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The period around the summer solstice; about 21st June in the northern hemisphere.

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The first day of summer

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The middle of summer.

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Midsummer Day, the English quarter day.

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A pagan holiday or Wiccan Sabbat

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Happening in the middle of summer.

It was midsummer, and the day was very hot.

Starting at the extreme north, we have a simple period with a well-marked maximum at midwinter, and no auroras during several months at midsummer.

If sunlight and twilight were the sole cause of the apparent annual variation, the frequency would have a simple period, with a maximum at midwinter and a minimum at midsummer.

In the spring of 1313 Edward Bruce invested Stirling castle, the key of Scotland; on midsummer day he accepted a pact for the surrender of the place if not relieved within a year.

The best time of the year for felling timber is in midsummer or midwinter, when the sap of the tree is at rest; it is not desirable to cut timber in the spring or autumn.

It was one of the old quarter-days, being equivalent to midsummer, the others being Martinmas, equivalent to Michaelmas, Candlemas (Christmas) and Whitsuntide (Easter).

These commoners might be the several owners, the inhabitants of a parish, freemen of a borough, tenants of a manor, &c. The opening of the fields by throwing down the fences took place on Lammas Day (12th of August) for corn-lands and on Old Midsummer Day (6th of July) for grass.

The ovary is not visible till nearly midsummer, and is not fully developed before lutumn.

The town, however, is in growing repute as a midsummer resort.

Such are Christmas Day, and, not unnaturally in this northern land, Midsummer (June 23 and 24).

That the sun on midsummer day rises nearly, but not quite, in line with the "avenue" and over the Friar's Heel, has long been advanced as the chief argument in support of the theory that Stonehenge was a temple for sun-worship. On the supposition that this stone was raised to mark exactly the line of sunrise on midsummer's day when the structure was erected, it would naturally follow, owing to well-known astronomical causes, that in the course of time the direction of this line would slowly undergo a change, and that, at any subsequent date since, the amount of deviation would be commensurate with the lapse of time, thus supplying chronological data to astronomers for determining the age of the building.

The solution of this problem has recently been attempted by Sir Norman Lockyer (Stonehenge and other British Stone Monuments), who calculates that on midsummer day, 1680 B.C., the sun would rise exactly over the Friar's Heel, and in a direct line with the axis of the temple and "avenue."

This is done about midsummer, when by the aid of torches and long poles many thousands of the young birds are slaughtered, while their parents in alarm and rage hover over the destroyers' heads, uttering harsh and deafening cries.

The siege of Delhi, which was the turning-point of the Mutiny, had lasted for more than three months, during which thirty minor actions had been fought in the almost intolerable heat of the Indian midsummer.

The third book was presented to the Society on the 6th of April 1687, and the whole work published about midsummer in that year.

At last, about midsummer 1713, was published the long and impatiently expected second edition of the Principia, and, on the 27th of July, Newton waited on the queen to present her with a copy of the new edition.

The climate is thoroughly Arctic. In the northern parts unbroken daylight in summer and darkness in winter last from two to three months each; and through the greater part of the country the sun does not rise at mid-winter or set at midsummer.

In May or April he lets his reindeer loose, to wander as they please; but immediately after midsummer, when the mosquitoes become troublesome, he goes to collect them.

In the spring they go down to the Norwegian coast and take part in the sea fisheries, returning to the lake about midsummer.

The year was broken by the spring feasts and moots, the great Althing meeting at midsummer, the marriage and arval gatherings after the summer, and the long yule feasts at midwinter.

The climate is inclement in winter and oppressively hot in midsummer.

Midsummer House on Midsummer Common is still going strong thanks to its highly enviable riverside location.

Today, for fear of its desecration, Stonehenge is usually shut off to public access on midsummer's eve.

Again it is late flowering, from midsummer to mid autumn.

The image is a leafy glade, a take on Shakespeare's Midsummer's Nights Dream.

Anyway, as it was permanently midsummer at Blandings those accounts would have been only hearsay.

This piece of midsummer madness is an all new production specially created for the LIFT Club.

We are having a re-union barbecue on the school fields to celebrate midsummer in a style.

The Cove at Stanton marks the minor southern midsummer setting as viewed from the northeast circle.

This is the place to spend midsummer, particularly Midsummer's Night when the whole region erupts in a frenzy of celebration.

An agreement is made that it will surrender if not relieved by midsummer 's day.

As the Swedish midsummer approaches there is no escaping from the darkness of society.

The night, tho we were so little past midsummer, was as dark as January.

The avenue of approach is aligned to the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset and the Station Stones mark the midwinter sunrise and midsummer sunset.

Its flower panicles start to appear in midsummer on stems up to 30 inches tall.

From one of the stones of the latter, the midsummer risings may have been marked.

As to the lesser sabbats, there is little evidence for the celebration of any of these by any pagan Celts except possibly midsummer.

To say nothing of the times we brought unseasonal sleet to midsummer Norway and the monsoon to Cheshire.

Each monument was a circular structure, aligned with the rising of the sun at the midsummer solstice.

To the south east is an entrance with double stones which faces down the valley toward the midsummer sunrise.

Flower Scar Hill has been implicated in a possible midsummer sunset sight-line, and is under threat from open cast coal mining.

Midsummer's Night Dream 5cl silver tequila 1.5cl pineapple juice 1.5cl fresh lime juice dash grenadine Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice.

Sue took Alan to see Woking Youth Theater in ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ', which both found tremendous.

That the 8-hour and 6-hour waves, though small near midsummer, represent more than mere accidental irregularities, seems a safe inference from the regularity apparent in the annual variation of their phase angles.

Zolss (41, 42) Has Published Dirunal Variation Data For Kremsmunster For More Than One Year, And Independently For Midsummer (May To August) And Midwinter (December To February).

At Karasjok, on the contrary, Simpson found A much larger at midwinternotwithstanding the presence of snow-than at midsummer.

The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies was a volume of serious verse, in which Hood showed himself a by no means despicable follower of Keats.

The broad deeply-sinuated leaves with blunt rounded lobes are of a peculiar yellowish colour when the buds unfold in May, but assume a more decided green towards midsummer, and eventually become rather dark in tint; they do not change to their brown autumnal hue until late in October, and on brushwood and saplings the withered foliage is often retained until the spring.

Its intensity seems due, however, in some degree at least, to the weathering of the brown fringes of the feathers which hide the more brilliant hue, and in the Atlantic islands examples are said to retain their gay tints all the year round, while throughout Europe there is scarcely a trace of them visible in autumn and winter; but, beginning to appear in spring, they reach their greatest brilliancy towards midsummer; they are never assumed by examples in confinement.

I had dug out the spring and made a well of clear gray water, where I could dip up a pailful without roiling it, and thither I went for this purpose almost every day in midsummer, when the pond was warmest.