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A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate. Turn we to sutvey, Where rougher climes a nobler race display. Goldsmith.

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  • WEATHERING
    The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
  • WEATHERWISER
    Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.
  • WEATHER STATION
    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
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • WEATHERBOARDING
    The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
  • TRACTORATION
    See PERKINISM
  • PORTIONIST
    One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
  • COUNTRY SEAT
    A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
  • TRACTITE
    A Tractarian.
  • WEATHER-BIT
    A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
  • WEATHER MAP
    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,
  • TRACTARIANISM
    The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
  • ATMOSPHERE
    The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. Any gaseous envelope or medium. An atmosphere of cold oxygen. Miller. 2. A supposed
  • WEATHER SIGNAL
    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.
  • WEATHERPROOF
    Proof against rough weather.
  • CLIMATE
    One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day. 2. The condition of a place in relation
  • DISTRICT
    Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
  • COUNTRY CLUB
    A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
  • TRACTION
    1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. 2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug. 3. Attraction;
  • TEMPERATURE
    Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or
  • DISPROPORTIONALLY
    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • IMPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportionate.
  • DISPROPORTIONABLE
    Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • DISPROPORTIONALITY
    The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
  • PROPORTIONATE
    Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
  • SUBCONTRACTOR
    One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
  • UNSPHERE
    To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb. Shak.
  • RETRACTOR
    One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
  • AEROSPHERE
    The atmosphere.
  • REAPPORTIONMENT
    A second or a new apportionment.
  • MISPROPORTION
    To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
  • DETRACTIVE
    1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
  • COSMOSPHERE
    An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.

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