Summed

ppl. a. 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.  R. 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^u 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.  McLaren, 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.