weather symbol (weersimbol)

A conventional sign used in meteorological records, or in published meteorological observations or weather-maps, to represent graphically any designated phenomenon. The following symbols have been adopted by the International Meteorological Congre to represent the principal hydrometeors and a few other phenomena. Rain,; snow, *; thunderstorm,: lightning, hail, 4; mist, 3 frost, 11; dew, 2; snowdrift, + high wind, solar corona, solar halo, lunar corona,; lunar halo,; rainbow, ); aurora,; haze, dust haze, ∞. Anchors well in the fir me soile of Heaven that are weather- waft up and down with every eddy-wind of every new N. Ward , Simple Cobler, p. 20. doctrine. weather-wind (weTH'er-wind), n. [A corrup- tion of withywind for withwind .] Bindweed. Hall i well. [Provincial.] weather-wise (weH'er-wiz), a . [ weder- wis ; weather + wise1 .] Skilful in prognosti- cating the changes of the weather. For thorw werre and wykked werkes and wederes vnre- sonable, We der wise shipmen and witti clerkes also Han no bilieue to the lifte ne to the lore of phi los of res. Piers Plowman (B), xv. 350. weather-wisert (weTH'er-wizer), n. [ wea- ther + * wiser , indicator; cf. waywiser .] Some- thing that foretells the changes of the weather. The flowers of pimpernel, the opening and shutting of which are the countryman's weather -wiser. Derham, Physico-Theol., x., note. weather-work (weth'er-werk), n . Defense or provision against the wind, sea, etc. Cook , Voyages, III. i. 3. (Encyc. Dict.) weather-worn (weth'er-worn), a . [ worn .] Worn, injured, or defaced by the action of the weather; weathered. That will stand all storms; you need not mistrust A weather - wreck . Proclaim that I can sing, weave , sew, and dance. Shak.; Pericles, iv. 6. 194. They that pretend to wonders must weave cunningly. Fletcher , Spanish Curate, ii. 1. Ful wonderliche it the weues , wel I wot the so the. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 922. Shaking a pike of fire in defiance of the enemie, and weau- ing them amaine, we bad them come aboord. Hakluyt's Voyages , III. 566. That comli lad i cayres to hire chaumber, & weued vp a window. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2978. II. in trans. 1. To wave; waver; float about. To cold coles sche schal be brent zit or come eue; & the aschis of hire body with the wind weue . He saugh the stroke come and wevyd a-side. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 389. See weevil . IMG:content-2185.jpg:[blocks in formation] weaver (we'ver), n. [ wevere , wevar , wefere = MD. D. wever = OHG. weber i , MHG. web are , G. weber = Sw. väfvare = Dan. væver , a weaver; as weavel + -er1. Cf. webber .] 1. One Wewars also of wolne and lynnyn. Quoted in Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), Pref., p. xlvii. Weavers were supposed to be generally good singers. Their trade being sedentary, they had an opportunity of practising, and sometimes in parts, while they were at work. War burton adds that many of the weavers in Queen Elizabeth's days were Flemish Calvinists, who fled from the persecution of the Duke of Alva, and were therefore particularly given to singing psalms. Hence the ex- clam at i on of Falstaff, "I would I were a weaver ! I could sing psalms, and all manner of songs." 2. In ornith ., a weaver-bird.-3. In entom .: (a) A gyrinid beetle; a whirligig: so called from its intricate circlings and gyrations on the surface of the water. See whirligig , 4, and cut under Gyrinidæ. (b) A spinning-spider; a true ara- neid which weaves a web. Various groups of such spiders are distinguished by the form of their webs, as line- weavers, orb- weavers , tapestry - weavers , tube - weavers , tun- nel-weavers, etc. See spider . 4. In ichth ., same as weever. - Mahali weaver. See weaver - bird . - Sociable weaver. See weaver - bird.- Tapestry weaver. See tapestry . - Weavers' bottom, a chronic inflammation of a bursa sitnated over the tuber- osity of the ischium, occurring as a result of sitting long and constantly on a hard seat. -Yellow-crowned wea- ver. See weaver -bird. weaver-bird (we'ver-bėrd), n . One of numer- ous Old World (chiefly African and Indian) conirostral pa erine birds, noted for the dex- terity and ingenuity with which they weave the materials of their nests into a textile fab- ric, and also for the extraordinary size and un- usual shape of some of these structures. The name weaver - bird , in its present broad sense, is modern, and appears to have originally specified a single species (see below). In the last and early in the present century the birds of this group which were then known were cla ed with the finches and grosbeaks, sometimes with the ori- oles, mainly according to the thickne of the bill, and some of them received still more misleading names. Though there was an Oriolus text or in 1788, the genus Ploceus was not named till 1817, and the family Ploceidæ not till 1847. With the recognition of this large and va- ried group, as well marked from the Fringillidæ by the po e ion of 10 instead of 9 primaries, an English name became a desideratum; and weavers , weaver - birds , or wea- ver - finches became synonymous with Ploceidæ , without im- plying that all the birds so named build very elaborate nests. (See Ploceus , Ploceidæ .) Two remarkable types of nest may be noted. One is the hive-nest of the republi- can or sociable weavers, many pairs of which build in com- mon an enormous domed structure. (See Philetærus , and cut under hive-nest.) The other, the usual type of nest, is pensile or pendulous, and very closely woven, like that of the American hang-nests, but more elaborate, and with a hole in one side instead of being open at the top, in this respect resembling the nests of various titmice (bush-tits IMG:content-2186.png:[graphic][merged small] IMG:content-2187.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2188.png:[blocks in formation] The