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Colza :: Colza (n.) A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape..

Nocturne :: Nocturne (n.) A night piece, or serenade. The name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's Midsummer-Night's Dream music..

Climate :: Climate (v. i.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day..

Ptarmigan :: Ptarmigan (n.) Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter..

Thryfallow :: Thryfallow (v. t.) To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow.

Summerhouses :: Summer-fallow (v. t.) To plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow..

Chalet :: Chalet (n.) A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

Brestsummer :: Brestsummer (n.) See Breastsummer.

Plaice :: Plaice (n.) A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species..

Gazeebo :: Gazeebo (n.) A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive prospect.

Fallow :: Fallow (n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds..

Dog Days :: Dog days () A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer..

Allhallown :: Allhallown (a.) Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [Obs.] Allhallown summer. Shak. (i. e., late summer; Indian Summer)..

Fimble Hemp :: Fimble hemp () Light summer hemp, that bears no seed..

Summertide :: Summerstir (v. t.) To summer-fallow.

Summertree :: Summertide (n.) Summer time.

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Amadavat :: Amadavat (n.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill..

Harvest :: Harvest (n.) The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn..

Teleutospore :: Teleutospore (n.) The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore..

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