed hat worn by women. |
Sundowner | n | In Australia, a person, esp. a swagman, who arrives at sundown in the knowledge that the evening meal is about to be dished. 2. a strict, rigidly uncompromising ship officer; originally a ship's captain who granted liberty only until sundown. 3. in colonial Africa and India a drink taken after sundown. 4. in the USA., an official who works late into the night at the office. |
Sun-downing | n | The activity of sundowning. |
Sundown Town | n | Also known as sunset towns or gray towns, are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States that practice a form of segregation by enforcing restrictions excluding people of non-white races via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation, and violence |
Sun-drenched | adj | Receiving lots of sunshine; sunny. |
Sundried | adj | Dried by the exposure to the sun, as vegetation. 2. dried up, parched by the sun. |
Sundries | n | Small articles of a miscellaneous kind; especially, small items lumped together in an account as not needing individual mention. |
Sundrily | adj | Separate, individual, special. 2. diverse, various. |
Sundrily | adv | Severally, diversely, variously. |
Sundriness | n | Diversity, variety, a variety of things. |
Sundrops | n | Any of several American species of evening primrose (genus: Oenothera) having large yellow flowers, and blooming in daylight. |
Sundry | n | Miscellaneous small things. |
Sundry | adj | Miscellaneous, various. |
Sundry | adv | Separately, apart, severally, individually. 2. of a single object (or anything so consider); in or into pieces. |
Sundry | phr | "All and Sundry". - everybody, everything, in all classes; one and all. 2. all collectively and individually. |
Sundry-fold | adv | In a manifold manner; diversely, variously. |
Sundry-hood | n | Diversity, variety. |
Sundry-man | n | A dealer in sundries or a variety or articles. |
Sundry-shaped | adj | Diverse, manifold in shape. |
Sundry-shop | n | In Malaysia a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese food. |
Sundry-where | adv | In various place. |
Sundry-wise | adj | Various or different views, variously, diversely, in sundry ways. |
Sun-dust | n | Motes, small particles, dust in a sunbeam; sun-dusted. |
Sunegild | n | A female sinner, sinegild. |
Sun-eye | n | The sun; the eye of the day. |
Sunfall | n | Sunset, nightfall, dusk. |
Sunfast | adj | Of dye not subject to fading by sunlight. 2 color fast in a way that will not fade in the sun. |
Sunfastness | n | The degree or quality of being sunfast. |
Sun-filled | adj | Full of sunshine. |
Sun finger | n | (In palmistry) the third finger along the hand that represents certainty, good fortune and success. |
Sunfish | n | Any of the various fish of rounded form or brilliant appearance, especially a very large ocean fish (a species of shark), Mola mola, with a circular laterally flattened body. It basks in the sun near the surface of the water. |
Sun-flooded | adj | Flooded with the rays of the Sun. |
Sun fly | n | The Heteromyzidae (formerly Heleomyzidae) are small to largish flies usually occuring in temperate or wet forests. Borboroides are small heteromyzids, resembling lesser dung flies (Sphaeroceridae), that are associated with wombats and can be found at their fresh dung - these have been appropriately coined Wombat flies. |
Sun-glass | n | A burning glass; a glass used for the concentrating the rays of the sun. |
Sun glasses | n | Tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from sunlight. |
Sun-glow | n | The rose tint or faint yellow of the sky the precedes sunrise or follows sunset. 2. the warm glow of the sun. |
Sun grass | n | Cogon grass, Imperata cylindrica. |
Sun-heated | adj | Heated or warmed by the sun. |
Sunglow | n | A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset. |
Sun-god | n | The sun regarded or personified and worshiped as a god. 2. a god identified as specially associated with the sun. |
