The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weather \Weath"er\, n. [OE. weder, AS. weder; akin to OS. wedar, OFries. weder, D. weder, we[^e]r, G. wetter, OHG. wetar, Icel. ve[eth]r, Dan. veir, Sw. v["a]der wind, air, weather, and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lith. vetra storm, Russ. vieter', vietr', wind, and E. wind. Cf. Wither.]
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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 weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.
Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.
--Shak.Fair weather cometh out of the north.
--Job xxxvii. 2 2. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.
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Storm; tempest.
What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud My thoughts presage!
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A light rain; a shower. [Obs.]
--Wyclif.Stress of weather, violent winds; force of tempests.
To make fair weather, to flatter; to give flattering representations. [R.]
To make good weather, or To make bad weather (Naut.), to endure a gale well or ill; -- said of a vessel.
--Shak.Under the weather, ill; also, financially embarrassed. [Colloq. U. S.]
--Bartlett.Weather box. Same as Weather house, below.
--Thackeray.Weather breeder, a fine day which is supposed to presage foul weather.
Weather bureau, a popular name for the signal service. See Signal service, under Signal, a. [U. S.]
Weather cloth (Naut.), a long piece of canvas of tarpaulin used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather when stowed in the nettings.
Weather door. (Mining) See Trapdoor, 2.
Weather gall. Same as Water gall, 2. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.Weather house, a mechanical contrivance in the form of a house, which indicates changes in atmospheric conditions by the appearance or retirement of toy images.
Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought Devised the weather house, that useful toy!
--Cowper.Weather molding, or
Weather moulding (Arch.), a canopy or cornice over a door or a window, to throw off the rain.
Weather of a windmill sail, the obliquity of the sail, or the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution.
Weather report, a daily report of meteorological observations, and of probable changes in the weather; esp., one published by government authority.
Weather spy, a stargazer; one who foretells the weather. [R.]
--Donne.Weather strip (Arch.), a strip of wood, rubber, or other material, applied to an outer door or window so as to cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc.
WordNet
n. an administrative unit responsible for gathering and interpreting meteorological data for weather study and forecasts
Usage examples of "weather bureau".
The Weather Bureau was itching to set up its hemispheric integrating station.
The weather bureau had been predicting the arrival of a cold front, she remembered.
Even if the weather bureau would not have ruled this out, it would not have accounted for the light's ability to follow the car over all sorts of terrain.
Hatch, 'phone the Weather Bureau and ask if there was a storm about midnight preceding the finding of Wagner's body.
But it was far worse back in the days when a half-dozen branches of government were working on space flight at the same time-the weather bureau, the navy, your bureau, the air force and so on.
But it was far worse back in the days when a half-dozen branches of government were working on space flight at the same timethe weather bureau, the navy, your bureau, the air force and so on.
He made a mental bet with himself that the weather bureau was off on its snow estimates by six hours.
Anyway, said Lillian severely, she called up the weather bureau and had them tell her the latest and she called it out to her husband and they said they'd go, except they said they'd phone us if there were any unexpected changes in the weather.
The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like.