summed, ppl. a.
(sʌmd)
Forms: 5 ysomed, sommyd, summyd, 6 sommed, 6 soom'd, 6–7 somed, 7 somm'd, sum(m)d, summ'd, 5– summed; erron. 6 soomned, sumned, 7 sumn'd.
[In branch I, f. OF. som(m)é, pa. pple. of sommer to sum, complete, ad. med.L. summāre to sum. In branch II, f. sum v.1 + -ed1.]
I. 1. Of a stag: Having a complement of antlers. Said also of the antlers. Often full summed.
| c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) ii, Þei be halfe in greece or þere aboute þe tyme of mydel Iuny, whan her heed is ysomed. 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Hunting e j b, And afterwarde in the toppe when ther .iiii. bene Then shall ye call hym sommyd an hert of .xvi. 1576 Turberv. Venerie xiv, When his head is full sommed. Ibid. xviii, By the middest of Iune, their heades will be somed of as much as they will beare all that yeare. 1590 Cockaine Treat. Hunting D, It is then..hard to knowe him by his head, before it be full Soomned. 1623 Cockeram i. s.v. Pollard, Sumn'd or full, is when a Stags head is fully hardned. 1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd i. ii, [The deer] beares a head, Large, and well beam'd; with all rights somm'd and spred. |
2. Of a hawk: Having the feathers full grown. Said also of the plumage. Often full summed.
| c 1450 Bk. Hawking in Rel. Ant. I. 298 If he take colde ore he be full sommyd. 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Hawking a viij b, Thos same barris shall telle yow whan she is full summed or full fermyd. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 79 The yonge byrde whan she is full sumned & hath all her fethers redy to flye. 1575 Turberv. Falconrie 117 When..that hir principal feathers be ful sommed. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farm vii. xliv. 713 A cleere and bright plume, with ful summed feathers. 1649 G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, ccxxxiv, Like a young Eagle summ'd..Disdaines a shoale of Dawes. 1688 Holme Armoury ii. xi. 237/1. 1852 R. F. Burton Falconry Valley Indus iii. 21. |
b. fig. and in fig. context: Equipped.
| 1588 Lambarde Eiren. iv. xiv. 565 How each of these began at the first and grew in time to be full summed. 1600 W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 358 [Demosthenes was] a full sumd or consumate Orator. a 1616 Beaum. & Fl. Wit without M. iii. i, Till you be summed again. 1649 G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, ccxc, The first Summd Quill Of England. 1671 Milton P.R. i. 14 Inspire..my prompted Song else mute, And bear through highth or depth of natures bounds With prosperous wing full summ'd to tell of deeds Above Heroic. |
II. † 3. Summarized, summary. Obs.
| a 1653 G. Daniel Idyll, Designe 4 One Obiect in varietie, One Summ'd draught doth before yo{supu} Stand. |
4. Summed up; collected into one sum, forming a sum-total. Also with up.
| 1607 Chapman Bussy d'Ambois i. i. 19 Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance. 1858 Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. II. 20 The wholeness and summed-up beauty of woman. 1875 M{supc}Laren Serm. Ser. ii. ix. 164 Our summed and collective brightness. 1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 37 The summed-up impression of Sydney suburbs and harbour is..picturesqueness. |