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weather(1) (iou)



weather noun.
[Old English weder = Old Frisian, Old Saxon wedar, Old High German wetar (Dutch weer, German Wetter), Old Norse veer, from Germanic, prob. from base of WIND noun1.]
The condition of the atmosphere at a given place and time with respect to heat, cold, sunshine, rain, cloud, wind, etc. OE.
bad weather, cold weather, fine weather, good weather, hot weather, rainy weather, etc. fig.: Times High Commissioners may come and go according to the political weather.
O. Wilde The weather..is..awfulreal snow and other horrors. A. S. Byatt They talked about the weather in an English way. Guardian Perfect weather for Mr Bush's garden party.
b. (A spell of) a particular kind of weather. Now rare exc. in in all weathers. OE.
C. Brayfield She obediently played sports in all weathers without complaint.
c. Bad weather; destructive rain, frost, wind, etc.; spec. (now dial. & Nautical) violent wind accompanied by heavy rain or rough sea. OE.
Sir W. Scott Weather and war their rougher trace Have left on that majestic face.
d. Weather suitable for some purpose; spec. fine weather. Long obsolete exc. Scot. LME.
e. Rain, snow, etc., falling from the clouds. LME-E19.
f. Air, sky. LME-E17.
Nautical. The direction in or side towards which the wind is blowing; windward. Freq. attrib. LME.
More fully angle of weather. The angle made by a windmill's sails with the perpendicular to the axis. M18.
Phrases etc.: angle of weather: see sense 3 above. fine-weather: see FINE adjective. fine weather for ducks: see DUCK noun1. have the weather gauge of: see GAUGE noun 2. in the weather exposed to the elements, in the open air, outdoors. keep a weather eye (on), keep one's weather eye (on), keep a weather eye open (for), keep one's weather eye open (for) be watchful and alert (for), keep one's wits about one (for). keep the weather gauge of: see GAUGE noun 2. make good weather of it, make bad weather of it, etc., Nautical (of a ship) behave well, badly, etc., in a storm. make heavy weather of perform (an apparently simple task) clumsily or ineptly, exaggerate the difficulty or burden presented by (a problem etc.). under the weather indisposed, slightly unwell. weather permitting (as an announcement referring to a ship's sailing, a sports fixture, etc.) conditional on the weather being favourable. wind and weather: see WIND noun1.
Comb.: weather balloon a balloon sent up to provide meteorological information; weather-beaten adjective (a) buffeted by wind, rain, etc., exposed to the weather; (b) worn, damaged, or discoloured by such exposure; weather-bit adjective (rare) weather-beaten; weatherbitt noun & verb (Nautical) (a) noun an extra turn of a cable about the bitts in bad weather; (b) verb trans. give such an extra turn to (a cable); weather-blate, weather-bleat Anglo-Irish [formed as HEATHER-bleat after weather] the snipe; weather-bound adjective prevented by bad weather from travelling or proceeding; weather bow Nautical the bow turned towards the wind; weather-box = weather-house below; weather-breeder (chiefly dial.) a day of exceptionally sunny and calm weather, thought of as heralding a storm; weather bureau US an agency established esp. by the government to observe and report on weather conditions; weather centre an office providing weather information and analysis; weather chart a diagram showing the current or future state of the weather over a large area; weathercoat a weatherproof coat, a raincoat; weather-cottage = weather-house below; weather cycle a recurring pattern of weather or of a tendency in the weather; weather deck Nautical a deck exposed to the weather, the uppermost unprotected deck; weather-fend verb trans. (arch.) protect from the weather, shelter; weather forecast a usu. broadcast or printed analysis of the state of the weather with an assessment of likely developments over a certain time; weather forecaster a presenter of a weather forecast on radio, television, etc.; weather-gall (now dial.) = watergall (b) s.v. WATER noun; weather-glass (a) a kind of thermometer used to gauge air temperature and predict changes in the weather; (b) a barometer; (c) poor man's weather-glass: see POOR MAN; weather-headed adjective [prob. from WETHER after weather] empty-headed, foolish; weather helm: see HELM noun2; weather-house a toy hygroscope in the form of a small house with figures of a man and woman standing in two porches, the man coming out of his porch in wet weather and the woman out of hers in dry; weatherman (a) an observer of the weather, a meteorologist; spec. a male weather forecaster; (b) (with cap. initial) (a member of) a violent revolutionary group in the US; weather map = weather chart above; weather prophet a person who foretells the weather; weather resistance the quality of being weather-resistant; weather-resistant adjective resistant to the effects of bad weather, esp. rain; weather side (a) Nautical the windward side of a vessel etc.; (b) the side of a building, tree, etc., most exposed to the weather; weather station a meteorological observation post; weather-strip noun & verb (a) noun a strip of wood, rubber, etc., applied to a door or window to exclude rain and wind; (b) verb trans. apply a weather-strip to; weather-stripping material used to weather-strip a door or window; the process of applying this; weather-tile a kind of overlapping tile used to cover a wall; weather-tiled adjective covered with weather-tiles; weather-tiling the process of covering a wall with weather-tiles; the tiling used for this; Weather Underground the revolutionary organization formed by the Weathermen; weather-vane: see VANE 1; weather window: see WINDOW noun 3c; weather woman (a) (with cap. initial) a female member of the revolutionary Weatherman organization; (b) a female weather forecaster.
weatheri'zation noun (US) the act or process of weatherizing something L20.
weatherize verb trans. (US) make weatherproof; spec. make (a building) impervious to the weather by insulation, double-glazing, etc.: M20.
weathermost adjective (Nautical) furthest to windward M16.
weather'ology noun the branch of science that deals with the weather and its phenomena E19.
weatherward noun & adverb (Nautical) windward M16.
weatherwise adverb as regards the weather M20.
weathery adjective (rare) fitful, changing like the weather M16.