Word Meanings - SUNBLINK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A glimpse or flash of the sun. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to SUNBLINK)

• FLASHING
  The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• FLASH
  1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. 2. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary
• GLIMPSE
  1. A sudden flash; transient luster. LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran. Milton. 2. A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight. Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen. S. Rogers. 3. A faint idea; an
• FLASHY
  1. Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow. 2. Fiery; vehement; impetuous. A temper always flashy. Burke. 3. Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress. 4. Without
• FLASH BURNER
  A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• FLASH BOILER
  A variety of water-tube boiler, used chiefly in steam automobiles, consisting of a nest of strong tubes with very little water space, kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam
• FLASHILY
  In a flashy manner; with empty show.
• FLASHINESS
  The quality of being flashy.
• FLASHBOARD
  A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• FLASHER
  1. One who, or that which, flashes. 2. A man of more appearance of wit than reality. A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas The European red-backed shrile ; -- called also flusher.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• SIDEFLASH
  A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.