Word Meanings - SOLSTITIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to a solstice. 2. Happening at a solstice; esp. (with reference to the northern hemisphere), happening at the summer solstice, or midsummer. "Solstitial summer's heat." Milton.

Related words: (words related to SOLSTITIAL)

• MIDSUMMER
  The middle of summer. Shak. Midsummer daisy , the oxeye daisy.
• NORTHERNMOST
  Farthest north.
• NORTHERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
• SOLSTICE
  stand, akin to stare to stand: cf. F. solstice. See Solar, a., Stand, 1. A stopping or standing still of the sun. Sir T. Browne. The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point
• SUMMERSTIR
  To summer-fallow.
• SUMMERHOUSE
  A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer. Shak.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• NORTHERNER
  1. One born or living in the north. 2. A native or inhabitant of the Northern States; -- contradistinguished from Ant: Southerner.
• SUMMERLINESS
  The quality or state of being like summer. Fuller.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• SUMMERTREE
  A summer. See 2d Summer.
• HAPPEN
  Etym: 1. To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov. xii. 21. 2. To take place; to occur. All these things which had happened. Luke xxiv. 14. To happen on, to meet with; to
• SUMMER
  A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: The lintel of a door or window. The commencement of a cross vault. A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• SUMMERTIDE
  Summer time.
• SOLSTITIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a solstice. 2. Happening at a solstice; esp. (with reference to the northern hemisphere), happening at the summer solstice, or midsummer. "Solstitial summer's heat." Milton.
• NORTHERNLY
  Northerly. Hakewill.
• HEMISPHERE
  1. A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center. 2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture. 3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere. He died . . . mourned
• SUMMERY
  Of or pertaining to summer; like summer; as, a summery day.
• REFERENCE
  The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court. 6. Appeal. "Make your full reference." Shak. Reference Bible, a Bible in which brief
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• BEHAPPEN
  To happen to.
• TRANSSUMMER
  See 2
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.