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; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12. Take ye the sum of all the congregation. Num. i. 2.

The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing. Poison sumac. (Bot.) See under Poison.

A thin, elastic, uniformly light-colored tobacco leaf, raised in Sumatra and extensively used for cigar wrappers.

Of or pertaining to Sumatra or its inhabitants. -- n.

The musky root of an Asiatic umbelliferous plant, Ferula Sumbul. It is used in medicine as a stimulant. [Written also sumbal.] -- Sum*bul"ic, a.

Of or pertaining to the region of lower Babylonia, which was anciently called Sumer, or its inhabitants or their language.

Not to be summed up or computed; so great that the amount can not be ascertained; incalculable; inestimable. "Sumless treasure." Pope.

In a summary manner.

One who summarized.

To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly. Chambers.

Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.

The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate. Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect. De Quincey.

One who sums; one who casts up an account.

To plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow.

A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer. Shak.

The quality or state of being like summer. [R.] Fuller.

See Somersault, Somerset.

To summer-fallow.

Summer time.

A summer. See 2d Summer.