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Summer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who casts up an account.

2. With us, the season of the year comprehended in the months June, July and August; during which time, the sun being north of the equator, shines more directly upon this part of the earth, which, together with the increased length of the days, renders this the hottest period of the year. In latitudes south of the equator, just the opposite takes place, or it is summer there when it is winter here.

3. The entire year is also sometimes divided into summer and winter, the former signifying the warmer and the latter the colder part of the year.

4. A large stone, the first that is laid over columns and pilasters, beginning to make a cross vault; or a stone laid over a column, and hollowed to receive the first haunce of a platband.

5. A large timber supported on two stone piers or posts, serving as a lintel to a door or window, etc.

6. A large timber or beam laid as a central floor timber, inserted into the girders, and receiving the ends of the joists and supporting them. This timber is seen in old buildings in America and in France. In America, it is wholly laid aside. It is called in England summer-tree.

Summer [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To pass the summer or warm season.

2. The fowls shall summer upon them. Isaiah 18:6 .

Summer [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To keep warm. [Little used.]

Summer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.

Summer [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who sums; one who casts up an account.

Summer [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.

Summer [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.

Summer-colt [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The undulating state of the air near the surface of the ground when heated. [Not used in America.]

Summer-cypress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant, a species of Chenopodium.

Summer-fallow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Naked fallow; land lying bare of crops in summer.

Summer-fallow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To plow and work repeatedly in summer, to prepare for wheat or other crop.

Summer-fallow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Summer-house [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A house or apartment in a garden to be used in summer.

2. A house for summer's residence.

Summer-wheat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Spring wheat.

Summered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Summer

Summerhouse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Summerhouses [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Summerhouse

Summering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Summer

Summerliness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being like summer.

Summersault [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Summerset

Summerset [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A high leap in which the heels are thrown over the head.

Summerset [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Somersault, Somerset.

Summerstir [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To summer-fallow.

Summertide [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Summer time.

Summertree [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A summer. See 2d Summer.

Summery [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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29 KJV and 25 BSB verses contain “summer” — showing the first 20. Show all 29 verses (searchable)

Genesis 8:22

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

Judges 3:20

And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.

Judges 3:24

When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.

After Ehud was gone, Eglon’s servants came in and found the doors of the upper room locked. “He must be relieving himself in the cool room,” they said.

2 Samuel 16:1

And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

2 Samuel 16:2

And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.

“Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”

Psalms 32:4

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

Psalms 74:17

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.

Proverbs 6:8

Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.

Proverbs 10:5

He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

Proverbs 26:1

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor does not befit a fool.

Proverbs 30:25

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;

Isaiah 16:9

Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.

Isaiah 18:6

They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.

Isaiah 28:4

And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.

Jeremiah 8:20

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

Jeremiah 40:10

As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”

Jeremiah 40:12

Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.

Jeremiah 48:32

O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.

Daniel 2:35

Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Amos 3:15

And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.