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Solstice
·vi A stopping or standing still of the sun. II. Solstice ·vi The time of the sun's passing the sol...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Summer
·v One who sums; one who casts up an <<Account>>. II. Summer ·vi To pass the summer; to spend the w...

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winter-solstice
See capricornus. ...

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

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summer-bird
n. the Old Colonists' name for the Wood-swallows. See Swallow. In Tasmania it isapplied to a specie...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
summer country
n. In New Zealand (South Island), country which can be used in summer only; mountainland in Otago a...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
indian summer
A period of warm weather late in autumn, when it is said, the Indians go hunting to supply themselve...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
summer-goos
the Gossamer. North. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
summer-blink
A transient gleam of sunshine in bad weather. ...

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summer couts
A northern name for the aurora borealis. ...

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