now Popes Thus I have told thee all my state, and The judge brought Directed them to mind their brief, My story to the sum of earthly bliss, Nor spend their time to shew their reading → Which I enjoy. Milton. She 'd have a simmary proceeding. Swift. In saying ay or no, the very safety of our SU'MMARY. n. so from the adjective. ] country, and the sum of our well being, lies. Compendium ; abstract ; abridgment. L'Estrange We are entorc d from our most quiet sphere T. SUM. v. a. (sommer, French; from the By the rough torrent of occasion; noun.] And have the summary of all our griefs, 1. To compute; to collect particulars When cime shall serve, to shew in articles. into a total; to cast up. It has up em Sbakspeares In that comprehensive summary of our duty phatical. to God, there is no express mention thereof. You cast th' event of war, Rogers. And sumam'd th' account of chance. Şlakspeare. SU’MMER. n. s. (rumer, Saxon; somer, The high priest may sum the silver brought in. Kings. Durch. In sickness time will seem longer without a 1. The season in which the sun arrives at clock than with it; for the mind doch value the hither solstice. every moment, and then the hour doch rather Sometimes hach the brightest day a cloud; sum up the moments than divide the day. Bacon. And, after summer, evermore succeeds He that would reckon up all the accidents pre- The barren winter with his nipping cold. Sbakso ferments depend upon, may as well undertake Can't such things be, to count the sands, or sum up intinity. Souil. And overcome us like a summer's cloud, 2. To comprise; to comprehend; to col- Without our special wonder? Sbakspeare, lect into a narrow compass. An hundred of summer fruits. 2 Samuel So lovely fair! He was sitting in a summer parlour. Judges. That what seem'd fair in all the world, seem'd In all the liveries deck'd of summer's pride. Miltona, They marl and sow it with wheat, giving it a Mean, or in her summ’d up, in her contain’d. Milton. summer fallowing first, and next year sow it with To conclude, by summing up what I would pease. Mortimer. Dry weather is best for most summer corn. say concerning what I have, and what I have Mortimer. not been; in the following paper I shall not The dazzling roofs, Resplendent as the blaze of summer noon, Child of the sun, Thomsen. L'Estrange. See sultry summer comes. This Atlas must our sinking state uphold; 2. [Trabs summaria.] The principal beam In council cool, but in performance bold: of a floor. He sums their virtues in himself alone, Oak, and the like true hearty timber, may be And adds the greatest, of a loyal son. Drølen. better trusted in cross and transverse works for A fine evidence summ'dup among you! Dryd. summe:5, or girders, or binding beams. Woiton. 3. [In falconry.) To have feathers full Then enter'd sin, and with that sycamore, Whose leaves first shelter'd man from drought grown. With prosperous wing full summ’d. Milton. and dew, SU'MACH-TREE. 1. s. (sumach, French.] Working and winding slily evermore, The inward walls and summers cleft and tore; A plant. The flowers are used in dying, But grace shor'd these, and cut that as it grew. and the branches for tanning, in Ame Herbert. rica. Miller. To SU'MMER, v. n. (from the noun.] To SU'M LESS. adj. [from sum.] Not to be pass the summer. computed. The fowls shall summer upon them, and ail the Make his chronicle as rich with prize, beasts shall winter upon them. Isaiah. As is the ouzy bottom of the sea TO SU'MMER. V. a. To keep warm. With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. Maids well summer'd, and warm kept, are like Sbakspeare. flies at Bartholomew-ride, blind, though they A sumless journey of incorporeal speed. Milt. Siukspeare, Above, beneath, around the palace shines The sumless treasure of exhausted mines. Pupe. SUMMERHOUSE.n. s. [from summer and SU'MMARILY. adv. (from summary.] house.] An apartment in a garden used in the summer. Briefly; the shortest way: I'd rather live The decalogue of Moses declareth summarily those things which we ought to do; the prayer With cheese and garlick, in a windmill, far, Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me, of our Lord, whatsoever we should request or Hooker. In any summerhouse in Christendom. Sbakspeare. With here a fountain never to be play'd, While we labour for these demonstrations out And there a summer