Obs. rare. [f. SUN sb. + SHINING vbl. sb.] = SUNSHINE sb. (lit. and fig.).
13[?]. Cour de L., 2410. Richard the king, The best under the sun-shining.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Edw. IV., 228 b. All the Constables promises were but fayre sunne shynyng, swetely spoken, and sowerly performed.
1584. Cogan, Haven Health (1636), 181. By setting Butter … in a platter, open to the Sunne in faire weather … untill it bee sufficiently clarified,… which will be in twelve or fourteen daies, if there be faire Sunne shining.
1840. Florist’s Jrnl. (1846), I. 229. Embrace every opportunity of sun-shining, to give air.
b. To set a sunshining: to place in the sunshine; fig. to expose to view, display.
1601. Dent, Pathw. Heaven (1617), 35. God hath not giuen such gifts vnto men, to the end they should make sale-ware of them, and set them a sunshining to behold.
