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ˈsummer-tide Now chiefly poet.
[Cf. WFris. simmertiid, NFris. sumartidj, MLG. sommertyd, LG. sommertît, OHG. sumarzît (MHG. sumerzît, G. sommerzeit).]
= summer-time 1.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 1224 He flemede agar and ysmael In sumertid. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 903 Whan hyt come to somer tyde,..Here vynys florshede feyre & weyl. 1390Gower Conf. II. 328 Whan the world is woxe grene And comen is the Somertide. c1420? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 334 Grene as any gresse in the somertyde. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. (1811) 482 In this yere, folowynge the somertyde in Guyan. 1566Sternhold & H. Ps., Benedicite, Ye winter and the sommer tyde.
1800Wordsw. Hart-leap Well 150 Asleep he sank, Lulled by the fountain in the summer-tide. 1873Geikie Gt. Ice Age x. 125 The arctic sun, which shines day and night during the whole summertide. 1891Morris Poems by the Way 123 Ask the Summer-tide to prove The abundance of my love. |