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.-vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.-storm; tempest.-a light rain; a shower.-to expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.-hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm.-to sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship.-to place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.-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.-being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc.