Word Meanings - WEATHERWISER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.

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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
• 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.
• 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,
• 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.
• WEATHER-BITTEN
  Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.
• WEATHER-BOARD
  To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc. Gwilt.
• WEATHERLINESS
  The quality of being weatherly.
• WEATHERBOARD
  That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side. A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water. A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction
• WEATHERBIT
  To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass. Totten.
• WEATHERWISE
  Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather. Hakluyt.
• WEATHER-BOUND
  Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
• WEATHER-DRIVEN
  Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.
• WEATHER
  weder, D. weder, weêr, G. wetter, OHG. wetar, Icel. veedhr, Dan. veir, Sw. väder wind, air, weather, and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lith. vetra storm, Russ. vieter', vietr', 1. The state of the air or atmosphere with
• WEATHERED
  Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.
• WEATHERLY
  Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship. Cooper.
• WEATHERCOCK
  1. A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction. "As a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind." Chaucer. Noisy weathercocks
• OVERWEATHER
  To expose too long to the influence of the weather. Shak.
• AWEATHER
  On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather ! Totten.
• FAIR-WEATHER
  1. Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage. Pope. 2. Appearing only when times or circumstances are prosperous; as, a fair-weather friend. Fair-weather sailor,