ppl. a. [f. SUN v. + -ED1.] Exposed to, or subjected to the action of, the sun; warmed or dried in the sun; illumined by the sun, sunlit.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Jan., 77. The pensife boy … Arose, and homeward droue his sonned sheepe.
? 1605. Drayton, Poems Lyr. & Pastoral, Eglog vi. 118. Thou that … To drink at Auon driuest thy sunned sheep.
1850. T. Woolner, My Beautiful Lady, in Germ, No. 1. 2. The sunned bosom of a humming-bird.
1891. T. Hardy, Tess, xxvii. Having been lying down in her clothes she was warm as a sunned cat.
1893. Atlantic Monthly, Feb., 282/1. Over all the sunned but unwarmed sky bends its blue arch, as cold as the snowy fields and woods beneath it.
