Fair-weather
(a.) Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice |
Fair-weather
(a.) Appearing only when times or circumstances are prosperous |
Observation
(n.) The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice |
Observation
(n.) The result of an act, or of acts, of observing |
Observation
(n.) Hence: An expression of an opinion or judgment upon what one has observed |
Observation
(n.) Performance of what is prescribed |
Observation
(n.) The act of recognizing and noting some fact or occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the structure of an animal. |
Observation
(n.) Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock |
Observation
(n.) The information so acquired. |
Station
(n.) The act of standing |
Station
(n.) A state of standing or rest |
Station
(n.) The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time |
Station
(n.) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route |
Station
(n.) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct. |
Station
(n.) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying. |
Station
(n.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs |
Station
(n.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely. |
Station
(n.) A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty. |
Station
(n.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them |
Station
(n.) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc. |
Station
(n.) Post assigned |
Station
(n.) Situation |
Station
(n.) State |
Station
(n.) The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion. |
Station
(n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers. |
Station
(n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion |
Station
(v. t.) To place |
Weather
(n.) 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 |
Weather
(n.) Vicissitude of season |
Weather
(n.) Storm |
Weather
(n.) A light rain |
Weather
(v. t.) To expose to the air |
Weather
(v. t.) Hence, to sustain the trying effect of |
Weather
(v. t.) To sail or pass to the windward of |
Weather
(v. t.) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air. |
Weather
(v. i.) To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere |
Weather
(a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee |
Weather-beaten
(a.) Beaten or harassed by the weather |
Weather-bit
(n.) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits. |
Weather-bitten
(a.) Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. |
Weather-board
(v. t.) To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc. |
Weather-bound
(a.) Kept in port or at anchor by storms |
Weather-driven
(a.) Driven by winds or storms |
Weather-fend
(v. t.) To defend from the weather |