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ntral floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.

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.

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

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. [Written also brestsummer and bressummer.]

See Breastsummer.

The middle of summer. Shak. Midsummer daisy (Bot.), the oxeye daisy.

See Transom, 2.

Of or belonging to the summer; as, æstival diseases. [Spelt also estival.]

To spend the summer.

The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation.

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

cession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC…