n. Wind; storm; tempest.n. Cold and wet.n. A light rain; a shower.n. The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to its cloudiness, humidity, motions, pressure, temperature, electrical condition, or any other meteorological phenomena; the atmospheric conditions prevailing at any moment over any region of the earth: as, warm or cold weather; wet or dry weather; calm or stormy weather; fair or foul weather; cloudy or hazy weather.n. Specifically, in weather-maps and -reports, the condition of the sky as to cloudiness and the occurrence of precipitation.n. Change of the state of the atmosphere; meteorological change; hence, figuratively, vicissitude; change of fortune or condition.n. The inclination or obliquity of the sails of a windmill to the plane of revolution.n. An enervating atmosphere.Nautical, toward the wind; windward: opposed to lee: as, weather bow; weather beam; weather riggingTo air; expose to the air; dry or otherwise affect by exposure to the open air.To affect injuriously by the action of weather; in geology, to discolor or disintegrate: as, the atmospheric agencies that weather rocks.In tile manufacturing, to expose (the clay) to a hot sun or to frost, in order to open the pores and separate the particles, that it may readily absorb water and be easily worked.To slope (a surface), that it may shed water.Nautical:To sail to windward of: as, to weather a point or cape.To bear up against and come safely through: said of a ship in a storm, as also of a mariner; hence, used in the same sense with reference to storms on land.Figuratively, to bear up against and overcome, as trouble or danger; come out of, as a trial, without permanent damage or loss.To suffer a change, such as discoloration or more or less complete disintegration, in consequence of exposure to the weather or atmosphere. See weathering, 2.To resist or bear exposure to the weather.