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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Weather \Weath"er\, n. [OE. weder, AS weder; akin to OS wedar, OFries weder, D. weder, we[^e]r, G. wetter, OHG. wetar Icel. ve[eth]r, Dan. veir, Sw v["a]der wind, air, weather, and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lith. vetra storm, Russ. vieter', vietr', wind, and E. wind. Cf {Wither}.] 1. The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather. --Shak. Fair weather cometh out of the north. --Job xxxvii 22. 2. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air. --Bacon. 3. Storm; tempest. What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud My thoughts presage! --Dryden. 4. A light rain; a shower. [Obs.] --Wyclif. {Stress of weather}, violent winds; force of tempests. {To make fair weather}, to flatter; to give flattering representations. [R.] {To make good}, or {bad}, {weather} (Naut.), to endure a gale well or ill; -- said of a vessel. --Shak. {Under the weather}, ill; also financially embarrassed. [Colloq. U. S.] --Bartlett. {Weather box}. Same as {Weather house}, below. --Thackeray. {Weather breeder}, a fine day which is supposed to presage foul weather. {Weather bureau}, a popular name for the signal service. See {Signal service}, under {Signal}, a. [U. S.] {Weather cloth} (Naut.), a long piece of canvas of tarpaulin used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather when stowed in the nettings. {Weather door}. (Mining) See {Trapdoor}, 2. {Weather gall}. Same as {Water gall}, 2. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. {Weather house}, a mechanical contrivance in the form of a house, which indicates changes in atmospheric conditions by the appearance or retirement of toy images. Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought Devised the weather house, that useful toy! --Cowper. {Weather molding}, or {Weather moulding} (Arch.), a canopy or cornice over a door or a window, to throw off the rain. {Weather of a windmill sail}, the obliquity of the sail, or the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution. {Weather report}, a daily report of meteorological observations, and of probable changes in the weather; esp., one published by government authority. {Weather spy}, a stargazer; one who foretells the weather. [R.] --Donne. {Weather strip} (Arch.), a strip of wood, rubber, or other material, applied to an outer door or window so as to cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Weather \Weath"er\, v. i. To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes to wear away or alter, under atmospheric influences; to suffer waste by weather. The organisms . . . seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are imbedded has weathered from around them --H. Miller. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Weather \Weath"er\, a. (Naut.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc {Weather gauge}. a (Naut.) The position of a ship to the windward of another. b Fig.: A position of advantage or superiority; advantage in position. To veer, and tack, and steer a cause Against the weather gauge of laws. --Hudibras. {Weather helm} (Naut.), a tendency on the part of a sailing vessel to come up into the wind, rendering it necessary to put the helm up that is toward the weather side {Weather shore} (Naut.), the shore to the windward of a ship. --Totten. {Weather tide} (Naut.), the tide which sets against the lee side of a ship, impelling her to the windward. --Mar. Dict. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Weather \Weath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Weathered}; p. pr & vb n. {Weathering}.] 1. To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air. [An eagle] soaring through his wide empire of the air To weather his broad sails. --Spenser. This gear lacks weathering. --Latimer. 2. Hence to sustain the trying effect of to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as to weather the storm. For I can weather the roughest gale. --Longfellow. You will weather the difficulties yet --F. W. Robertson 3. (Naut.) To sail or pass to the windward of as to weather a cape; to weather another ship. 4. (Falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air. --Encyc. Brit. {To weather a point}. a (Naut.) To pass a point of land, leaving it on the lee side b Hence to gain or accomplish anything against opposition. {To weather out}, to encounter successfully, though with difficulty; as to weather out a storm. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: weather adj : towards the side exposed to wind [syn: {upwind}, {weather(a)}] n : the meteorological conditions: temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "they were hoping for good weather"; "every day we have weather conditions and yesterday was no exception" [syn: {weather condition}, {atmospheric condition}] v 1: face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements" [syn: {endure}, {brave}, {brave out}] 2: cause to slope 3: sail to the windward of 4: change under the action or influence of the weather; "A weathered old hut" From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle. Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be -- Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth, With a record of unreason seldom paralleled on earth. While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incadescent youth, From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth. He cast his eyes about him and above him then he wrote On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote -- For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow: "Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow." Halcyon Jones
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