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Webster 1913 Edition


Sunbeam

Sun′beamˊ

,
Noun.
[AS.
sunnebeam
.]
A beam or ray of the sun.
“Evening sunbeams.”
Keble.
Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even
On a
sunbeam
.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sunbeam

SUN'BEAM

,
Noun.
[sun and beam.] A ray of the sun. Truth written with a sunbeam, is truth made obviously plain.
Gliding through the even on a sunbeam.