apricot blossoms

Apricot-tinged clouds bring up our under-appreciated word of the week:
apricate (v). To bask in the sunlight.

Two fine examples from the OED:

His lordship was wont to recreate himself in this place, to apricate and contemplate.(1697) Aubrey in Halliwell at Toms-of-Bedlam.

Not sunning, but mooning himself—apricating himself in the occasional moonbeams.(1839) T. De Quincey W. Wordsworth and R. Southey in Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 461/2.

Feeling under apricated this summer?