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Weathered   /wˈɛðərd/   Listen
verb
Weather  v. t.  (past & past part. weathered; pres. part. weathering)  
1.
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." "This gear lacks weathering."
2.
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." "You will weather the difficulties yet."
3.
(Naut.) To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship.
4.
(Falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
To weather a point.
(a)
(Naut.) To pass a point of land, leaving it on the lee side.
(b)
Hence, to gain or accomplish anything against opposition.
To weather out, to encounter successfully, though with difficulty; as, to weather out a storm.



Weather  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. "The organisms... seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are imbedded has weathered from around them."



adjective
Weathered  adj.  
1.
(Arch.) Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.
2.
(Geol.) Having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements.






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"Weathered" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the recollections of childhood—as he lives and seems to speak in Raeburn's inimitable portrait at Fleurs. What a perfect mould of man! scarce one mark of old age in that face—no sign of weakness or decay in that frame, which has weathered eighty winters. He was over the middle size; straight, firm, strong built, and compact, with the air of native lordliness and command. His countenance was peculiarly beautiful, full and rounded as if young; fresh-coloured; and beaming with health, spirit, and vivacity. Its almost womanly ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... the little room I view, Where, in my youth, I weathered it so long; With a wild mistress, a staunch friend or two, And a light heart still breaking into song; Making a mock of life and all its cares, Rich in the glory of my rising sun, Lightly I vaulted up four pair of stairs In the brave days when I ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill

... rig spoilt for ever." One blasphemed tearfully, holding up a pair of dripping trousers. No one looked at him. The cat came out from somewhere. He had an ovation. They snatched him from hand to hand, caressed him in a murmur of pet names. They wondered where he had "weathered it out;" disputed about it. A squabbling argument began. Two men brought in a bucket of fresh water, and all crowded round it; but Tom, lean and mewing, came up with every hair astir and had the first drink. A couple of hands went aft ...
— The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle • Joseph Conrad

... Quonab, "our deadfalls are ready; we have done all the work our fingers could not do when the weather is very cold, and the ground too hard for stakes to be driven. Now the traps can get weathered before we go round and set them. Yet we need some strong medicine, ...
— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton

... found. Duane threw on the saddle and pack, cinched them tight, and resumed his descent. The worst was now to come. Bare downward steps in rock, sliding, weathered slopes, narrow black gullies, a thousand openings in a maze of broken stone—these Duane had to descend in fast time, leading a giant of a horse. Bullet cracked the loose fragments, sent them rolling, slid on the scaly slopes, plunged down the steps, followed ...
— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey


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