Now chiefly poet. [Cf. WFris. simmertiid, NFris. sumartidj, MLG. sommertyd, LG. sommertît, OHG. sumarzît (MHG. sumerzît, G. sommerzeit).] = SUMMER-TIME.
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, 133. Ask the Summer-tide to prove The abundance of my love.
