Weather /(?)/

1. The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or 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.

   Fair weather cometh out of the north.

2. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.
3. Storm; tempest.

   What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud My thoughts presage!

4. A light rain; a shower. [Obs.]

   Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought Devised the weather house, that useful toy!

imp. & p. p. Weathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Weathering

1. To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.

   [An eagle] soaring through his wide empire of the air To weather his broad sails.

   This gear lacks weathering.

2. Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm.

   For I can weather the roughest gale.

   You will weather the difficulties yet.

3. To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship. (Naut.)
4. To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air. (Falconry)

1. To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away, or alter, under atmospheric influences; to suffer waste by weather.

   The organisms . . . seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are imbedded has weathered from around them.

1. Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc. (Naut.)

   To veer, and tack, and steer a cause Against the weather gauge of laws.