Sun-go-down | n | Sunset, sundown, dusk, sun-sitting, sun-going-down. |
Sun-goldened | adj | Made a golden or rich yellow shade by the rays of the sun. |
Sun-go-up | n | Dawn, sunrise. |
Sun hat | n | A large, wide-brimmed hat worn to protect the head from the sun. |
Sun-hatted | adj | Having or wearing a sunhat. |
Sun-helmet | n | A helmet of cork etc formerly worn, to protect the face, by white people in hot climates. |
Sunhood | n | A hood which shelters something (such as a person's head, a camera, or an office building) from direct sunlight. |
Sun-hot | adj | Extremely hot; red-hot. |
Sunk | adj | (Slang) in a difficult position; in a sorry plight. 2. recessed, a part lying below the face of the framing. |
Sunk bead | n | One not at the edge of the material, and slightly below the surface. |
Sunken | adj | That has been sunk; lying at the bottom of the water; below the proper level; hence fallen in a hollow. 2. located beneath the surface, submerged. 3. lower than the surroundings or usual level(as a sunken garden) 4. (of the eyes, cheeks etc) hollow, depressed. |
Sunken-chested | adj | A congenital deformity of the anterior wall of the chest, in which several ribs and the sternum grow abnormally, giving a caved or sunken appearance |
Sunken-floor | n | The space of the living room, while on a lower level than the kitchen and dining area, feels open and inviting, even with the hardness of exposed structure and concrete flooring. |
Sunkenly | adv | In a sunken way. |
Sunk shelf | n | A plate shelf. 2. a recess is formed near the back of the shelf to receive piece of crockery, such as a plate, vertically, so that it rests against the wall. |
Sun-kiss | n | A freckle. |
Sun-kissed | adj | Warm of affected by the sun. |
Sun leaf | n | A mature and healthy tree will have many thousands of leaves, all of which need sunlight to be able to make energy for the plant through photosynthesis. Shade leaves are larger and thinner than normal sun leaves, and often appear a darker green (they contain more chlorophyll). |
Sunless | adj | Destitute of sun or sun rays; not illumined by the sun. 2. dark, dull, cheerless. |
Sunlessly | adv | Without sun. |
Sunlessness | n | The condition of being sunless or an absence of sunlight. |
Sunlight | n | Light from the sun. |
Sunlighting | n | The amount of illumination provided by the sun. 2. working at another job when taking time off from one's regular (day) job. 2. the daytime equivalent of moonlighting. |
Sunlights | n | The lighter coloring of hair in the summertime due to exposure to sunlight. |
Sunlike | adj | Like or resembling the sun, or that of the sun; esp. very bright or resplendent. |
Sunline | n | The navigator's observation of the sun to determine latitude. |
Sunliness | n | The state of being illuminated by the sun; or full of sunshine. |
Sunlit | adj | Lighted up by the sun. |
Sunlit uplands | n | A wished-for place of happiness and prosperity. |
Sunlock | n | Hollock (Terminalia myriocarpia) a grayish brown wood with beautiful dark striation, lustrous. |
Sun lover | n | One who likes being in the sun and living in sunny regions. |
Sun-loving | adj | Favoring, tending to or liking og living in sunny/and or tropical climates. |
Sunly | adj | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the sun; solar. 2. (by extension, and in contrast with moonly) sane. |
Sunly | adv | In a sunny manner; optimistically. |
Sun-mote | n | Dust in a sunbeam. |
Sunnight | n | Sunday evening or night. |
Sunnily | adv | In a sunny fashion; optimistically. |
Sunniness | n | The state of being sunny. |
Sunning | n | Exposure to the sun; basking in the sun; shining like the sun. 2 to expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun clothes. |
Sunnish | adj | Resembling the sun in color and brilliancy; applied to a bright golden tan. |
