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One who sums; one who casts up an account.

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  1. v. One who sums; one who casts up an account.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
  4. v. i. To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.
  5. v. t. To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.
  6. n. the warmest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
  7. n. the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty
  8. v. spend the summer
  9. v:1/n:99 n. the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox n. the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty v. spend the summer