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Dissundered :: Dissundered (imp. & p. p.) of Dissunde.

Hyperion :: Hyperion (n.) The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty..

Barpost :: Barpost (n.) A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) The sunflower.

Sonnish :: Sonnish (a.) Like the sun; sunny; golden.

Lucule :: Lucule (n.) A spot or fleck on the sun brighter than the surrounding surface.

Mithras :: Mithras (n.) The sun god of the Persians.

Shafiite :: Shafiite (n.) A member of one of the four sects of the Sunnites, or Orthodox Mohammedans; -- so called from its founder, Mohammed al-Shafei..

Year :: Year (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissext

Heat :: Heat (n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric..

Sunstroke :: Sunstone (n.) Aventurine feldspar. See under Aventurine.

Sun :: Sunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Su.

Disuniting :: Disuniting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disunit.

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song..

Uranus :: Uranus (n.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years..

Eve :: Eve (n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event..

Dial :: Dial (n.) An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical..

Sunder :: Sundering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sunde.

Chorus :: Chorus (n.) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus..

Gabion :: Gabion (n.) An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement..

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