Sunny | adj | Pertaining to, or like, the sun. 2. bright with sunshine or sunlight; bright like the sun. 3. exposed to be warmed by the sun. 4. filled with light and warmth of the sun. 5. of a person: genial, cheerful and bright in temperament. 6. |
Sunny | adv | With the sunny side up. |
Sunny | phr | "Sunny Side Down" - Of an egg prepared for food, fried on one side until most of the whites have been cooked, then lightly fried on the other to finish cooking the whites, leaving the yolk unbroken and slightly soft. |
Sunny | phr | "Sunny Side Up" - of an egg fried on one side, served with the unbroken relatively soft yolk on top. |
Sunnyside | adv | The sunny side of a house, street, hill that gets most sun. 2. the cheerful view of a circumstance, situation or questuion; anyways looking on the sunny side; optimistic. |
Sunny | phr | "On the Sunny side" - having an optimistic view of life. |
Sun pipe | n | A natural lighting system that maximizes the concept of renewable energy by channeling natural daylight from roofs to indoor environments. 2. a skylight. |
Sunquake | n | Powerful earthquake-like events on the sun's surface, that can be set off by huge belches of charged particles from the solar atmosphere. |
Sunred | adj | Of a red sky at night. This means that the setting sun is sending its light through a high concentration of dust particles. This usually indicates high pressure and stable air coming in from the west. Basically good weather will follow. |
Sun-reddened | adj | Of a person's skin or fruit reddened by the sun. |
Sunripe | adj | Ripened by the Sun. |
Sunrise | n | Dawn, sun up; the sun's daily rising on the horizon at dawn. 2. the colored sky associated with dawn. 3. the time at which sunrise occurs. 4. the east, the Oriental. |
Sunrising | n | Sunrise, sun-up, daybreak. |
Sunrist | n | Sunrise, the sun's rising at dawn. 2. the east. |
Sunroof | n | A panel in the roof of a car that slides open. |
Sunroom | n | A room built to admit a profusion of sunlight. 2. a solarium. |
Sunrose | n | Plants in the family "Cistaceae" the rock rose family |
Sunseed | n | A variety of sunflower seed intended to produce healthier sunflower. |
Sun-seared | adj | Sorched or burned by long exposure to the sun. |
Sun-seeker | n | A person who enjoys exposure to sunlight; an avid sunbather. |
Sunset | n | The sunset in the evening. 2. the descent of the sun below the horizon. 3. the time of the disappearance of the sun. 4. the colrs in the sky at sunset. 5. evening; the west. 6. the ending or declining period of one's life. |
Sunset-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of the sunset. |
Sunsetting | n | An instance of the sun-setting; a sunset. |
Sunsetty | adj | Characteristic of a sunset. |
Sunset years | n | Twilight years, old age, golden years. |
Sunset yellow | n | An orange- coloring, 'Sunset Yellow' is used in food, cosmetics, and drugs. For example, it is used in sweets, desserts, snacks, sauces, and preserved fruits. It is often used in conjunction with amaranth, to produce a brown coloring in both chocolates and caramel. |
Sun-shade | n | Something used as a protection from the rays of the sun; an awning, a parasol. |
Sun-shaft | n | A sunbeam. |
Sun-shaped | adj | Having the shape of a sun (round). |
Sun-shelter | n | A cover or protection from the effects of the rays of the sun. |
Sun-sheltered | adj | Covered or protected from the effects of the rays of the sun. |
Sun-shielded | adj | Covered or protected from the effects of the rays of the sun. |
Sunshine | n | The shiny light of and heat from the sun; the direct ray of the light. 2. a place on which the sun rays fall or shine. sunny, fine weather; a sunny place. 3. the warmth of the sun's rays. 4. cheerfulness; joy, any cheerful influence (brought sunshine into her life). 5. a car , denoting a roof which slides open, to admit sunshine and air. |
Sunshine law | n | In U.S. a law requiring certain official meetings, records, etc., of certain government agencies to be open and available to the public. |
Sunshineless | adj | Without sunshine. |
