1. [n]  the warmest season of the year; "they spent a lazy summer at the shore"
2. [v]  spend the summer; "We summered in Kashmir"

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Wharton called this companion novel to Ethan Frome, hot Ethan. The heroine, Charity Royall (unlike Ethan Frome), is determined to experience passion and engages in a tempestuous love affair with Lucius Harney, a young man who has drifted into the Berkshires during his college vacation. Eventually, Charity becomes pregnant. The novel reflects the easing of Wharton`s stern moral judgements, and is one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman`s sexual awakening. The author stated of her own work, I do not remember ever visualizing with more intensity the inner scene, or the creatures peopling it.

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1. \Sum"mer\, n. [From {Sum}, v.]
   One who sums; one who casts up an account.
   

2. \Sum"mer\, n. [F. sommier a rafter, the same word as
   sommier a beast of burden. See {Sumpter}.] (Arch.)
   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. \Sum"mer\, n. [OE. sumer, somer, AS. sumor, sumer; akin
   to OFries. sumur, D. zomer, OS. sumar, G. sommer, OHG. &
   Icel. sumar, Dan. sommer, Sw. sommar, W. haf, Zend hama, Skr.
   sam[=a] year. [root]292.]
   The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly
   upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
   Note: North of the equator summer is popularly taken to
         include the months of June, July, and August.
         Astronomically it may be considered, in the northern
         hemisphere, to begin with the summer solstice, about
         June 21st, and to end with the autumnal equinox, about
         September 22d.
   {Indian summer}, in North America, a period of warm weather
      late in autumn, usually characterized by a clear sky, and
      by a hazy or smoky appearance of the atmosphere,
      especially near the horizon. The name is derived probably
      from the custom of the Indians of using this time in
      preparation for winter by laying in stores of food.
   {Saint Martin's summer}. See under {Saint}.
   {Summer bird} (Zo["o]l.), the wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]
   {Summer colt}, the undulating state of the air near the
      surface of the ground when heated. [Eng.]
   {Summer complaint} (Med.), a popular term for any diarrheal
      disorder occurring in summer, especially when produced by
      heat and indigestion.
   {Summer coot} (Zo["o]l.), the American gallinule. [Local,
      U.S.]
   {Summer cypress} (Bot.), an annual plant ({Kochia Scoparia})
      of the Goosefoot family. It has narrow, ciliate, crowded
      leaves, and is sometimes seen in gardens.
   {Summer duck}. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) The wood duck.
   (b) The garganey, or summer teal. See Illust. of {Wood duck},
       under {Wood}.
   {Summer fallow}, land uncropped and plowed, etc., during the
      summer, in order to pulverize the soil and kill the weeds.
   {Summer rash} (Med.), prickly heat. See under {Prickly}.
   {Summer sheldrake} (Zo["o]l.), the hooded merganser. [Local,
      U.S.]
   {Summer snipe}. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) The dunlin.
   (b) The common European sandpiper.
   (c) The green sandpiper.
   {Summer tanager} (Zo["o]l.), a singing bird ({Piranga rubra})
      native of the Middle and Southern United States. The male
      is deep red, the female is yellowish olive above and
      yellow beneath. Called also {summer redbird}.
   {Summer teal} (Zo["o]l.), the blue-winged teal. [Local, U.S.]
   {Summer wheat}, wheat that is sown in the spring, and matures
      during the summer following. See {Spring wheat}.
   {Summer yellowbird}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Yellowbird}.
   

4. \Sum"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Summered}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Summering}.]
   To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer
   in Switzerland.
         The fowls shall summer upon them.        --Isa. xviii.
                                                  6.
   

5. \Sum"mer\, v. t.
   To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the
   summer; as, to summer stock.
   

String manipulation and pattern matching language by Klint & Sint at CWI in the late 1970s. It was recently used as the input and implementation language for the Dataflow Compiler Project at CWI.

["An Overview of the SUMMER Programming Language", Paul Klint, 7th POPL, ACM 1980, pp. 47-55].