Definition of Sunglows

1. sunglow [n] - See also: sunglow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunglows

sung
sung along
sungar
sungars
sungazer
sungazers
sungazing
sungen
sunglint
sunglints
sunglow
sunglows (current term)
sungrazing
sungrebe
sungrebes
sunhat
sunhats
sunitinib
sunk
sunk cost
sunk costs
sunk fence
sunken
sunken-eyed
sunken arch
sunken garden

Literary usage of Sunglows

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"... fearing to part with them till they had received those ' final gossamer touches and tendernesses ' which he compared to the ' few last sunglows which ..."

2. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century by Agnes Mary Clerke (1893)
"The magnificent sunglows due to the diffractive effects on light of the vapours and fine dust flung in vast volumes into the air, and rapidly diffused all ..."

3. Subject Register of Papers Published in the Transactions and Proceedings of ...by American Philosophical Society, Henry Phillips by American Philosophical Society, Henry Phillips (1889)
"V. sunglows of the Autumns of 1883 and 1884 (William Blasius) Proc. XXII. Sun's Parallax as found by the Transit of Venus, June 3, 1769 (William Smith) ..."

4. Die Fortschritte der Physik by Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (1890)
"sunglows and volcanic eruptions in Iceland. Nature XXIX, 420f. Die Erscheinungen können nicht von Vulkanausbrüchen auf Island herrühren. Seh. ..."

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