Definition of summer

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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..

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Sike :: Sike (n.) A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer..
Linnet :: Linnet (n.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria)
Aestivate :: Aestivate (v. i.) To spend the summer.
Aestivation :: Aestivation (n.) The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation..
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..
Swarm :: Swarm (v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer..
Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country..
Transom :: Transom (n.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer..
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..
Isotherombrose :: Isotherombrose (n.) A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall..
Summersault :: Summerliness (n.) The quality or state of being like summer.
Summer :: Summering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Summe.
"""cymbling " :: Cymbling (n.) A scalloped or pattypan variety of summer squash..
Succeed :: Succeed (v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer..
Transsummer :: Transsummer (n.) See Transom, 2..
Uredo :: Uredo (n.) One of the stages in the life history of certain rusts (Uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See Uredinales, in the Supplement..
Summertree :: Summertide (n.) Summer time.
Fervent :: Fervent (a.) Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer..
Outing :: Outing (n.) The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing..
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..
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