<B>summerhouse, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a building in a park or flower garden to afford shade and shelter from showers in the summer. Summerhouses often have a railing but no walls. </DL>
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<B>summer house,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a home for the summer. </DL>
<B>summerless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having no summer; without summer weather. <BR> <I>Ex. In the high latitudes, in the vicinity of the poles, are the summerless polar regions (Finch and Trewartha).</I> </DL>
<B>summer oil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a thick oil for use in automobile engines during hot weather. </DL>
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<B>summer resort,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a place in the mountains, on a lake, at the seashore, or other place of recreation, where people go in the summer. <BR> <I>Ex. The islands have become summer resorts, and for the most part cottages and metal beach chairs stand where the vineyards once flourished (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<B>summer sausage,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> uncooked sausage that is smoked or dried by air. </DL>
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<B>summer savory,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an annual European herb of the mint family much used as a flavoring ingredient in cooking. </DL>
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<B>summer school,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a school conducted in the summer to help students make up credits or accelerate their studies toward a degree. <BR> <I>Ex. I will have to get some credits in summer school if I wish to teach in September.</I> </DL>
<B>summer solstice,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the solstice that occurs about June 21. It is the time in the Northern Hemisphere when the sun is farthest north from the equator. In the Southern Hemisphere this is the winter solstice. <DD><B> 2. </B>the northernmost point of the ecliptic, which the sun reaches at this time. It is now in the constellation Gemini. </DL>
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<B>summer squash,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various squashes that ripen quickly and are intended to be eaten while the skins are still tender, such as the crookneck squash or the zucchini. </DL>
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<B>summer stock,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a theatrical stock company that performs during the summer. <BR> <I>Ex. Many famous actors began their careers as stagehands in summer stock.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the repertory or theater of such a company. </DL>
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<B>summer sweet,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a shrub of the eastern United States with alternate, serrate leaves and racemes of fragrant, white or pink flowers. </DL>
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<B>summer tanager,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tanager of the southern United States, the male of which has rosy-red feathers. </DL>
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<B>summertide, </B>noun. =summertime.</DL>
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<B>summertime, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the season of summer; summer. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) any period in which energy is greatest or talent most productive. <BR> <I>Ex. in the summertime of life.</I> </DL>
<B>summer triangle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of three bright stars, Vega, Deneb, and Altair, especially prominent in summer. </DL>
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<B>summer wheat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any wheat of a variety that is planted in the spring, and ripens in the same summer; spring wheat. </DL>
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<B>summer White House,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a residence occupied in summer by the President of the United States. </DL>
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<B>summerwood, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a dark ring or layer of wood formed around a tree each summer, composed of relatively small, compact cells with thick walls; latewood. </DL>
<B>summing-up, </B>noun, pl. <B>summings-up.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of summarizing. <BR> <I>Ex. ... an opportunity for philosophical reflection or summing-up (Scientific American).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a summary. <BR> <I>Ex. It is read in the Netherlands as a summing-up of the experiences of so many Hollanders (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a recapitulation of the chief points of the evidence to a jury before it retires to consider a verdict. <BR> <I>Ex. The Judge, resuming his summing-up yesterday, said ... (Sunday Times).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) an estimate of the qualities or character of a person or thing; size-up. <BR> <I>Ex. The profile of President Lowell is the fairest, saltiest summing-up I have ever read (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>summist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a medieval writer of a summary or compendium, especially of theology, such as Saint Thomas Aquinas. </DL>
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<B>summit, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the highest point, as of a mountain or hill; topmost peak or ridge; top. <BR> <I>Ex. We could see the summit of a mountain twenty miles away.</I> (SYN) pinnacle, zenith. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>the topmost part of anything; apex. <BR> <I>Ex. The summits of emotion can only be reached at rare intervals (W. Somerset Maugham). It is sometimes necessary at the summit of authority ... to remain calm when others panic (Sir Winston Churchill).</I> (SYN) pinnacle, zenith. <DD><B> b. </B>the highest point of ambition, hope, skill, energy, or other accomplishment; acme. <BR> <I>Ex. The summit of her ambition was to be an actress.</I> (SYN) pinnacle, zenith. <DD><B> 3. </B>the highest level of authority, especially the leaders of individual governments, as dealing in international affairs. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) a conference at the highest level; summit meeting. <BR> <I>Ex. A Foreign Ministers' Conference ... might be allowed as much as two months to prepare for a "summit" (Sunday Times).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a summit meeting. <BR> <I>Ex. summit talks, summit decisions.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>at the summit,</B> </I>at the level of diplomacy involving heads of government; at the highest level. <BR> <I>Ex. Fruitful negotiations on East-West tension can be achieved only at the summit (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>summital, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a summit. </DL>
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<B>summiteer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a participant in a summit meeting. <BR> <I>Ex. The summiteers signed a series of accords on cooperation in medicine, pollution control, science, and space flights (Pittsburgh Press).</I> </DL>
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<B>summitless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having no summit. </DL>
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<B>summit meeting</B> or <B>conference,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a meeting between heads of governments, especially for the purpose of settling disagreements and lessening international tensions. <BR> <I>Ex. All the big European questions were taken up by the "summit" conference at Geneva (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>summitry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the conducting of summit meetings. <BR> <I>Ex. He is one of the old hands at Commonwealth summitry, having attended the 1953 conference shortly after succeeding his late father as Prime Minister (Manchester Guardian).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>summit meetings. </DL>
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<B>summon, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to call with authority; order to come; send for. <BR> <I>Ex. to summon men to defend their country. Summon the children to dinner. A telegram summoned him home. (Figurative.) It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to call together by authority for action or deliberation; convoke. <BR> <I>Ex. to summon a legislative body.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to order or notify formally to appear before a court or judge, especially to answer a charge. <DD><B> 4. </B>to call upon to do something. <BR> <I>Ex. The church bells summon people to worship.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to call upon (a fort, army, or other group or installation) to surrender. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Figurative.) to stir to action or effort; call up; arouse. <BR> <I>Ex. He summoned his courage and entered the deserted house.</I> adj. <B>summonable.</B> </DL>
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<B>summoner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who summons. <DD><B> 2. </B>(formerly) a petty officer whose duty was to warn persons to appear in court. </DL>
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<B>summons, </B>noun, pl. <B>-monses,</B> verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>a formal order or notice to appear before a law court or judge, especially to answer a charge. <DD><B> b. </B>the writ (writ of summons) by which such an order is made. <BR> <I>Ex. He received a summons for fast driving.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an urgent call for the presence or attendance of a person; a summoning command, knock, message, or signal. <BR> <I>Ex. I hurried in response to my friend's summons for help. Death is a common friend or foe ... And at his summons each must go (M. J. Barry).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>an authoritative call to appear at a place named, or to attend to some public duty. <DD><B> 4. </B>a call to do something, especially to surrender. <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Informal.) to take out a summons against; summon to court. <BR> <I>Ex. Say another word and I'll summons you (Dickens).</I> </DL>
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<B>summum bonum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) the highest or ultimate good. <BR> <I>Ex. Bentham, the founder of Utilitarianism, ... held as the summum bonum the greatest good for the greatest number and believed that there was no limit to the benefits a good education could confer (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
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<B>summum genus,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) the highest genus or class. </DL>
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<B>summum jus,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) the strictest law or legal right. </DL>