bouse that knows no shade. of scripture, and do summarily declare the things Popr. which many ways have been spoken, be con There is so much virtue in eight volumes of to hear, and do not think my speech tedious. Hooker. Spectators, such a reverence of things sacred, so When the parties proceed summarily, and they many valuable remarks for our conduct in life, chuse the ordinary way of proceeding, the cause that they are not improper to lie in parlours or Ayliffe summerhouses, to entertain our thoughts in any moments of leisure. Watis. SUʻMMARY. adj. [sommaire, Fr. from Sü'MMERSAULT. n. s. [soubresault, Fr. sum.) Short ; brief; compendious, SU'MMERSET. Somerset ia a core Cc2 have their eyes. desire. tented quietly is made plenary. ruption.] A high leap in which the heels Sumpter mules, bred of large Flanders mares. Mortimer. are thrown over the head. Some do the summersault, SU'MPTION. n. s. [from sumptus, Latin.] And o'er the bar like tumblers vault. Hudibras. The act of taking. Not in use. Frogs are observed to use divers summersaults. The sumption of the mysteries does all in a Walton. capable subject. Taylor. And if at first he fail, his second summersault SU'MPTUARY. adj. [sumptuarius, Latin.] He instantly assays. Drayton. The treasurer cuts a caper on the strait rope: Relating to expence; regulating the cost I have seen him do the summerset upon a trencher of life. fixed on the rope, which is no ihicker than a To remove that material cause of sedition, common packthread. Srvift. which is want and poverty in the estate, serveth SU'MMIT. 1. s. (summitas, Lat.] The top; the opening and well balancing of trade, the the utmost height. banishing of idleness, the repressing of wasta and excess by sumptuary laws. Baron, Have I fall'n or no? --From the dread summit of this chalky bourn! SUMPTUO'SITY. n. s. [from sumptuous.] Look up a-height, the shrill-gorg'd lark so far Expensiveness; costliness. Not used. Cannot be seen or heard. Sbakspeare. He added sumptuosity, invented jewels of gold Ætna's heat, that makes the summit glow, and stone, and some engines for the war. Enriches all the vales below. Szeift. Raleigh. TO SU’MMON. v. a. (summonen, Lat.) SU’MPTUOUS. adj. (sumptuosus, from 1. To call with authority; to admonish sumptus, Latin.] Costly; expensive; to appear; to cite. splendid. Catesby, sound lord Hastings, We see how most christians stood then af. And summon him to-morrow to the Tower. fected, how joyful they were to behold the Sbakspeare. sumptuous stateliness of houses built unto God's The course of method summoneto me to dis glory. Hooker. sourse of the inhabitants. Carew, We are too magnificent and sumptuous in our The tirsan is assisted by the governour of the tables and attendance. Atterbury: sity where the feast is celebrated, and all the SU’MPTUOUS ! Y. adv. [from sumptuous.] persons of both sexes are summoned to attend. Bacon. 1. Expensively ; with great cost. Rely on what thou hast of virtue, sussimon all . This monument five hundred years hath stood, Milton. Which I have sumptuously re-edined. Sbaksø. Nor trumpets summon him to war, Ethelwold, bishop of Winchester, in a famine, Nor drums disturb his morning sleep. 'Dryden. sold all the rich vessels and ornaments of the We are summoned in to profess repentance and church, to relieve the poor with bread; and said, amendment of all our sins. Kettlervell. there was no reason that the dead temples of Love, duty, safety, summon us away; God should be sumptuously furnished, and the living teinples suffer penury. Bacen ”T is nature's voice, and nature we obey. Pope. 2. To excite; to call up; to raise: with 2. Splendidly. A good employment will make you live toler. up emphatical. ably in London, or sumptuously here. Swift When the blast of war blows in our ears, Stifen the sinews, summon up the blood. Sbaksp. SU'MPTUOUSNESS. n. s. [from sumptuous.] SUMMONER, n. s. [from suinmon.] One Expensiveness ; costliness. who cites; one who summons. I will not fall out with those that can reconcile Close pent-up guilts supipiuousness and charity. Boyle. Rive your concealing continents, and ask SUN. n. s. [sunno, Gothick; gunna, These dreadful summoners grace. Sbakspeare. sunne, Saxon; son, Dutch.] SU'MMONS. n. s. [from the verb.) A call 1. The luminary that makes the day. of authority; admonition to appear; Doth beauty keep which