sb. [f. as prec. + BURNING vbl. sb.] ‘Burning’ by exposure to the sun; sunburn.
1530. Palsgr., 272/2. Sonne burnyng, hasle.
1535. Coverdale, Isa. iii. 24. In steade of a stomacher, a sack cloth, and for their bewty wythrednesse and sonneburnynge.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., V. ii. 154. If thou canst loue a fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth Sunne-burning … take me.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect., xi. Wks. 1851, III. 314. Those thanks in the womans Churching for her delivery from Sunburning and Moonblasting.
1680. T. K., Kitchin-Physician, 10. This Pomade takes away Sun-burning.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), V. 699. Blemishes which have no connexion with sun-burning.
1900. D. S. Margoliouth, in Expositor, Jan., 34. Swarthiness produced by sunburning.
So Sunburning a. rare–1.
1555. Latimer, in Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1721), III. App. xxxvi. 99. A little heate or sun-burning wether.
