weather

1. (sailing, geology) Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.Examples: "weather side, weather helm"; "Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I—being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude—how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whale-ships’ standing orders, “Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.”"Synonyms: windwardnot-comparable

1. (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.Examples: ""Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, / And do not tremble so; / For I can weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow.""; "April 18, 1850, Frederick William Robertson, An Address Delivered to the Members of the Working Man's Institute You will weather the difficulties yet."; "Some observers have contrasted China with the US, whose economy has weathered the post-Covid recovery better. Until recently, Americans may have feared the day China would overtake them as the world's largest economy, but now analysts doubt if this will happen."broadly

2. (nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.Examples: "to weather a cape    to weather another ship"

3. (nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.Examples: "Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa."

4. (falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.Examples: "If your hawk is bad-weathered, that is, will not fit on your fist when the wind blows, but hales, and beats, and hangs by the jeſſes, ſhe has an ill habit of the worſt kind."