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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.

tate 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.

Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.

Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers. "A wrethe of gold." Chaucer. [He] of his tortuous train Curled many a wanton wreath. Milton.

A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.

revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. [Obs.] And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser.

Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." Ex. xxviii. 22.

Destitute of a wreath.

Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths. "Wreathy spires, and cochleary turnings about." Sir T. Browne.

and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for several differ…