Crossword clues for weathered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weather \Weath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Weathering.]
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To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.
[An eagle] soaring through his wide empire of the air To weather his broad sails.
--Spenser.This gear lacks weathering.
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Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm.
For I can weather the roughest gale.
--Longfellow.You will weather the difficulties yet.
--F. W. Robertson. (Naut.) To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship.
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(Falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air. --Encyc. Brit. To weather a point.
(Naut.) To pass a point of land, leaving it on the lee side.
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Hence, to gain or accomplish anything against opposition.
To weather out, to encounter successfully, though with difficulty; as, to weather out a storm.
Weathered \Weath"ered\, a.
(Arch.) Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.
(Geol.) Having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements.
Wiktionary
worn by weather; as of rocks, stone, etc. v
(en-past of: weather)
WordNet
adj. worn by exposure to the weather; "a house of weathered shingles" [syn: weather-beaten, weatherworn]
Wikipedia
Weathered is the third studio album by American rock band Creed, released on November 20, 2001. Some versions are enhanced CDs and include videos. It has been certified 6× platinum by the RIAA. The album entered the Billboard 200 at number one, selling 887,000 copies in its first week of release, and remained in the top spot for eight consecutive weeks, a record which Creed shares with The Beatles album 1. The album contains Creed's shortest ("Freedom Fighter") and longest ("Who's Got My Back?") song. The album sold more than 6 million copies in the U.S alone.
Weathered was the last Creed album released until Full Circle came out in 2009, with the band disbanding for five years during the interim. It is the only Creed album not to include bass guitarist Brian Marshall, who departed from the band in 2000 for reasons that were never fully clarified. Mark Tremonti, the band's guitarist, played the album's bass parts. The album received mixed reviews from critics.
"Weathered" is a song by American hard rock band Creed. It was released in November 2002 as the last single from their album, Weathered.
Weathered is the debut extended play (EP) by American singer-songwriter Angie Miller. It was released independently on November 12, 2014. Weathered serves as her first release after placing in the Top 3 on the twelfth season of American Idol.
Usage examples of "weathered".
On either side were fallen columns and architraves whose carvings were too weathered for Garric to be quite sure of their subject.
Daon Ramon wore snow rime like snagged silk around weathered rims of bared rock.
Rome has weathered more and worse, over the centuriesArianism, Manichaeism, Maximianism, Rogatism, Circoncillianism, Donatism, Catharism, Monophysitism, Baldarism, and at least a score morethis Yorkism, too, will burn itself out, die, eventually be stamped out.
The sun and rain had long ago faded his weathered overcloak, once probably blue, to an indeterminate gray.
Thus, the holt had its own underground and overground systems, each tunnel or hollow carved out and weathered to smoothness by time and use.
Nya grinned and led him away from the picnickers, past a clump of mesquite, towards a weathered outhouse half hidden by thick stalks of wild sorghum.
Oscar Roone was a lanky man of sixty with bushy eyebrows and a perpetual scowl on his weathered face.
Thanks, too, to my oldest and closest friend, Peter Marshall, with whom I have weathered many storms, and to Rob Gardner, Joseph and Sherry Jahoda, Roel Oostra, Joseph and Laura Schor, Niven Sinclair, Colin Skinner and Clem Vallance, all of whom gave me good advice.
Many heads did turn to glance without interest at the two soldiers, Shamus in his splendid Kingsmen dress and Colleen in her weathered traveling outfit.
Some of them might have weathered a Ghost Wind, an unseasonable release of kireseth pollen.
He was wearing a hsaie greatcoat over plain shirt and trousers, a sweep of unshaped river-green brocade that set off the weathered ivory of his skin.
Raraku had known many such storms, yet it weathered them as it did all things, with untethered skin of sand and the solid truth of stone.
Her eyes shone with joy as she patted his cheek as though he were a boy and not a weathered soldier.
Elinor stepped quietly among the still-sleeping children and walked out the back door carrying her weathered black bag with her.
Set off by her deeply weathered skin, the brilliance of that color made her gray-and-white streaked hair seem dingier, and her thin frame bonier than ever.