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full-dress uniform. Undress parade (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.

Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health. -- Un*friend"li*ness, n.

e attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely. Aye undiscreet, and changing as a vane. Chaucer.…

Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.

al to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state. I must make fair weather yet awhile, Till Henry be more weak, and I more strong. Shak.

Weather. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. "Wet October's torrent flood." Milton.

oist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy, or misty; as, the wetness of weather or the season.

ion and force are dangerous to shipping, etc. The wind-signal system of the United States Weather Bureau consists of storm, information, hurricane, hot wind, and inland storm signals.

prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.

The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.

Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.

pecies is wingless. -- Winter oil, oil prepared so as not to solidify in moderately cold weather. -- Winter pear, a kind of pear that keeps well in winter, or that does not ripen until winter. -- Winter quarters, the quarters of troops during the winter; a winter residence or station. -- Winter rye, a kind of rye t…

Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.

A house or shed in which wood is stored, and sheltered from the weather.

as a cathartic. Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room. Grew.

tico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather.