An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

SUMDELL, SUMDELE, adv.
1. Somewhat, in some degree.
Barbour.
2. Respecting quantity or number.
Barbour.

A. S. sum daele, aliqua parte, partim.

SUMER, s. A sumpter-horse.
Barbour.

O. Fland. Fr. sommier, id.

SUMMER-BLINK, s.
1. A transient gleam of sunshine, S.
2. Used metaph. in relation to religious feelings.
V. [Blenk].
Rutherford.

SUMMER-COUTS, SIMMER-COUTS, s. pl. The exhalations, seen to ascend from the ground in a warm day, S. B.
Ross.

Perhaps q. summer-colts, in allusion to the frisking of young horses.

SUMMER-SOB, s. A summer storm, Ang.
Ross.

Teut. soeff-en, flare; Gael. siob-am, id.; siob-an, drift, blast.

SUMMYN, adj. Some.
Douglas.
All and summyn, all and every one.