Definition of Weathir
Weath"er (?), 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.]
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.
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.
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.
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.
Weath"er (?), 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.]
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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 incandescent 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
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- of, or relating to weather
- (nautical) windward
- the short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud coverage and fall of precipitation, wind, etc.
- unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and its effects
- To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
- (nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
- (nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
Derived terms
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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