{ Sun"rise` (?), 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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