SUN'SHINE, noun [sun and shine.] The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, or the place where they fall. But all sunshine as when his beams at noon Culminate from th' equator. 1. A place warmed and illuminated; warmth; illumination. The man that sits within a monarch's heart, And ripens in the sunshine of his favor. SUN'SHINE
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