Sump"tu*a*ry (?), a. [L. sumptuarius, fr. sumptus expense, cost, fr.
sumere, sumptum, to take, use, spend; sub under + emere to take, buy:
cf. F. somptuaire. See Redeem.] Relating to expense; regulating expense
or expenditure. Bacon.
Sumptuary laws or regulations, laws intended to restrain or limit the
expenditure of citizens in apparel, food, furniture, etc.; laws which
regulate the prices of commodities and the wages of labor; laws which
forbid or restrict the use of certain articles, as of luxurious
apparel.
Sump`tu*os"i*ty (?), n. [L. sumptuositas: cf. F. somptuosité.]
Expensiveness; costliness; sumptuousness. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.
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Sump"tu*ous (?), a. [L. sumptuosus, fr. sumptus expanse, cost: cf. F.
somptueux. See Sumptuary.] Involving large outlay or expense; costly;
expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous
house or table; sumptuous apparel.
We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance.
Atterbury.
She spoke, and turned her sumptuous head, with eyes Of shining
expectation fixed on mine.
Tennyson.
-- Sump"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Sump"tu*ous*ness, n.
Sun (?), n. (Bot.) See Sunn.
Sun (?), n. [OE. sunne, sonne, AS. sunne; akin to OFries. sunne, D.
zon, OS. & OHG. sunna, G. sonne, Icel. sunna, Goth. sunna; perh. fr.
same root as L. sol. √297. Cf. Solar, South.] 1. The luminous
orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the
central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they
are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat.
Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its
diameter about 860,000.
Its mean apparent diameter as seen from the earth is 32′
4″, and it revolves on its own axis once in 25 days. Its mean
density is about one fourth of that of the earth, or 1.41, that of
water being unity. Its luminous surface is called the photosphere,
above which is an envelope consisting partly of hydrogen, called the
chromosphere, which can be seen only through the spectroscope, or at
the time of a total solar eclipse. Above the chromosphere, and
sometimes extending out millions of miles, are luminous rays or streams
of light which are visible only at the time of a total eclipse, forming
the solar corona.