sunderance 
Any sunderancc nt sympathy with the .Mother Country. 
The American, VIII. 343. 
sunderliugt, adr. [ME. sunikrliny (= MD. son- 
derlingh = MLG. auiidi'i'lii/t/es, sunderliitgen, 
adv., sunderlink, adj.), < sunder 1 , <t<h-., + -lint/-.'] 
Separately. 
To uch oii 
North America, a shrubby herb from 1 to 3 
feet high, often cultivated for its profuse bright- 
yellow flowers. Differently from the related 
evening primrose, its flowers open by day. See 
cut under (Enothertt. 
sundry (sun'dri), a. [Also dial, sindry; < ME. 
sundry, sondry, sindry, < AS. syndrig, separate 
ie mnderliny he jaf a dole. - <,, - ;,, - .,, . -., , ~- r - 
CaeteU o/ Love, p. 290. ( = OHG. suntaric, MHG. sunder iij = Sw. son- 
sunderment (sun'der-ment), a. [< sunder 1 + 
-iiii'iit.'] The state of being parted or separated ; 
separation. [Bare.] 
.It was . . . apparent who must be the survivor in case 
of sunderment. Miss Burney, Diary, VII. 318. (Dames.) 
sunder-tree (sun'der-tre), . See sundari. 
sundew (suu'du), . 1. A plant of the genus 
Drosera. The species are small bog-loving herbs with 
perennial root or rootstock, their leaves covered with 
glandular hairs secreting dewy drops. The European and 
North American plants have the leaves in radical tufts, 
and the flowers racemed on a simple scape which nods 
at the summit so that the flower of the day is always 
uppermost. The best-known of these is D. rotundtfolia, 
the round-leaved sundew of both continents, having small 
white flowers. (See cut under Drosera.) D. Jiliformis, the 
thread-leaved sundew, is a beautiful plant of wet sands 
near the Atlantic coast of the United States. Its slender 
leaves are very long, and its flowers are purple, very nu- 
merous, half an inch wide. Also dew-plant. 
2. Any plant of the order Droserace/e. Lindley. 
Sundew family, the Drogeracese. 
sun-dial (sun'dl // al), . [Early mod. E. also 
sumie-diall; < suiii + dial."] An instrument for 
indicating the time of day by means of the po- 
sition of a shadow on a dial or diagram. The 
shadow used is generally the edge of a gnomon, which 
edge must be paral- 
lel to the earth's axis, 
about which the sun 
revolves uniformly 
in consequence of 
the earth's diurnal 
rotation. If a series 
of imaginary planes 
through the edge 
(one in the meridian 
and the others in- 
clined to one another 
drif/, broken, tattered), < siindor, apart, sepa- 
rately: see sunder 1 , udv.~\ If. Separate; dis- 
tinct; diverse. 
It was neuer better with the congregacion of God then 
whan euery church allmost had y e Byble of a sondrye 
translacion. Coverdale, I'rol. to Trans, of Bible. 
There were put about our ueckes lacis of sondnj colours 
to declare our personages. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, ii. 12. 
2f. Individual ; one for each. 
At ilka tippit o' his horse mane 
There hang a siller bell ; 
The wind was loud, the steed was proud, 
And they gae a sindry knell. 
Youny Waters (Child's Ballads, III. 301). 
3. Several; divers; more than one or two; 
various. 
He was so neody, seith the bok in meny sondry places. 
Piers Plowman (C), xxiii. 42. 
Wei nyne and twenty in acompainye, 
Of sondry folk, by auenture i-falle. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 26. 
Masking the business from the common eye 
For sundry weighty reasons. 
Shak., Macbeth, iii. 1. 126. 
I doubt not but that you have heard of those fiery Me- 
teors and Thunderbolts that have fallen upon sundry of 
our Churches, and done hurt. Uowell, Letters, I. vi. 43. 
All and sundry, all, both collectively and individually : 
sun-glow 
is naturally robust; but in cultivation it grows to a height 
of 10 or 12 feet; the disk of the head broadens from an 
inch or so to several inches, the leaves becoming more 
heart-shaped and often over a foot long. A favorite pro- 
fusely flowering garden 
sunflower known as //. 
iimltijlorug is referred 
for origin to the same 
species. Other culti- 
vated species are H. 
orguali* of the great 
plains of Nebraska, etc., 
a smooth plant 10 feet 
high, with narrow 
graceful leaves, and //. 
aryophyllus of Texas, 
with soft silky white 
foliage. //. tuberoms 
is the Jerusalem arti- 
choke (which see, un- 
der artichoke). See//eft- 
anthus, and cut under 
anthoclinium. 
