Sŭn′shīne1, n.
n. 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 the equator. Milton.
Sense 2. The state of being warmed and illuminated by the rays of the sun, or as if by the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination.
The man that sits within a monarch’s heart, And ripens in the sunshine of his favor. Shak.