. (Eccl.) The first Sunday after Easter Sunday, properly Albless Sunday, because in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + sunder. ] Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. [ 1913 Webster ]

I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. Zech. xi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

As wide asunder as pole and pole. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dissundered p. pr. & vb. n. Dissundering. ] [ Pref. dis- (intens) + sunder. ] To separate; to sunder; to destroy. [ R. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. The fourth Sunday of Lent; -- so named from the Latin word Lætare (rejoice), the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the Roman Catholic service. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Misunderstood p. pr. & vb. n. Misunderstanding. ] To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who misunderstands. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. “Misunderstandings among friends.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Eccl.) The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way. The event is commemorated in Christian churches by distribution of blessed palm leaves. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. Sunbeam. [ R. ] Mrs. Hemans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. sunnandaeg; sunne, gen. sunnan, the sun + daeg day; akin to D. zondag, G. sonntag; -- so called because this day was anciently dedicated to the sun, or to its worship. See Sun, and Day. ] The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day. [ 1913 Webster ]

Advent Sunday,
Low Sunday,
Passion Sunday, etc. See under Advent, Low, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Sabbath. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to the Christian Sabbath. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sunday letter. See Dominical letter, under Dominical. --
Sunday school. See under School. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sundered p. pr. & vb. n. Sundering. ] [ OE. sundren, AS. sundrain (in āsundrain, gesundrain), from sundor asunder, separately, apart; akin to D. zonder, prep., without, G. sonder separate, as prep., without, sondern but, OHG. suntar separately, Icel. sundr asunder, Sw. & Dan. sönder, Goth. sundrō alone, separately. ] To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To part; to separate. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sunder, v. t., and cf. Asunder. ] A separation into parts; a division or severance. [ 1913 Webster ]

In sunder, into parts. “He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder.” Ps. xlvi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To expose to the sun and wind. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sundial shell (Zool.), any shell of the genus Solarium. See Solarium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Meteorol.) 1. A luminous spot occasionally seen a few degrees from the sun, supposed to be formed by the intersection of two or more halos, or in a manner similar to that of halos. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fragmentary rainbow; a small rainbow near the horizon; -- called also dog and weathergaw. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. The setting of the sun; sunset. “When sundown skirts the moor.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of broad-brimmed sun hat worn by women. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

Sundowners, -- men who loaf about till sunset, and then come in with the demand for unrefusable rations. Francis Adams. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl. Many different or small things; sundry things. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In sundry ways; variously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sun + drop. ] (Bot.) Any one of the several species of Kneiffia, esp. Kneiffia fruticosa (syn. Oenothera fruticosa), of the Evening-primrose family, having flowers that open by daylight. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ OE. sundry, sondry, AS. syndrig, fr. sundor asunder. See Sunder, v. t. ] 1. Several; divers; more than one or two; various. “Sundry wines.” Chaucer. “Sundry weighty reasons.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With many a sound of sundry melody. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sundry foes the rural realm surround. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Separate; diverse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Every church almost had the Bible of a sundry translation. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

All and sundry, all collectively, and each separately. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Sundrymen One who deals in sundries, or a variety of articles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ White + Sunday. ] 1. (Eccl.) The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) See the Note under Term, n., 12. [ 1913 Webster ]