Now rare. [f. SUNSHINE sb. + -ING2.]
1. = SUNSHINY 1, 2. Also fig.
1608. Topsell, Serpents, 205. A siluer-coloured Lyzard … living in dry and sunne-shining places.
a. 1618. Raleigh, Prerog. Parl., 39. When those of the high Countreyes desired raine, and those of the valleyes sunshining dayes.
1657. J. Watts, Scribe, Pharisee, etc., III. 51. Those sunshining dayes of Christ Jesus.
1764. Museum Rust., II. xxxiii. 108. In fine sun-shining weather.
1819. Shelley, Lett. to Peacock, 26 Jan. The multitudinous shafts of the sun-shining columns.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 24 Feb., 2/1. In one place it would be bright and sunshining: in another a snowstorm might be raging.
2. Shining as the sun.
1628. [A. Leighton], Appeal to Parl., 207. This cloud being dispersed by the irresistable heat of your Sunshining zeal.
