Person (medicine) and summer(1) (iou)

Person (medicine)

person

1. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. "His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler." (Bacon) "No man can long put on a person and act a part." (Jer. Taylor) "To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright." (Milton) "How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend!" (South)

2. The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. "A fair persone, and strong, and young of age." (Chaucer) "If it assume my noble father's person." (Shak) "Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined." (Milton)

3, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child. "Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection." (Locke)

4. A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.

5. A parson; the parish priest.

6. Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. "Three persons and one God."

7. One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.

A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is said to be in the first person; when representing what is spoken to, in the second person; when representing what is spoken of, in the third person.

8. <biology> A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. "True corms, composed of united personae . . . Usually arise by gemmation, . . . Yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons." (Encyc. Brit) Artificial, or Fictitious, person, a man, woman, or child, in distinction from a corporation. In person, by one's self; with bodily presence; not by representative. "The king himself in person is set forth." . In the person of, in the place of; acting for.

Origin: OE. Persone, persoun, person, parson, OF. Persone, F. Personne, L. Persona a mask (used by actors), a personage, part, a person, fr. Personare to sound through; per + sonare to sound. See Per-, and cf. Parson.

Source: Websters Dictionary

summer(1) (iou)

summer noun1.
[Old English sumor corresp. to Old Frisian sumur, Old Saxon, Old High German sumar (Dutch zomer, German Sommer), Old Norse sumar, from Germanic; rel. to Sanskrit sama year, Avestan ham- summer.]
The second and warmest season of the year, between spring and autumn: in the northern hemisphere freq. regarded as comprising June, July, and August, or (Astronomy) reckoned from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox; in the southern hemisphere corresponding to the northern winter (December to February). OE.
summer and winter, winter and summer all the year round. RUSSIAN spring-summer encephalitis. snow-in-summer: see SNOW noun1.
E. Waugh The dry sounds of summer, the frog-voices, the..cicadas. V. S. Pritchett The summers at Melikhovo were delectable.
b. transf. Summer weather; a season resembling summer; summery or warm weather. ME.
Indian summer: see INDIAN adjective. St Luke's summer, St Martin's summer: see SAINT noun & adjective.
In pl. A specified number of years, esp. of a person's age. Chiefly poet. LME.
J. Betjeman I am thirty summers older.
The mature stage of life; the height of achievement, powers, etc. M16.
J. Burroughs The red aborigine..had his summer of fulness and contentment.
Attrib. & comb.: in the sense 'characteristic of, suitable for, or used or occurring in summer', (of plants and animals) 'active or flourishing in summer', (of fruits) 'ripening in summer', 'ripening early', (of crops) 'ripening in the summer of the year of their planting', as summer apple, summer clothes, summer cottage, summer fly, summer fruit, summer Garden, summer holiday, summer resort, summer tourist, summer wheat, etc. Special combs., as summer bird (a) a bird that appears in summer, a summer migrant; (b) (with allus. to the cuckoo) a cuckold; summer boarder US a person who lives at a boarding-house in the country in summer; summer camp (orig. & chiefly US) a camp providing recreational and sporting facilities during the summer holiday period, usu. for children; summer cholera = CHOLERA infantum; summer cloud: such as is seen on a summer's day, esp. a fleeting cloud; summer complaint = CHOLERA infantum; summer country NZ high farmland only suitable for use in summer; summer cypress a pyramidal shrub of the goosefoot family, Bassia scoparia, grown for its ornamental feathery foliage (cf. burning bush (a) s.v. BURNING ppl adjective); summer-day = summer's day below; summer diarrhoea = CHOLERA infantum; summer-dream a pleasant or happy dream; summer duck N. Amer. the wood duck, Aix sponsa; summer egg a thin-shelled egg that develops rapidly, produced (usu. parthenogenetically) in spring and summer by various freshwater invertebrates (usu. in pl.); summer-fallow verb, noun, & adjective (a) verb trans. & intrans. lay (land) fallow during the summer; (b) noun a lying or laying fallow during the summer; land that lies fallow in summer; (c) adjective lying fallow in summer; summer-field: with a summer crop; summer grape, a N. American wild grape, Vitis aestivalis; summer-heat the heat of summer; spec. an arbitrary summer temperature marked on a thermometer; summer-herring (a) a herring taken in summer; (b) US any of several fishes related to the herring, esp. the blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis; summer-house (a) (now rare) a summer residence in the country; (b) a light usu. simple building in a Garden or park, used for sitting in during fine weather; summer HYACINTH; summer kitchen N. Amer. an extra kitchen adjoining or separate from a house, used for Cooking in hot weather; summer-land (a) dial. a summer-fallow; (b) a land where it is always summer; Spiritualism the intermediate state of the departed; summer lightning sheet lightning without audible thunder, the result of a distant storm; summer lodge Canad. = TUPIK; summer-long adverb & adjective, (lasting) throughout the summer; summer master Canadian History a person in charge of a trading post for the summer only; summer mastitis a severe inflammation of the udder in dry cows and pre-calving heifers, usu. associated with the bacterium Corynebacterium pyogenes; summer-prune verb trans. & intrans. [back-form.] prune during the growing season; summer pruning the selective cutting back of branches of trees or shrubs during the growing season; summer pudding: composed of bread or sponge soaked in pureed fruit (freq. raspberries and redcurrants); summer red-bird = summer tanager below; summer resident: see RESIDENT noun 1b; summer sausage N. Amer. a dried or smoked sausage which can be made in winter and kept until summer; summer savory: see SAVORY noun1; summer school a school or course of Education held in the summer, esp. at a university during the long vacation; summer's cloud = summer cloud above; summer's day (a) a day in summer; (b) in a summer's day, in some summer's day, some day or Other, one of these days; summer season (a) the season of summer; (b) a period in summer for which people are employed in connection with seasonal or holiday Entertainment, trade, etc.; summer snipe the common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos; summer snowflake: see SNOWFLAKE 3; summer solstice the occasion of the longest day in the year, when the sun reaches its greatest altitude north of the equator, on approx. 21 June (or in the southern hemisphere, south of the equator, on approx. 21 December); summer squash: see SQUASH noun2; summer stock N. Amer. theatrical productions by a repertory company organized for the summer season, esp. at holiday resorts; summer tanager a tanager, Piranga rubra, the adult male of which is rosy red, and which is a common summer visitor in parts of the US; summer teal the garganey; summer-tide (now chiefly poet.) = SUMMERTIME noun 1; summer-tilth dial. (the cultivation of) fallow land; summer-weight adjective (of clothes) light, suitable for wear in summer; summer wood = late wood s.v. LATE adjective; summer yellowbird: see YELLOW adjective.
summeriness noun (rare) summery character or quality M19.
summerish adjective somewhat summer-like E18.
summerize verb (a) verb intrans. (rare) spend the summer; (b) verb trans. (US colloq.) prepare (something) for summer: L18.
summerless adjective having no summer; not summery: L19.
summer-like adjective resembling (that of) summer M16.
summers adverb (N. Amer.) during the summer; each summer: E20.
summerward(s) adverb towards summer L19.
summery adjective resembling or pertaining to summer; characteristic of or appropriate to summer; summer-like: L15.

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