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a. 1. Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Appearing only when times or circumstances are prosperous; as, a fair-weather friend. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fair-weather sailor, a make-believe or inexperienced sailor; -- the nautical equivalent of carpet knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To expose too long to the influence of the weather. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. weder, AS. weder; akin to OS. wedar, OFries. weder, D. weder, weêr, G. wetter, OHG. wetar, Icel. veðr, Dan. veir, Sw. väder 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fair weather cometh out of the north. Job xxxvii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Storm; tempest. [ 1913 Webster ]

What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud
My thoughts presage! Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A light rain; a shower. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stress of weather, violent winds; force of tempests. --
To make fair weather, to flatter; to give flattering representations. [ R. ] --
To make good weather, or
To make 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. [ 1913 Webster ] Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought
Devised the weather house, that useful toy! Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ] --
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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Weathered p. pr. & vb. n. Weathering. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ An eagle ] soaring through his wide empire of the air
To weather his broad sails. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

This gear lacks weathering. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

For I can weather the roughest gale. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

You will weather the difficulties yet. F. W. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The organisms . . . seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are imbedded has weathered from around them. H. Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ] To veer, and tack, and steer a cause
Against the weather gauge of laws. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ] --
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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Naut.) (a) That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side. (b) A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) (Arch.) A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath. (b) A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Arch.) To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) (a) The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. (b) Boards adapted or intended for such use. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction. “As a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Arch.) Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) Having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To defend from the weather; to shelter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ We ] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Poor man's weatherglass. (Bot.) See under Poor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) The quality of being weatherly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship. Cooper. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region. Such maps usually show the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather, and the direction and velocity of the wind. Isobars and isotherms outline the general distribution of temperature and pressure, while shaded areas indicate the sections over which rain has just fallen. Other lines inclose areas where the temperature has fallen or risen markedly. In tabular form are shown changes of pressure and of temperature, maximum and minimum temperatures, and total rain for each weather station since the last issue, usually 12 hours. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Naut.) Being farthest to the windward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Proof against rough weather. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weather Bureau includes temperature, cold or hot wave, rain or snow, wind direction, storm, and hurricane signals. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Meteor.) A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering instruments; of the second order when only important observations are taken; of the third order when simpler work is done, as to record rainfall and maximum and minimum temperatures. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Waywiser. ] Something that foreshows the weather. [ Obs. ] Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]