| • | 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. |
| • | Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air. |
| • | Storm; tempest. |
| • | A light rain; a shower. |
| • | To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air. |
| • | Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm. |
| • | To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship. |
| • | To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc. |