Sunshine roof | n | A sun roof. |
Sunshining | adj | Full of sunshine. |
Sunshiny | adj | Bright with sunshine; pleasant. |
Sun shorts | n | Short trousers worn during summer. |
Sunshot | n | (poetic) shot through with sunlight. |
Sun-shower | n | A rain shower which occurs while the sun is shining. |
Sun-sitting | n | Sunset, sun-go-down, sundown, dusk. |
Sun-smile | n | A beaming, joyful, full-faced smile. |
Sun-sodden | adj | Bathed or drowning in sunlight. |
Sun spell | n | A period of sunshine or sunlight. |
Sun spider | n | An arachnid belonging to the order Soli fugae; the camel spider. |
Sun star | n | Any starfish of the genus Solaster, with many arms. |
Sun-starved | adj | Deprived of sufficient sunlight. |
Sun-stead | n | Solstice, sunsted, sunstay. |
Sunstone | n | A cat-eye's gem, especially a feldspar with embedded flecks of haematite etc. 2. a variety of feldspar; an aventurine. |
Sun-streaked | adj | Having lines, or streaked through on a surface by the effects of sunlight upon it. |
Sun strike | n | The Glare from the road that can temporarily blind a driver |
Sun strike | vb | To be temporarily blinded by the glare from the road. |
Sunstricken | adj | Afflicted with sunshine. |
Sunstroke | n | Acute illness with prostration, collapse, coma or convulsion caused by overexposure or insolation to the sun. |
Sunstruck | adj | Afflicted with sunshine. |
Sunswept | adj | Enjoying a great deal of sunshine. |
Suntan | n | The brownish coloring of skin caused by exposure to the sun. |
Suntan | vb | To cover the skin with suntan. |
Suntanned | adj | Having a suntan. |
Suntans | n | The lightweight summer uniform made of khaki worn by US personnel. |
Sun-thickened | adj | (For use in the art of painting) The thickening of certain oils as refined linseed oil and pour it in a metal tray and leave it in a window in direct sun light and stir it every other day (for several days) for a minute or so. |
Sun-time | n | Time by the sun; apparent time. |
Sun-topped | adj | Of a mountain whose peak or summit is covered with sunshine. |
Sun-up | n | Sunrise; dawn, the sun's rising at dawn. |
Sun-up-to-sundown | n | The whole day, a very long time. |
Sun-wade | n | The sun is said to wade when covered by dense atmosphere. |
Sun-wake | n | The reflection of the sunset or sunrise on the surface of the sea. |
Sunward | adj | Facing towards or in the direction of the sun. |
Sunwards | adv | Towards the sun. |
Sun-warmed | adj | Warmed by the rays of the sun. |
Sunways | adv | Clockwise, deasil, sunwise. |
Sunwear | n | Sunglasses and certain ranges of clothing suitable for wear in summer and tropical climates. |
Sun-weathered | adj | Showing the effects on a person's skin of one who has been overexposed to the rays of the sun. |
Sun wheels | n | An ingenious contrivance for converting reciprocating motion, as that of the work beam of a steam engine, into rotatory motion. |
Sunwise | adv | With the sun; in the direction of the sun's course: from east to west. 2. in a clockwise direction. |
Sun-withered | adj | (Of a person's skin)shriveled, shrunken or faded, especially due to the overexposure to the rays of the sun. |
Sun-worn | adj | Damaged as a result of overexposure to the sun. |
Sun-worship | n | The worship or veneration of the sun as a god. |
Sun-worshipper | n | One who venerates the sun or a representation of the sun as a deity; heliotheism. |
Sun-worshipping | n | The veneration of the sun or a representation of the sun as a deity; heliotheism. |
Sun-wrinkled | adj | (Of a person's skin) shriveled, due to overexposure to the rays of the sun. |
Sun-yellow | adj | A yellowish-red color. |
Sun-yellowed | adj | Having a yellowish red color. |
Sup | n | A small quantity of liquid, a small mouthful; a sip. |
Sup | vb | To take into the mouth a little at a time. 2. as a liquid to take in sips. 3. to eat with a spoon, as soup. |
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