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Weather
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(v. t.) To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.
(4):
(n.) Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.
(5):
(n.) Storm; tempest.
(6):
(a.) Being toward the wind, or windward - opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc.
(7):
(n.) A light rain; a shower.
(8):
(v. i.) 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.
(9):
(v. t.) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
(10):
(v. t.) Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Weather'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/w/weather.html. 1828.
