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Sundog

Sundog \Sun"dog`\, n. (Meteorol.)

  1. 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.

  2. A fragmentary rainbow; a small rainbow near the horizon; -- called also dog and weathergaw.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sundog

"mock sun, parhelion," 1650s; the second element is of obscure origin.

Wiktionary
sundog

n. (alternative spelling of sun dog English)

WordNet
sundog

n. a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals; "two or more parhelia are usually seen at once" [syn: parhelion, mock sun]

Wikipedia
Sundog (company)

Sundog is a marketing and technology company based in Fargo, North Dakota with offices in Denver, Colorado and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The company provides services related to marketing and technology to its roughly 75 clients. Sundog has clients in the engineering, manufacturing, health and technology industries.

Usage examples of "sundog".

This city would be a metropolis, a circumsolar free port, the ultimate sundog zone.

In the deceptive emptiness of space swam the sundogs and the race called The Pod.

Not all sundogs were friendly, or bright enough to realize what would follow if they forgot themselves and engulfed a small spaceship.

Then there were the sundogs, who were merely raw life and derived their picture of the universe from the minds of their customers.

Band had no higher life of its own, which was why the sundogs selected it.

He could communicate with the liquid content of sundogs who had as pups drunk from the lake, and hence through their own telepathy - which was no more than a by-function of their massive brains - learn from the minds of travellers.

The light inside Cairo dimmed as the dust clouds obscured the sun, and the tent’s polarization created short rainbows and sundogs, as if the very fabric of the world were unraveling into kaleidoscopic parts.

Sunlight burned through the mist and haze in broad lurid splashes, and in the sunset hour icebows and sundogs appeared in the sky, along with rings of light around the dulled sun.

Clouds formed and storms broke, and sometimes the sky was spangled with icebows and sundogs and dust devils made of hail, sparkling like mica in the pink sunlight.