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To deprive of feathers; to strip. [R.]

To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.

To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed.

To breathe up or out; to exhale. [Obs.] Marston.

To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow.

Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.

The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.

any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc. Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather. Shak. Fair weather cometh out of the north. Job xxxvii. 22.

ht of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather, and the direction and velocity of the wind. Isobars and isotherms outline the general distribution of temperature and pressure, while shaded areas indicate the sections over which rain has just fallen. Other lines inclose…

Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weather Bureau includes temperature, cold or hot wave, rain or snow, wind direction, storm, and hurricane signals.

A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering instruments; of the second order when only important observations are taken;…

Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak.

A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.

Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.

To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc. Gwilt.

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.