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sunset (iou) and paxilla (iou)


sunset (iou)



sunset noun & verb. LME.
[App. from SUN noun1 + SET noun1, but perh. partly (like SUNRISE) from a subjunct. clause such as before the sun set.]
A. noun.
The setting of the sun at the end of the day; the time of this; the coloured or illuminated sky associated with sunset; the direction of sunset, the west. LME.
go off into the sunset, ride off into the sunset, sail off into the sunset [from a conventional closing scene of many films] (freq. iron.) achieve a happy ending.
H. B. Stowe One of those intensely golden sunsets which kindles the..horizon into one blaze of glory.
fig. The end or declining period of a time of prosperity, a person's life, etc. E17.
J. R. Illingworth The gloom that darkens, or the hope that glorifies the sunset of our days.
Comb.: sunset Home (chiefly US) an old people's Home; sunset industry an old and declining (esp. heavy) industry; sunset law, sunset legislation N. Amer. Politics: whereby a government agency or programme is automatically terminated at the end of a fixed period unless formally renewed; sunset shell a burrowing bivalve mollusc of the genus Gari, with a long oval shell which (in some kinds) is pinkish with ray-like markings.
b. verb. Infl. -tt-.
verb intrans. Decline, sink. rare. M20.
verb trans. N. Amer. Politics. Subject to or terminate by means of sunset legislation. L20.
sunsetting noun (arch.) = SUNSET noun 1 LME.
sunsetty adjective suggestive of sunset M19.

paxilla (iou)



paxilla noun. . L19.
[mod. Latin, from Latin paxillus small stake, peg.]
Zoology. A raised ossicle in some starfishes bearing hinged spines which may be lowered to create a cavity next to the aboral surface.
paxillar adjective of or pertaining to paxillae E20.
paxi'lliferous adjective = paxillose M19.
paxilliform adjective having the shape of a paxilla L19.
paxillose adjective bearing paxillae E20.