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sunbeam

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Word definitions for sunbeam in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sunnebeam ; see sun (n.) + beam (n.). As "cheerful person" from 1886.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight. 2 (context Australia colloquial dated English) 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. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunbeam \Sun"beam`\, n. [AS. sunnebeam.] A beam or ray of the sun. ``Evening sunbeams.'' --Keble. Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even On a sunbeam. --Milton.

Usage examples of sunbeam.

Oh, the busy work Miss Matty and I had in chasing the sunbeams, as they fell in an afternoon right down on this carpet through the blindless window!

Stamping and hopping about, suddenly more cheerful because of the sheer silliness of what she was doing, she started dancing with the sunbeams, kicking up swirls of strawdust, until she slipped and landed on her coccyx with a thud that jarred her brain.

In her dark hair was the likeness of the horned moon in honey-coloured cymophanes every stone whereof held a straight beam of light imprisoned that quivered and gleamed as sunbeams quiver wading in the clear deeps of a summer sea.

He found too that her great mass of hair, instead of being, as he had thought, dull, was in reality full of glints and golden hints, as if she had twisted up a handful of sunbeams with it in the morning, which, before night, had faded a little, catching something of the duskiness and shadowiness of their prison.

From these her sight wandered over the cliffs and woods into the valley, along which foamed a broad and rapid stream, seen falling among the crags of an opposite mountain, now flashing in the sunbeams, and now shadowed by over-arching pines, till it was entirely concealed by their thick foliage.

One of the most interesting problems is to find the ganglionic origin of the great nerves of the medulla oblongata, and this is the end to which, by the aid of the most delicate sections, colored so as to bring out their details, mounted so as to be imperishable, magnified by the best instruments, and now self-recorded in the light of the truth-telling sunbeam, our fellow-student is making a steady progress in a labor which I think bids fair to rank with the most valuable contributions to histology that we have had from this side of the Atlantic.

And she herself had hushed the grieving quiver of his lip, and quickly filled his dimpled hands with flowers to win the farewell caress of that dancing smile which irradiated his face like an April sunbeam, parting the pink lips over a vision of pearly infant teeth.

He smoked his cigarette while Qazi sat in silence and watched the dust swirl in the sunbeam coming through the one window.

Anto Rayl, standing in the airlock of the Sunbeam waved, turned, and dived across space to the entrance port of a great gleaming metal wall, a mighty battleship wall.

Aarn grinned and took Anto Rayl to one of the doors in the wall of the Sunbeam.

The sunbeams sank deeper and deeper into the wheatears, layer upon layer of light, and the colour deepened by these daily strokes.

The SEC was already investigating one accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, which represented both Waste Management and Sunbeam, to determine how things had gone astray.

Such men as he can never bear to know that there are others, gifted by heaven, for whom all common things take radiant shape and meaning,--for whom the flowers reveal their fragrant secrets,--for whom birds not only sing, but speak in most melodious utterance--for whose dreaming eyes, the very sunbeams spin bright fantasies in mid-air more lasting than the kingdoms of the world!

Motes of the menstruum, turning like dust in a sunbeam, dropped from her lashes and evaporated inches from his face.

Nevertheless, the sunbeam had its cloud-shapes of gloom, and if Israel in his darker hours hungered for more human company, and wished that the little playfellow of the angels which had come down to his dwelling could only be his simple human child, he sometimes had his wish, and many throbs of anguish with it.