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Of or pertaining to summer; like summer; as, a summery day.

One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary. Sir E. Dering.

The top; the highest point. Fixed on the summit of the highest mount. Shak.

Having no summit.

The height or top of anything. [Obs.] Swift.

To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Shak. Trumpets summon him to war. Dryden.

One who summons; one who cites by authority; specifically, a petty officer formerly employed to summon persons to appear in court; an apparitor.

The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty. Special summonses by the king. Hallam. This summons . . . unfit either to dispute or disobey. Bp. Fell. He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon…

The supreme or highest good, -- referring to the object of human life.

A summoner. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

See Simoom.

A puddle or dirty pool. [Prov. Eng.] Sump fuse, a fuse used in blasting under water. -- Sump men (Mining), the men who sink the sump in a mine.

A dunce; a blockhead. [Scot.]

A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.

Carrying pack or burdens on the back; as, a sumpter horse; a sumpter mule. Bacon.

A taking. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Relating to expense; regulating expense or expenditure. Bacon. Sumptuary laws or regulations, laws intended to restrain or limit the expenditure of citizens in apparel, food, furniture, etc.; laws which regulate the prices of commodities and the wages of labor; laws which forbid or restrict the use of certain articles,…

Expensiveness; costliness; sumptuousness. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

rge outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel. We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance. Atterbury. She spoke, and turned her sumptuous head, with eyes Of shining expectation fixed on mine. Tennyson. -- Sum…

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.