Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUN'SHINE, n. [sun and shine.]

1. The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, or the place where they fall. But all sunshine, as when his beams at noon / Culminate from th' equator. – Milton.
2. A place warmed and illuminated; warmth; illumination. The man that sits within a monarch's heart, / And ripens in the sunshine of his favor. – Shak.