Stress of weather, violent winds; force of tempests. — To make fair
weather, to flatter; to give flattering representations. [R.] — To make
good, or 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 or 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.
Weath"er (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weathered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Weathering.]