sunward, adv. and a.
(ˈsʌnwəd)
Also 8 Sc. sinwart.
[f. sun n.1 + -ward.]
A. adv. Orig. † to the sun-ward (in quot. 1611 = on the sunny side): toward the sun; in the direction of the sun.
| 1611 Cotgr., Avant-pesche, th' Auant-peach,..russet on one side, and red to the Sunne-ward. a 1711 Ken Psyche Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 252 The Saint, embarking on the Cloud, it rose..Then faster than it rose, it sunward dropp'd. 1786 Burns To Mountain Daisy v, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread. 1788 Picken Poems 125 A skepp o' Bees,..Wadg't in atween twa willow trees, An' airtan to the sinwart. 1847 Longfellow By Fireside, Tegnér's Drapa i, The mournful cry Of sunward sailing cranes. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 82 Clouds..with their faces turned sunward, shone [etc.]. |
B. adj. Directed toward the sun; moving or facing in the direction of the sun.
| 1769 Falconer Shipwr. iii. 22 As they view His sunward flight. 1795 Campbell Caroline ii. vi, Shine on her chosen green resort Whose trees the sunward summit crown. 1853 G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 74 On sunward banks. 1887 Swinburne Locrine iv. ii. 263 Mightier than the sunward eagle's wing. 1892 Black Wolfenberg I. 165 Pomegranates..taking a tinge of crimson on their sunward side. |