2. The rock-rose 
or sun-rose. See 
Helta nthemum. 
3f. The marigold, 
Calendula officina- 
lis, from its opening 
and closing with the ascent and descent of the 
sun. Prior. 4. In civil engin., a full-circle 
protractor arranged for vertical mounting on a 
tripod. It has two levels arranged at right angles with 
one another, adjusting devices, and an adjustable arm 
pivoted to the center of the protractor ; the tripod mount- 
ing is effected by means of an open-ended tube to which 
the protractor is attached, the tube being passed verti- 
cally through the ball of the ball-ami socket joint of the 
tripod, and held therein by a set-screw. The instrument 
is used in measuring sectional areas of tunnels. 
5. In writing-telegraphs and other electrical in- 
Sunflower (Helianfhjts tinnitus). 
as, be it known to all and sundry whom it may concern, strmnpnta n r*f ! 
- Sundry CivU Appropriation Bill, one of the regular ^S^^Pf^SSl* l^l B _?.Tt? 
appropriation bills passed by the United States Congress, 
providing for various expenses in the civil service. 
conducting and insulating segmental pieces 
or tablets symmetrically arranged in circular 
sundry-man (sun'dri-man), n. Adealerinsun- form, each conducting piece being connected 
pointit 
dries, or a variety of different articles. 
sun-fern (sun'fern), . The fern Phegopteris 
polypodioides (Polypodium Phegopteris of Lin- 
by successive multi- nteus). See Plieqopteris. 
K*J.!S.* b th< P' a . ne of thf dial, the Intersect. sun .f eve r (sun'fe'ver), n. 1. Same as simple 
Sun-dial. 
Face of horizontal dial, shadow 
to one o'clock. 
_. , __________________ ...... 
ing lines will be in the positions of the hour-lines ______ 
dial. The shadow of any given point upon the gnomon- 
edge will fall at different positions on the hour-line accord- 
d , e f llna " on f 'i 1 . 6 , 8 "!" and this circumstance sun- 
- To rectify a sun-dial. See rectify. 
_ (sun'dog), M. A mock sun, or parhelion. 
sundoree (sun'do-re), n. [Also sundaree, sen- 
toree; Assamese.] A cyprinoid fish, Semiplotim 
macclellandi, of Assam. It has a long dorsal fin 
with twenty-seven or twenty-eight rays. 
sundown (sun'doun), . [< sun 1 + dowift.1 1. 
Sunset; sunsetting. 
Sitting there birling ... till sun-dawn, and then com- 
ing hame and crying for ale ! Scott, Old Mortality, v. 
continued fever (which see, under fever 1 ). 2. 
Same as dengue. 
(sun'fig'ur), n. 
with a source of electricity and also with the 
ground. It is operated by a tracer (also having a ground 
connection) rotated over the series, and making a circuit 
in passing over any of the conducting segments and break- 
ing it when passing over any of the insulating segments. 
Bastard or false sunflower. See llelenium. Jungle- 
sunflower, a shrubby South African composite, Osteo- 
spermum monttiferum, forming a bush 2 to 4 feet high, 
the rays bright-yellow, the achenia drupaceous and barely 
edible. A colonial name is bush-lick berry. Sunflower- 
oil, sunflower-seed oil, a drying-oil expressed from the 
seeds of the common sunflower. Tickseed sunflower. 
See tickseed. 
One of the stellate 
Portable sun-dials used often to be made^o that their in- ^ germinating ovum-cells during karyokinesis. 
dications depended exclusively on the altitude of the sun; Jour. Micros. Set., XXX. 163. 
such dials require adjustment for the time of the year, sunflsh (sun'fish), . [X sun 1 + flsh 1 1 1 A Sun-fruit (sun'frot), n. See Heliocarpus. 
common name of various fishes. () Any fls'h of sung (sung). A preterit and the past participle 
the genus Mola, Orthagoriscus, or Cephalus, notable when of sing. 
adult for their singularly rounded figure and great size. SUn-gate-downt, . [< ME. sunne gate downe; < 
See Molidse, and cut under Mola. (b) The basking-shark, sun 1 + ,, a tc'~ 4- liow*2 1 Smidown snnspr 
Cetorhinus maximus. See cut under basking-shark. (c) , lown ' sunset - 
The opah or kingfish, Lampris luna. [Eng.] (d) The boar- * '"Sgrave. 
