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Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Inception :: Inception (n.) Beginning; commencement; initiation.

Induction :: Induction (n.) The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

Salutatory :: Salutatory (a.) Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; greeting; -- applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commencements, or similar public exhibitions, in American colleges..

Paragenic :: Paragenic (a.) Originating in the character of the germ, or at the first commencement of an individual; -- said of peculiarities of structure, character, etc..

Salutatorian :: Salutatorian (n.) The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship..

Valedictory :: Valedictory (n.) A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar..

Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information..

Original :: Original (n.) Origin; commencement; source.

Fac :: Fac (n.) A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book..

Commencement :: Commencement (n.) The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.

Deal :: Deal (n.) Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack..

Entrance :: Entrance (n.) The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business..

Birthday :: Birthday (n.) The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.

Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.

From :: From (prep.) Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of

Inchoation :: Inchoation (n.) Act of beginning; commencement; inception.

New-year :: New-year (a.) Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes..

Recommencement :: Recommencement (n.) A commencement made anew.

Valedictorian :: Valedictorian (n.) One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship..

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