Word Meanings - SUNSHINY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day. 2. Bright like the sun; resplendent. Flashing beams of that sunshiny shield. Spenser. 3. Beaming with good spirits; cheerful. "Her sunshiny face." Spenser.

Related words: (words related to SUNSHINY)

• BRIGHT
  See I
• BEAMFUL
  Beamy; radiant.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• BEAMLESS
  1. Not having a beam. 2. Not emitting light.
• BEAMY
  1. Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. "Beamy gold." Tickell. 2. Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. His double-biting ax, and beamy spear. Dryden. 3. Having horns, or antlers. Beamy stags in toils engage. Dryden.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• SUNSHINY
  1. Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day. 2. Bright like the sun; resplendent. Flashing beams of that sunshiny shield. Spenser. 3. Beaming with good spirits; cheerful. "Her sunshiny face." Spenser.
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• BEAMBIRD
  A small European flycatcher , so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• SHIELDDRAKE
  A sheldrake.
• BEAM
  OFries. bam tree, OS. b, D. boom, OHG. boum, poum, G. baum, Icel. ba, Goth. bahms and Gr. a growth, to become, to be. Cf. L. radius staff, rod, spoke of a wheel, beam or ray, and G. strahl arrow, spoke of a 1. Any large piece of timber or iron
• FLASHING
  The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
• BEAMINESS
  The state of being beamy.
• CLEAR-SEEING
  Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
• CHEERFULNESS
  Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
• CLEARCOLE
  A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
• SHAREBEAM
  The part of the plow to which the share is attached.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• TIEBEAM
  A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof. Gwilt.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.