Midsummer: alternatives and connections

Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases.

To spend the summer.

The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation.

Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [Obs.] "Allhallown summer." Shak. (i. e., late summer; "Indian Summer").

The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performa…

The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; t…

A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber w…

The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the north…

relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even numbe…

Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel;…

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…

The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of…

A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purpose…

A scalloped or "pattypan" variety of summer squash.

A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early par…

A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of…