summer

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun One who sums; one who casts up an account.
• To pass the summer or warm season.
• To keep or carry through the summer.
• To feed during the summer, as cattle.
• noun The warmest season of the year: in the United States reckoned as the months June, July, and August; in Great Britain as May, June, and July. See season.
• noun A whole year as represented by the summer; a twelvemonth: as, a child of three summers.
• Of or pertaining to summer: as, summer heat; hence, sunny and warm.
• The green sandpiper.
• The dunlin or purre.
• noun A pack-horse; a sumpter-horse.
• noun In building: A large timber or beam laid as a bearing-beam. See cuts under beam, 1.
• noun A girder.
• noun A brest-summer.
• noun A large stone, the first that is laid upon a column or pilaster in the construction of an arch, or of several arches uniting upon one impost, as in the ribs of groined vaulting.
• noun A stone laid upon a column to receive a haunch of a plat-band.
• noun A lintel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who sums; one who casts up an account.
• noun (Arch.) 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.
• transitive verb To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer.
• intransitive verb To pass the summer; to spend the warm season.
• noun The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
• noun in North America, a period of warm weather late in autumn, usually characterized by a clear sky, and by a hazy or smoky appearance of the atmosphere, especially near the horizon. The name is derived probably from the custom of the Indians of using this time in preparation for winter by laying in stores of food.
• noun See under Saint.
• noun (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] the wryneck.
• noun [Eng.] the undulating state of the air near the surface of the ground when heated.
• noun (Med.) a popular term for any diarrheal disorder occurring in summer, especially when produced by heat and indigestion.
• noun (Zoöl.), [Local, U.S.] the American gallinule.
• noun (Bot.) an annual plant (Kochia Scoparia) of the Goosefoot family. It has narrow, ciliate, crowded leaves, and is sometimes seen in gardens.
• noun (Zoöl.) The garganey, or summer teal. See Illust. of Wood duck, under Wood.
• noun land uncropped and plowed, etc., during the summer, in order to pulverize the soil and kill the weeds.
• noun (Med.) prickly heat. See under Prickly.
• noun (Zoöl.), [Local, U.S.] the hooded merganser.
• noun (Zoöl.) The green sandpiper.
• noun (Zoöl.) a singing bird (Piranga rubra) native of the Middle and Southern United States. The male is deep red, the female is yellowish olive above and yellow beneath. Called also summer redbird.
• noun wheat that is sown in the spring, and matures during the summer following. See Spring wheat.
• noun (Zoöl.) See Yellowbird.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A person who sums.
• noun obsolete A pack-horse.
• noun A horizontal beam supporting a building.
• noun One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 22 to September 23 in parts of the USA, and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
• verb intransitive To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
• noun the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty
• verb spend the summer