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ˈsunburnt, ˈsunburned, a.
Forms: see burn v.1
[f. sun n.1 +burnt, burned, pa. pple. of burn v.1 Cf. G. sonn(en)verbrannt.]
1. Discoloured, tanned, or superficially inflamed by exposure to sunshine; chiefly of the skin or complexion.
αc1400Plowman's Tale 18 Our hoste..saw this man was sunne y-brent. c1530Judic. Urines ii. ii. 11 b, Men of Ethyoppe, that are sonne breent. a1550Peebles to the Play in Pop. Scot. Poems 6, I dar not come yon mercat to, I am so ill sun-brynt. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 5 Thei that walke muche in the Sonne..are..for the moste part Sonne burnt. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Irene Wks. (1711) 170 The sun-burnt nations of the south. 1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1105/4 A short fat Man with a reddish face, his hair sun burnt. 1705Ibid. No. 4155/4 A black Gelding.., with a short whisk Tail, and Sun-burnt upon it. 1818Byron Beppo xxvi, He was a man as dusky as a Spaniard, Sunburnt with travel. 1825Scott Betrothed xxxi, His swarthy and sunburnt hair. 1858Longfellow M. Standish ix. 50 Great was the people's amazement,..Thus to behold once more the sunburnt face of their Captain.
βc1500How the Plowman lerned his Pater-Noster 130 in Hazl. E.P.P. (1864) I. 214 The one [was] sonburned, another black as a pan. 1530Palsgr. 429/1, I am sonne brunde with sonne. Ibid. 725/1 Howe you be sonne burned for one dayes rydynge. 1622Peacham Compl. Gentl. vi. (1906) 52, I would..have done him as much honour, as ever..the Sun-burnd ægyptians their æsculapius. 1813Scott Trierm. ii. xxi, The sun-burn'd maid. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay i, A broad sunburned face.
†b. fig. Superficially learned. Obs. nonce-use.
a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 111 So many seeming, and sonburnt ministers..whose learning is gotten in a sommer heat, and washed away, with a Christmas snow againe.
c. transf. Of a brown colour, as if sunburnt.
1893Lady 10 Aug. 146/2 Sunburnt straw will be immensely popular for country wear. 1915Truth 25 Aug. 317/1 Pastry and cakes, which may be of a sunburned brown.
2. Scorched, parched, or dried up by the heat of the sun, as land or vegetation; also fig.
αc1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxviii. xi, As thick as dust on sun-burnt field. 1597Drayton Mortimeriad Ded. 2 Whilst they boast but of their sun-burnt brayns. 1631R. Knevet Rhodon & Iris iii. iii. F 3, On the sun-burnt brinke of warme Hydaspes. a1658Cleveland Content 80 Whither wilt thou bear My Sun-burnt hope to Loss? a1721Prior Amaryllis 29 On sun-burnt mountain-tops, and parched sands. 1801Farmer's Mag. Aug. 351 The rains..have given a fresh verdure to the sun-burnt grass. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 7 The sunburnt ways of the wilderness.
βa1586Sidney Arcadia iii. ii. (1590) 249 b, The pleasantest fruites, that Sunburnd Autumne could deliuer. 1632Rutherford Lett. 9 Mar. (1675) iii. 164 In the same Garden..grow the Saints, God's fair and beautiful Lillies, under wind and rain and all sun-burned.
3. Baked by the heat of the sun, as bricks: = sun-baked 1.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 61 The Houses are of Sun⁓burnt bricks. 1686Hedges Diary 14 Apr., I went to see a great Tower called Nimrod, built of Sun-burnt bricks. 1820Belzoni Egypt & Nubia iii. 385 A high wall of sun-burnt bricks. 1862Beveridge Hist. India III. vii. vi. 184 A thick and lofty wall of sun-burned clay.
Hence ˈsunburntness rare.
1692O. Walker Grk. & Rom. Hist. 233 C. Pescennius Niger Justus..was called Niger, because of the Sun-burntness of his Neck and Face. |