ˈsummer-tide Now chiefly poet.
[Cf. WFris. simmertiid, NFris. sumartidj, MLG. sommertyd, LG. sommertît, OHG. sumarzît (MHG. sumerzît, G. sommerzeit).]
= summer-time 1.
| c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 1224 He flemede agar and ysmael In sumertid. 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 903 Whan hyt come to somer tyde,..Here vynys florshede feyre & weyl. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 328 Whan the world is woxe grene And comen is the Somertide. c 1420 ? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 334 Grene as any gresse in the somertyde. a 1513 Fabyan Chron. vii. (1811) 482 In this yere, folowynge the somertyde in Guyan. 1566 Sternhold & H. Ps., Benedicite, Ye winter and the sommer tyde. |
| 1800 Wordsw. Hart-leap Well 150 Asleep he sank, Lulled by the fountain in the summer-tide. 1873 Geikie Gt. Ice Age x. 125 The arctic sun, which shines day and night during the whole summertide. 1891 Morris Poems by the Way 123 Ask the Summer-tide to prove The abundance of my love. |