ˈsunˌburning, n.
[f. as prec. + burning vbl. n.]
‘Burning’ by exposure to the sun; sunburn.
| 1530 Palsgr. 272/2 Sonne burnyng, hasle. 1535 Coverdale Isa. iii. 24 In steade of a stomacher, a sack cloth, and for their bewty wythrednesse and sonneburnynge. 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, v. ii. 154 If thou canst loue a fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth Sunne-burning..take me. 1642 Milton Apol. Smect. xi. Wks. 1851 III. 314 Those thanks in the womans Churching for her delivery from Sun⁓burning and Moonblasting. 1680 T. K. Kitchin-Physician 10 This Pomade takes away Sun-burning. 1822–7 Good Study Med. (1829) V. 699 Blemishes which have no connexion with sun-burning. 1900 D. S. Margoliouth in Expositor Jan. 34 Swarthiness produced by sunburning. |
So ˈsunˌburning a. rare—1.
| 1555 Latimer in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. App. xxxvi. 99 A little heate or sun-burning wether. |