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Sun
Sun [Sunna (Sax. and Teut.) Soune (Du. and G.) It is remarkable, that in opposition to other languages, in the northern tongues,
the Sun is of the feminine, and the moon of the masculine gender, tho’ the former be active,
and the latter passive.
Whence the poet: Nec femininum Soli dedecus, nec masculinum Lunæ Gloria.
The Sun however in the Persian tongue, is either masculine or feminine, and in the Arabick, femenine.] the efficient, illuminator, and ruler of the day, a glorious planet, the spring of
light and heat.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Suck-stone *
The Sun of Righteousness