sunstead

Noun

1. A solstice.
   • Now was it the season of the yeer past sun-stead in summer and neer unto the houre of noon-stead in the day, so as they journeyed in a way full of dust, when the sun was exceeding hot; and even now they began to feel...
   • The summer-sunnestead falleth out alwaies [in Italie] to be just upon the foure and twentie day of June, at what time as the sunne is entred eight degrees within Cancer. - 1635, Pliny the Elder; Philemon Holland,...
   • Sun-ſteads or Tropicks - 1657, Plutarch, “The Table”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals, Written by the Learned Philosopher, Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into...