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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Summered :: Summer (n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
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..
Teleutospore :: Teleutospore (n.) The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore..
Summering :: Summered (imp. & p. p.) of Summe.
Heat :: Heat (n.) High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc..
Aestivate :: Aestivate (v. i.) To pass the summer in a state of torpor.
Fallow Deer :: Fallow deer () A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks..
Summist :: Summery (a.) Of or pertaining to summer; like summer; as, a summery day..
Summer :: Summering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Summe.
Thryfallow :: Thryfallow (v. t.) To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow.
Gazeebo :: Gazeebo (n.) A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive prospect.
Summerliness :: Summerhouse (n.) A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer..
Sheeling :: Sheeling (n.) A hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed..
Breastsummer :: Breastsummer (n.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows..
Isothere :: Isothere (n.) A line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean summer temperature.
Chalet :: Chalet (n.) A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.
Cancer :: Cancer (n.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic..
Summery :: Summertree (n.) A summer. See 2d Summer.
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..
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..
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