Word Meanings - ASTROMETEOROLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The investigation of the relation between the sun, moon, and stars, and the weather. -- As`*tro*me`te*or`o*log"ic*al, a. -- As`tro*me`te*or*ol"o*gist, n.

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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.
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• 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
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• 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.
• WEATHER-BIT
  A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
• 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,
• 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.
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• 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
• WEATHERBIT
  To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass. Totten.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• WEATHERWISE
  Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather. Hakluyt.
• WEATHER-BOUND
  Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
• WEATHER-DRIVEN
  Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• OVERWEATHER
  To expose too long to the influence of the weather. Shak.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• AWEATHER
  On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather ! Totten.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• CO-RELATION
  Corresponding relation.