Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sunrising"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Sunrise \Sun"rise`\, Sunrising \Sun"ris`ing\, n.
1. The first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the
morning; more generally, the time of such appearance,
whether in fair or cloudy weather; as, to begin work at
sunrise. ``The tide of sunrise swells.'' --Keble.

2. Hence, the region where the sun rises; the east.

Which were beyond Jordan toward the sunrising.
--Deut. iv. 47
(Rev. Ver.)

Full hot and fast the Saxon rides, with rein of
travel slack, And, bending o'ev his saddle, leaves
the sunrise at his back. --Whittier.


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