Weather
Weather , noun
[Old English weder, Anglo-Saxon weder; akin to Old Saxon wedar, OFries. weder, Dutch weder, weêr, German wetter, Old High German wetar, Icelandic veer, Danish veir, Swedish vader wind, air, weather, and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lithuanian vetra storm, Russ. vieter', vietr', wind, and English wind. Compare 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.
Fair weather cometh out of the north.
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!
4.
A light rain; a shower. [Obsolete] — Wyclif
Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought
Devised the weather house, that useful toy!
Weather , transitive verb
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.
This gear lacks weathering.
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.
You will weather the difficulties yet.
3.
(Nautical) 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
Collocations (2)
To weather a point (Nautical) , (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.
Weather , intransitive verb
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.
Weather , adjective
(Nautical) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc.
To veer, and tack, and steer a cause
Against the weather gauge of laws.