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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.

ght 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.

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.