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Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.

Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.

To defend from the weather; to shelter. Shak. [We] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof. Emerson.

To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass. Totten.

A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding.

The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.

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 rattled and sang of mutation. Longfellow.

Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.

state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope. Poor man's weatherglass. (Bot.) See under Poor.

The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.

The quality of being weatherly.

Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship. Cooper.

Being farthest to the windward.

Proof against rough weather.

Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather. Hakluyt.

Something that foreshows the weather. [Obs.] Derham.

Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather.

ind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately. This weaves itself, perforce, into my business. Shak. That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons. Milto…

One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. "Weavers of linen." P. Plowman.

See Weever.