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  • English Word Sumach Definition The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing.
  • English Word Sumatran Definition Of or pertaining to Sumatra or its inhabitants.
  • English Word Sumatran Definition A native of Sumatra.
  • English Word Sumbul Definition The musky root of an Asiatic umbelliferous plant, Ferula Sumbul. It is used in medicine as a stimulant.
  • English Word Sumless Definition Not to be summed up or computed; so great that the amount can not be ascertained; incalculable; inestimable.
  • English Word Summaries Definition of Summary
  • English Word Summarily Definition In a summary manner.
  • English Word Summarist Definition One who summarized.
  • English Word Summarize Definition To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.
  • English Word Summary Definition Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.
  • English Word Summary Definition Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.
  • English Word Summary Definition A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.
  • English Word Summation Definition The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate.
  • English Word Summed Definition of Sum
  • English Word Summer Definition One who sums; one who casts up an account.
  • English Word Summer Definition 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.
  • English Word Summer Definition The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
  • English Word Summer Definition To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.
  • English Word Summer Definition To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.
  • English Word Summer-fallow Definition To plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow.
  • English Word Summered Definition of Summer
  • English Word Summerhouse Definition A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer.
  • English Word Summerhouses Definition of Summerhouse
  • English Word Summering Definition of Summer
  • English Word Summerliness Definition The quality or state of being like summer.
  • English Word Summersault Definition Alt. of Summerset
  • English Word Summerset Definition See Somersault, Somerset.
  • English Word Summerstir Definition To summer-fallow.
  • English Word Summertide Definition Summer time.
  • English Word Summertree Definition A summer. See 2d Summer.