Crossword clues for sunning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sun \Sun\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sunned; p. pr. & vb. n. Sunning.] To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.
Then to sun thyself in open air.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of sun English)
WordNet
n. a typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system; "the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system"
the rays of the sun; "the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind" [syn: sunlight, sunshine]
a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc
any star around which a planetary system evolves
first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians [syn: Sunday, Lord's Day, Dominicus]
See sun
Wikipedia
Sunning may refer to:
- Sunning, Berkshire, United Kingdom
- Sunning (dermatology), a darkening of the skin in a natural physiological response stimulated by exposure to sunshine
- The former name of Taishan, Guangdong, China
An act the opposite of mooning the act of showing ones front side
Usage examples of "sunning".
However, a cheerful disposition is sometimes better than a banking account, and not having the one I cultivated the other, sunning myself amongst the bales for a time, and then, since none seemed interested in me, wandered off into the town, partly to satisfy my curiosity, and partly in the vague hope of ascertaining if my princess was really here, and, if possible, getting sight of her.
Below, the second hunter shouted after them, but she banked down into the lowland mist and flew a steady course for the sunning stone.
She flew higher, seeking the trail of the greater flowing water whose course would lead her to the sunning stone.
Sanglant was intent on her mate a silver-hued griffin asleep on the sunning stone.
The silver griffin lay draped along the warm stone, sunning itself with its head resting on its paws and its wings folded back over its body.
As the silver one turns to pace back toward the sunning stone, it flexes its wings and several loose feathers shake free as a bird might molt.
As the promise of the sun brightened the eastern sky, limning the crags with its pale glow, the griffins sank down on the sunning stone.
The griffins padded restlessly back and forth on the sunning stone as though eager to retreat but unwilling to desert her.
Two shoats grunted and squirmed at him through the fence, black pigs, sunning and comfortable.
Several other of the beasts were sunning themselves on a ledge before the caves.