never sun can burn, citation. Nor storms do turn? Sidney, What are you? Bid her steal into the pleached bow'r, Your name, your quality, and why you answer Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun, This present summons? Skakspeare. Sbakspearl. He sent to summon the seditions, and to offer Though there be but one sun existing in the pardon; but neither sum:nons nor pardon was world, yet the idea of it being abstracted, so that any thing regarded. Hayward. more substances might each agree in it, it is as The sons of light much a sort as if there were as many sens as Hasted, resorting to the summons high, there are stars. And took their seats. Milton, By night, by day, from pole to pole they run; This summons, as he resolved unfit either to Or from the setting seek the rising sun. Harie. dispute or disobey, so could he not, without 2. A sunny place; a place eminently much violence to his inclinations, submit unto. warmed by the sun. Fell. This place has choice of sun and shade. Milt. Strike your sails at simmons, or prepare 3. Any thing eminently splendid. To prove the last extremities of war. Dryden. I will never consent to put out the sun of soveSUMPTER. 1. s. [sommier, Fr. somara, reignty to posterity, and all succeeding kings, Italian. A horse that carries the clothes or furniture. 4. Under the Sun. In this world. A proReturn with her! verbial expression. Persiade m : rather to be a slave and sumpter There is no new thing under the sea. Ecdes. To this detestad groom. Sbakspeare . To SUN. v. a. [froin the noun.) To insoWith full force his deadly bow he bent, And feather’d fates among the mules and simp late; to expose to the sun ; to warm in ters sente Drjuan the sun. Lecke. King Cbärles. SUN The cry to shady delve him brought at last, She that should all parts to re-union bowo, Where Mammon earst did sun his treasury. She that had all magnetick force alone, Sporer. To draw and fasten sundred parts in one. Dorrit. What aim'st thou at? delicious fare; A sundred clock is piecemeal laid, And then to sum thyseii in open air. Dryden. Not to be lost, but by the maker's hand SU'NEE AM. n. So (sun and beam.] Ray of Repolish'd, without error then to stand. Donne, When both the chiefs are sunder'd from the the sun. The Roman eagle, wing'd fight, Then to the lawful king restore his right. Dryd. From the spurgy souch to this part of the west, Vanish'd in the sunbeams. Stakspeare. Th' enormous weight was cast, Which Crantor's body sunder'd at the waist. Gliding through the ev'n On a runbeam. Milton, Dryden. Bears, tigers, wolves, the lion's angry brood, There was a God, a being distinct from this Whom heav'n endu'd with principles of blood, visible world; and this was a truch wrote with a He wisely sundred from the rest, to yell sunbeam, legible to all mankind, and received by In forests. Dryden. universal consent. Soutb. Bring me lightning, give me thunder; SU'NBEAT. part. adj. [sun and beat.] - Jove may kill, but ne'er shall sunder. Shone on fiercely by the sun. Granville. Its length runs level with th’ Atlantic main, SU'NDER. n. s. (runder, Saxon.] Two; And wearies fruitful Nilus to convey two parts. His sunbeat waters by so long a way. Dryden. He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the speare SU'NBRIGHT. adj. (sun and bright.] Re- in sunder. Psalms sembling the sun in brightness. SU'NDEW. n. s. [ros solis, Lat.) An herb. Gathering up himself out of the mire, Ainsworth. With his uneven wings did fiercely fall Upon his sunbright shield. Spenser. SU'NDIAL. N. S. [sun and dial.] A marked Now would I have thee to my tutor, plate on which the shadow points the How and which way I may bestow myself, hour. To be regarded in her sunbrigbe eye. Sbaksp. All your graces no more you shall have, High in the midst, exalted as a God, Than a sundial in a grave. Donne. Th’ apostate in his sunbright chariot sat, The body, though it really moves, yet not Idol of majesty divine! inclos'd changing perceivable distance, seems to stand With fianuing cherubims and golden shields. still; as is evident in the shadows of sundials. Milton. Locke. SUNBU'RNING. n. s. [sun and burning.] SU'NDRY. adj. [runder, Saxon.] Several; The effect of the sun upon the face. more than one. If thou canst love a fellow of this temper, That law, which, as it is laid up in the bosom Kate, whose face is not