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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 wea…

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  1. 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.
  2. n. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.
  3. n. Storm; tempest.
  4. n. A light rain; a shower.
  5. v. t. To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.
  6. 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.
  7. v. t. To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship.
  8. v. t. To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
  9. 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.
  10. a. Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc.
  11. adj. towards the side exposed to wind
  12. n. the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation