adv. [f. SUMMER sb.1: see -WARD(S.] Towards summer.
1850. Zanesville (OH) Courier, 2 May, 2/6. The weather is approaching summerward very slowly—there was considerable of a white frost last night—but the dryness of the atmosphere and the fog in the morning kept the blossoms from being injured.
1889. J. C. Harris, in Century Mag., Sept., 774/2. The world seemed to float summerwards in the glimmering haze that wrapped the hills in the afternoons.
1891. Advance (Chicago), 9 April. The procession of the seasons appears as if in some doubt which way to go, winterward or summerward.
