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The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C.

A climate. [Obs.] Shak.

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

conceive nor name thee! Shak. You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate. Swift.

train; acclimate.

, by means of discretive particles, as but, though, yet, etc.; as, travelers change their climate, but not their temper.

Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate. [R.]

Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold. [Obs.] Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable. Sir W. Raleigh.

creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. [Written also doub grass.]

, powder post. Hebert. -- Dry stove, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. Brande & C. -- Dry vat, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles. -- Dry wine, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and…

The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. [Colloq.]

Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument.

Pertaining to the regions or climate of the equinoctial line or equator; in or near that line; as, equinoctial heat; an equinoctial sun.

Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc. "Under a southern exposure. Evelyn. The best exposure of the two for woodcocks. Sir. W. Scott.

enient. A place very favorable for the making levies of men. Clarendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. Sir W. Temple.

y are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.

entive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination. Though he in a fertile climate dwell. Shak.

Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.

under Mile. -- Geographical variation, any variation of a species which is dependent on climate or other geographical conditions.

als, etc., and applies the principles of physics to the explanation of the diversities of climate, productions, etc. -- Political geography treats of the different countries into which earth is divided with regard to political and social and institutions and conditions.