worth sunburning, let of God, we call eternal, receiveth, according thine eve be thy cook. Sbakspeare. unto the different kind of things which are subThe heat of the sun may darken the colour ject unto it, different and sundry kinds of names. of the skin, which we call sunburning, Boyle. Hookar. SI'NBURNT. part. adj. [sun and burnt.) Not of one nation was it peopled, but of sundry Į. Tanned; discoloured by the sun. people of different manners. Spenser. Where such radiant lights have shone, But, dallying in this place so long, why do'st No wonder if her cheeks be grown thou dwell, Sunburnt with lustre of her own. Cleaveland, bo many sundry things here having yet to tell ? Sunburnt and swarthy though she be, Drayton. She 'll fire for winter nights provide. Pryden. He caused him to be arrested upon complaint One of them, older and more sunburnt than of sundry grievous oppressions. Davies. the rest, told him he had a widow in his line of How can she several bodies know, life. Addison. If in herself a body's form she bear? 2. Scorched by the sun. How can a mirrour sundry faces show, How many nations of the sunburnt soil If from all shapes and forms it be not clear? Davies, Does Niger bless? how many drink the Nile? Blackmore. I have composed sundry collects, as the AdSU'NCLAD. part. adj. [sun and clad.] ventual, Quadragesimal, Paschal or Pentecostal. Sanderson. Clothed in radiance; bright. Sundry foes the rural realm surround. Dryd. SE'NDAY. . s.[sun and day.] The day SU'NFLOWER. n. s. [corona solis, Latin.] anciently dedicated to the sun; the first A plant. Miller. day of the weck; the christian sabbath. If thou wilt needs thrust thy neck into a yoke, SU'NFLOWER, Little. n. s. [beliani hemum, wear the print of it, and sigh away Sundays. Latin.) A plant. Miller. Shakspeare. Sung. The pret. and part. pass. of sing. An' she were not kin to me, she would be as fair on Friday as Helen is on Sunday. Sbaksp. A larger rock then heaving from the plain, He whirl'd it round, it sung across the main. At prime they enter'd on the Sunday morn; Pope. Rich tap’stry spread the streets, Dryden. From joining stones the city sprung, Our ardent Tabours for the toys we seek, While to his harp divine Amphion sung. Pope. Join night to day, and Surday to the week. Young: SUNK. The pret. and part. pass. of sink. To SU'NDER. v. a. (r norian, Saxon.] We have large caves: the deepest are sunk six hundred fathom, and some digged and mada To part; to separate'; to divide. under great hills. Bacon. Véxation alnost stops my breath, Thus we act, and thus we are, That sundred friends greet in the hour of death. Or toss'd by hope, or sunk by ce. Prior. Sbakspeare. Sunk in T'halestris' arms the nymph he found. It is sundred from the main land by a sandy Pore. plain. Carew. His spirit quite sunk with those reflections that sun. solitude and disappointments bring, he is utterly The man that sits within a monarch's heart, undistinguished and forgotten. Swift. And ripens in the sunshine of his favour, SU'NLESS. adj. [from sun.] Wanting sun; Would'he abuse the count'nance of the king, wanting warmth. Alack, what mischiefs might be set abroach, He thrice happy on the sunless side, In shadow of such greatness! Shakspeare Beneath the whole collected shade reclines. He had been many years in that sunsbine, Thomson. when a new comet appeared in court. Clarendon. SU'NLIKE. adj. [sun and like.] Resembling Sight no obstacle found here, nor shade, But sunshine, as when his beams at noon the sun. Culminate from th' equator. Milton. The quantity of light in this bright luminary, I that in his absence and in the sunlike fixe stars, must be continually Blaz'd like a star of the first magnitude, decreasing. Cheyne. Now in his brighter sunshine am not seen. SU'NNY. adj. [from sun.] Denbam. 1. Resembling the sun ; bright. Nor can we this weak shower a tempest call, She saw Duessa sunny bright, But drops of heat that in the sunsbine fall. Adorn'd with gold and jewels shining clear. Dryden. Spenser. The more favourable you are to me, the more The eldest, that Fidelia hight, distinctly I see my faults : spots and blemishes Like sunny beams threw from her crystal face. are never so plainly discovered as in the bright Spenser. Pope. SU'NSHINE. Tadj. (from sunshine. It was A sunny look of his would soon repair. Shaksp. SU'NSHINY.) anciently accented on the The chymist feeds second syllable.) Perpetual flames, whose unresisted force O'er sand and ashes, and the stubborn flint 1. Bright with the sun. Prevailing, turns into a fusile sea, About ten in the morning, in sunsbiny Wea. That in his furnace bubbles sunny red. Philips. ther, we took several sorts of paper stained. Boyle. 2. Exposed to the cun; bright with the The cases prevent the bees getting abroad upon every sunsbine day. Mortimer, About me round I saw 2. Bright like the sun. Him walking on a sunny hill he found. Milt. Became stark blind, and ali bis senses daz'd, That down he tumbled, Speri?" Nor halcyons bask on the short sunny shore. To SUP. v. a. ( super, Norman French; Dryden. But what avail her unexhausted storcs, rupan, Saxon; soepen, Dutch.) To Her blooming mountains, and her sunny shores, drink by mouthfuls; to drink by little With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, at a time ; to sip. The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, Then took the angry witch her golden cup, While proud oppression in her vallies reigns, Which still shc bore replete with magick arls, And tyranny usurps her happy plains ? Addison. Death and despair did many thereof sup. 3. Coloured by the sun. Spisser Her There I'll find a purer air locks sunny To feed my life with: there I 'll sup Crester We saw it smelling to every thing set in the room ; and when it had smelt to them all, it 1. Morning ; the appearance of the sun. supped up the milk. Ray. Send out a pursuivant He call'd for drink; you saw him sap To Stanley's regiment; bid him bring his power Potable gold in golden cup. Serif Before sunrising. Shalspeare. TO SUP. V. n. souper, French.] To cat They intend to prevent the sunrising. Walton. the evening meal. We now believe the Copernican system; yet, You'll sug with me? upon ordinary occasions, we shall still use the -Anger's my meat; 1 p upon myself, popular terms of sunrise and sunset. Bentley And so shall starve with feeding. Sbabshara 2. East. When they had supped, they brought Tobias In those days the giants of Libanus mastered in. Tel. all nations, from the sunrising to the sunset. There's none observes, much less repines, Raleigh. How often this man srps or dines. Caret. SU'NSET. n. s. [sun and set.] I see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury tales 1. Close of the day ; evening. as distinctly as if I had supped with them. Drzd. When the sun sets the air doth drizzle dew; Late returning home, he supp'd at ease. Dryden. But for the sunset of my brother's son It rains downright. Sbakspeare. TO SUP. v. a. To treat with supper. He's almost supp'd; why have you left the chamber? Raleigh. Sbakspears gaze on after sunset. At sunset to their ship they make return, Sup them well, and look unto them all. And snore secure on deck till rosy morn. Sbukspeare Let what you have within be brought abroad, He now, observant of the parting ray, To sup the stranger. Clapmus. Eyes the calm sunset of thy various day. Pope. Sup. n. s. [from the verb.) A small draught; a mouthful of liquor. SU'NSHINE, n. s. [sun and shine. Milton Tom Thamb had got a little supe Drastea. seems to accent it sunshine.] Action of the sun; place where the heat and lustre A pigeon saw the picture of a glass with waiti in 't, and flew eagerly up to't for a sup to quenca of the sun are powerful, L'Estrange her thirste } Dryden. 2. West. by years. sire. The least transgression of your's, if it be only 2. Coming unexpectedly. two bits and one sup more than your stint, is a To SUPER A'NNUAT E. v. a.[sziper andar. great debauch. Swift. Su'per, in composition, notes either more nus, Latin.) To impair or disqualify by than another, or more than enough, or age or length of life. If such depravities be yet alive, deformity on the top. need not despair, nor will the eldest hopes be Su’PERABLE. adj. [superabilis, Latin ; su- ever superannuated. Broron. perable, French.] Conquerable ; such When the sacramental test was put in execuas may be overcome. tion, the justices of peace through Ireland, that SU'PER A BLENESS. n. s. [from superable.] had laid down their commissions, amounted only to a dozen, and those of the lowest fortune, and Quality of being conquerable. some of them superannuated. Swift. To SUPERLA BOU'ND. v. n. (super and To SUPER A'NNUATE. V. n. To last be abound.] To be