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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Weather

Weath'er, n.

noun

n. [O. Eng. & A-S. weder, O. Sax. weder, O. Fries., D., & L. Ger. weder, weer, Icel. veðr, Sw. väder, Dan. veir, O. H. Ger. wetar, M. H. Ger. weter, N. H. Ger. wetter, Lith. wetra, Slav. vietr, from Skr. vā, to blow.]

  1. The air or atmosphere with respect to its state as regards 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; calm weather; tempestuous weather; fair weather; cloudy weather; hazy weather; and the like.
  2. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air. Bacon.
  3. Storm; tempest. [Obs. or poet.]

What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud My thoughts portend! Dryden. 4. A light rain; a shower. [Obs.] Wycliffe. Stress of weather, violent winds; force of tempests. — To make fair weather, to flatter; to give flattering representations. [Rare.] Shak. — Weather of a windmill-sail, the obliquity of the sail, or the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution.

Wēath'er, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. WEATHERED; p. pr. & vb. n. WEATHERING.]

Sense 1. To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.

Like to an eagle soaring To weather his broad sails. Spencer.

This gear lacks weathering. Latimer.

Sense 2. (Naut.) To sail to the windward of; to pass between the wind and; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship.

Sense 3. Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and resist; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm.

You will weather the difficulties yet. F. W. Robertson.

To weather a point. (a.) (Naut.) To gain a point toward the wind, as a ship. (b.) Hence, to gain or accomplish any thing against opposition.—To weather out, to encounter successfully, though with difficulty; as, to weather out a storm.

Wēath'er, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away or alter under atmospheric influences.

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

Wēath’er, a.

adjective

a. (Naut.) Toward the wind, or windward; — often used in composition; as, weather-bow, weather-braces, weather-gage, weather-lifts, weather-quarter, weather-shrouds, and the like.

To carry a weather helm (Naut.), to tend to come up into the wind, as a ship, so as to require the helm to be put up constantly. Dana.