Definition of weather
- n. - 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.
- n. - Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation
of the state of the air.
- n. - Storm; tempest.
- n. - A light rain; a shower.
- v. t. - To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to
air.
- v. t. - Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up
against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather
the storm.
- v. t. - To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a
cape; to weather another ship.
- v. t. - To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
- 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.
- a. - Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as,
weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather
quarter, weather shrouds, etc.