Word Meanings - WINTER-BEATEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.

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• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• WEATHERWISER
  Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• WEATHER-BIT
  A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
• WINTER'S BARK
  The aromatic bark of tree of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.
• WEATHER MAP
  A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region. Such maps usually show the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather,
• WINTERWEED
  A kind of speedwell which spreads chiefly in winter. Dr. Prior.
• WINTERY
  Wintry.
• WEATHER SIGNAL
  Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weather Bureau includes temperature, cold or hot wave, rain or snow, wind direction, storm, and hurricane signals.
• WEATHERPROOF
  Proof against rough weather.
• WEATHER-BITTEN
  Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.
• WEATHER-BOARD
  To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc. Gwilt.
• WEATHERLINESS
  The quality of being weatherly.
• WEATHER
  Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc. Weather gauge. The position of a ship to the windward of another. Fig.: A position
• SEVERE
  perhaps akin to Gr. swikns innocent, chaste: cf. F. sévère. Cf. 1. Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful. Your looks alter, as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. Waller.
• HARASSER
  One who harasses.
• WEATHERBOARD
  That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side. A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water. A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction
• WINTER-GROUND
  To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak.
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• OVERWEATHER
  To expose too long to the influence of the weather. Shak.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• TWINTER
  A domestic animal two winters old.
• AWEATHER
  On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather ! Totten.
• MIDWINTER
  The middle of winter. Dryden.
• BEWINTER
  To make wintry.