ftsh.Caprosaper. [Local, Eng.] (e) Oneof thenumerous sun-gem (sun'jem), H. A humming-bird of the 
? m ?,!l^ n . t . I ^ 1 }oid flshes^of the United States, belonging genus Heliactin (Boie, 1831). The type and only 
species is H. cornntus of Brazil, remarkable for the bril- 
liant tuft on each side of the crown, and the peculiar shape 
and coloration of the tall. The four median rectrices are 
subequal to one another in length, and much longer than 
the rapidly shortened lateral feathers. The male has the 
to the genus Lepomis or Pomotis and some related genera, 
2. A hat with a wide brim intended to protect 
the eyes. [U. S.] 
Young faces of those days seemed as sweet and win- 
ning under wide-brimmed sundowns or old-time "pokes" 
as ever did those that have laughed beneath a "love of a 
bonnet" of a more de rigueur mode. 
The Century, XXXVI. 769. 
sundowner (sun'dou'uer), . A man who 
makes a practice of arriving at some station 
at sundown, receiving rations for that night, 
and the next morning, when he is expected to 
work out the value of the rations, vanishing or 
pretending to be ill. [Slang, Australia.] 
The only people [in Australia] who let themselves afford 
to have no specific object in life are the sundotvners, as 
they are colonially called the loafers who saunter from 
station to station in the interior, secure of a nightly ration 
and a bunk. 
Arch. Forbes, Souvenirs of some Continents, p. 74. 
sundra-tree (sun'dra-tre), H. See mindari. 
sun-dried (sun'drid)', a. Dried in the rays of 
the sun. 
sundries (sun'driz),H. pi. Various small things, 
or miscellaneous matters, too minute or nu- 
merous to be individually specified: a comprc- .* 
accounts* 6 "" used for brevity, especially in sunflsh '(sun'fish), v. i. 
Mr. Giles, Brittles, and the tinker were recruiting them- 
selves, after the fatigues and terrors of the night with tea 
and sundries. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xxviii. 
sundrilyt (suu'dri-: 
mine/rely; < sundry 
variously. 
genus Helianthus, so named froni^ its showy 
golden radiate heads. The common or annual sun- 
- - . flower is ff.arantms, a native of the western United States, 
sundrops (sun'drops), . A hardy biennial or mu , p l a - n ' ed el8e ] whe re for ornament, and for its oily 
perennial plant, (Enothera fruticosa, of eastern 
Sunnsh or Pumpkin-seed (Left), 
having a long and sometimes spotted but mostly black 
opercular flap. They are known by many local names, as 
bream, pond-fish, pond-perch, pumpkin-teed, coppernose, 
tobacco-tox, sun-perch, and sunny. They are among the 
most abundant of the fresh-water fishes of the United 
States east of the Kocky Mountain region, and about 25 
species are known. In the breeding-season they consort 
in pairs, and prepare a nest by clearing a rounded area, 
generally near the banks, and watch over the eggs until 
they are hatched. 
2. A jellyfish, especially one of the larger 
kinds, a foot or so in diameter. See cut under 
Cyaneii. 
[< xunjixii, .] To act 
Sun gem yleliatttn cornuttts}. 
upper parts, belly, and flanks bronzy-green, the throat 
velvety-black, the rest of the under parts white, most of 
the tail-feathers white edged with olive-brown, the crown 
shining greenish-blue, the tufts fiery-crimson ; the female 
is differently colored. The length is 4J inches, of which 
the tail is more than one half; the wing is 2 inches, the 
bill '. inch. 
like a sunfish, specifically as Tin the quotationT sun-glass (sun'glas), n. A burning-glass. 
Sometimes he [the bronco] is a " plunging" bueker who Sun-glimpse (sun 'glimps), n. A glimpse of the 
runs forward all the time while bucking; or he may buck sun i a moment s sunshine. S'cotf,Rokeby,iv.l". 
Dyuers auctours of theyse namys of kynges and con- 
tynuaunce of theyr reygnes, dyuerely and sundrely reporte 
and wryte. Fabaan. Chron., cxlvi. 
sun-glow is that known as Bishop's ring, which appeared 
after the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, and remained visi- 
ble for several years thereafter. 
2. The glow or warm light of the sun. 
The few last sunylou-s which give the fruits their sweet- 
ness. The Academy, No. 900, p. 75. 
