Sum

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Height; completion; utmost degree.

II. Sum ·noun A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.

III. Sum ·vt To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.

IV. Sum ·noun A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.

V. Sum ·vt To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to Condense;

— usually with up.

VI. Sum ·vt To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of;

— usually with up.

VII. Sum ·noun The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.

VIII. Sum ·noun The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.

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