Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Somer sesoun, n. Also: sommyr-, simmer- and -sessoun, -sessone, -seaso(u)n, -sessione. [ME and e.m.E. somer sesun (Piers Plowman), sommer season (1530), summer season (1688); Somer n. 1. and Seso(u)n(e n. 1.] The (season of) summer; summertime.For further examples see Seso(u)n(e n. 1 (1). 1456 Hay I 194/34.
As gif a man war burgeis in Paris and in Coloyne … . And in every somer sesoun held in the tane and in the wynter in the tothir 1515 Douglas Corr. 71.
We suld debayt weyll eneuch our adversaris in thiz partis quhyll the sommyr sessione 1530 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 55.
For the furnissing and gaddering of schellis to the aislaris laying the hale somer sessone 1560 Rolland Seven S. 4982.
Twa bathing fattis … The ane was cauld, preparit for simmer sessoun [: ressoun] The vther het for winter a1568 Bann. MS 234a/24.
The reid roseir Freschest of hew in somer sesoun grene 1571 Reg. Privy C. II 92.
[The Earl of Huntly] having continewit all this somer season within the burgh and castell of Edinburgh occupeit in oppressing his Hienes … subjectis 1580 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 160.
The awld superstitioun and insolencie commounly vsit in the tyme of May and in the somer seasoun 1588 King. Cat. Sig. i vii.
Giff he [sc. the sun] … be in ony of the sowth signes in the simmer sessone