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

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