ˈsun-bright, a. Chiefly poet.
[OE. sunbeorht occurs in sense 2.]
1. Bright as the sun; supremely bright. (Often in hyperbolical use; also fig.)
| 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Oct. 72 Sonnebright honour pend in shamefull coupe. 1591 Shakes. Two Gent. iii. i. 88 How, and which way I may bestow my selfe To be regarded in her sun-bright eye. 1642 H. More Song of Soul i. i. 3 The fulvid Eagle with her sun-bright eye. 1667 Milton P.L. vi. 100 High in the midst exalted as a God Th' Apostat in his Sun-bright Chariot sate. 1747 D. Mallet Amyntor & Theodora Wks. 1759 l. 153 As reason thus the mental storm seren'd And thro the darkness sent her sun-bright ray. 1883 W. Arthur Fernley Lect. 73 The sunbright thoughts of man themselves. |
2. Bright with sunshine; illumined by the sun.
| 1744 Akenside Pleas. Imag. iii. 360 For not the expanse Of living lakes in Summer's noontide calm, Reflects the..sun-bright heavens With fairer semblance. 1827 Keble Chr. Y., St. James' Day, Tabor's sunbright steep. a 1835 Mrs. Hemans Maremma xxiv, A sun-bright waste of beauty. 1894 Stevenson & L. Osbourne Ebb Tide iii, The green of sunbright foliage. |