exuberant; to be stored yond the year. Not in use. The dying of the roots of plants that are an- nual, is by the over-expence of the sap into stalk the clemency of his majestr at this time, except superabound. Bacon. and leaves; which being prevented, they will She superabounds with corn, which is quickly superannuate. Bacon. convertible to coin. Howel. SUPER ANNUA’TION. n. s. [from superanSUPER A BU'NDANCE. n. s. [super and nuate.] The state of being disqualified abundance.] More than enough; great SUPERB. adj. (superbe, French; superbus, The precipitation of the vegetative terrestrial Latin.] Grand ; pompous; lofty ; aumatter at the deluge amongst the sand, was to retrench the luxury and superabundance of the gust; stately; magnificent. productions of the earth. Woodwvard. SUPE'R B-LILY. n. s. [mcthonica, Lat.] A SUPER A BU'NDANT. adj.[super and abund. flower. ant.] Being more than enough. SUPE'R BLY. adv. [from superb.) In a So much superabundant zeal could have no superb manner. other design than to damp that spirit raised SUPER CA’rgo. n. s. [super and cargo.) against Wood. Szvift. An officer in the ship whose business is SUPERABU'NDANTLY. adv. (from super to manage the trade. abundant.] More than sufficiently. I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Nothing but the uncreated infinite can ade- Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. quately till and superabundantly satisfy the de Pope. Cheyne, SUPERCELE'STIAL. adj. [super and, celesTo SUPERA'DD. v. n. [superaddo, Latin.] tial.] Placed above the firmament. To add over and above; to join any I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, thing extrinsick. or whatsoever else, not himself, was increace The peacock laid it extremely to heart that and eternal. Raleigh, he had not the nightingale's voice superadded to Many were for fetching down I know not the beauty of plunes. L'Estronge. what supercelestial waters for the purpose. The schools dispute, whether in morals the Woodward. external action superadds any thing of good or SUPERCHE'R Y. n. s. [An old word of evil to the internal elicit act of the will; but cer- French original.] Deceit; cheating. tainly the enmity of our judgments is wrought SUPERCILIOUS. adj. [from supercilium, up to an high pitch before it rages in an open denial. Soutb. Latin.] Haughty ; dogmatical ; dictaThe strength of any living creature, in those torial ; arbitrary; despotick; external motions, is something distinct from and bearing superadded unto its natural gravity. Wilkins. Those who are one while courteous, within a SUPERADDI'TION, n. so [super and ad- small time after are so supercilious, fierce, and dition.] exceptious, that they are short of the true cha1. The act of adding to something else. racter of friendship. Scuib. The fabrick of the eye, its safe and useful Several supercilious criticks will creat an author situation, and the superaddition of muscles, are a with the greatest contempt, if he fancies the old Romans wore a girdle. Addison, certain pledge of the existence of God. More. 2. That which is added. SUPERCI’LIOUSLY. adv. [from superciliOf these, much more than of the Nicene ous.] Haughtily; dogmatically ; cono; saperaditions, it may be athirmed, that being temptuously. the explications of a father of the church, and He, who was a punctual man in point of honot of a whole universal council, they were not pour, received this address superciliously enough, secessary to be explicitly acknowledged. sent it to the king without performing the least Hammond, ceremony. Clarendon. An animal, in the course of hard labour, seems SUPERCI’LIOUSNESS. n. s. [from superto be nothing but vessels : let the same animal continue long in rest, it will perhaps double its cilious.] Haughtiness; contemptuousweight and bulk : this superaddition is nothing but fat. Arbuthnot. SUPERCONCEPTION. ». so (super and SUPERADVE'NIENT. adj.[superadveniens, conception.] A conception admitied after Latin.) another conception. 1. Coming to the increase or assistance of Those superconceptions, where onc child was something. like the father, the other like the adulterer, seem The coul of man may have matter of triumph, idle. Brown. when he has done bravely by a superadvenient SUPERCO'NSEQUENCE. n. s. [super and assistance of his God, More. consequence.] Remote consequence. over ness. |