weather

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 ]

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 ]