[f. SUNBURN v. OE. had sunbryne.] The condition of being sunburnt; discoloration or superficial inflammation of the skin caused by exposure to the sun; the brown color or tan thus produced.
1652. Cotterell, trans. Calprenède’s Cassandra, I. ii. (1676), 2. The sunburn and toil of a long journey had … taken off the lustre of his former beauty.
1820. Good, Nosology, 505. Ephelis. Cuticle tawny by exposure to the sun; often spotted with dark freckles,… Sun-burn.
1852. Hawthorne, Blithedale Rom., viii. Our faces took the sunburn kindly.
1895. Ella Hepworth Dixon, in Pall Mall Mag., 291. A big, bronzed, military-looking man, with a heavy jaw and a crooked line of sunburn across his forehead.
1896. Baden-Powell, Matabele Campaign, xvi. I found that my right knee and thigh have their beautiful … surface marred by eight … blotches of ruddy sunburn.
transf. 1891. Miss Dowie, Girl in Karp., 134. He was incapacitated three days with sunburn in his muscles.
1893. Kate Sanborn, A Truthful Woman S. California, 93. Another morning you may stumble out trying to rub yesterday’s sunburn from your eyes, and find everything below curtained by a bank of snowy fog.
b. In plants: = HELIOSIS 2.
1866. Treas. Bot.
1896. Lodeman, Spray. Plants, 364. Leaf Blight; Rust; Sunburn (Sphœrella Fragariæ., Sacc.).
