The time at which the sun reaches the summer tropic, i.e., in the northern hemisphere, the tropic of Cancer, in the southern hemisphere, the tropic of Capricorn; † occas. applied to the tropic itself.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 37. Distant fiue degreis fra oure symmyr solstice, callit the borial tropic of cancer.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 245. About the Summer solstice it sheweth a red floure.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 23. Five days after our Summer Solstice we had soundings 14 Fathom.
1837. Brewster, Magnet., 217. The declination has never diminished between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice.
1868. Lockyer, Guillemin’s Heavens (ed. 3), 119. From the 21st of June to the 22d of September, the Earth passes from the Summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.
