summerlayt

t. [ME. somer-layen; Your fader had fro John Kendale the croppe of the seide x acres londe, sowen barly and pes on, wherof v acres were weel somer layde to the seid barly. Paston Letters, III. 402. summer-like (sum'er-lik), a. Resembling summer; summerly. Grapes might at once have turned purple under its sum merlike exposure. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, viii. summer lin e (sum'èr-li-nes), n. The state of being summerly, or of having a mild or summerlike temperature. Fuller , Worthies, Somerset summer. [Rare.] Maids, well summered and warm kept, are like flies at Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their eyes. Shak., Hen. V., v. 2. 335. 2. To feed during the summer, as cattle. [Scotch.]