weathermost

[Eng. weather; -most.] Naut.: Being furthest to the windward. "The weathermost portion of the sail exercises very little power on the ship."- Field , Feb. 25. 1888. *weath-er-ol-ô-gy, s . [Eng. weather; -ology .] A humorously coined word to expre the science of the weather. ( Byron .) weave (1), *weve (pa. t. * waf , #weaved , wove , pa. par. #weaved , woven , * wovun ), v. t . & i . [A. S. wefan (pa. t. wæf , pa. par. wefen ); cogn. with Dut. weven ; Icel. vefa (pa. t. vaf , pa. par. ofinn ); Dan. væve ; Sw. vefva ; Ger. weben (pa. t. wob , pa. par. gewoben ); Sansc. vá , ve , vap .] A. Transitive : 1. To form by the interlacing of anything flexible, such as threads, yarns, filaments, or strips of different materials; to form by texture, or by the insertion and interlacing of one part of a material within another. "The women wove hangings for the grove." -2 Kings xxiii. 7. 2. To form a texture with; to interlace or intertwine so as to form a fabric. "When she weaved the sleided silk." Shakesp.: Pericles, iv. (Chorus.) 3. To entwine; to unite by intermixture or close connection; to unite closely or intimately. "Those [notions] which are supposed woven into the very principles of their being."-Locke: Human Understand., bk. i., ch. ii. *4. To contrive, fabricate, or construct with design or elaborate care; as, to weave a plot. IMG:content-0751.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To become woven or interwoven. "The amorous vine which in the elm still weaves." W. Browne. II. Manége: To make a motion of the head, neck, and body from side to side, like the shuttle of a weaver. (Said of a horse.) *weave (2), v. i. . [WAVE, v.] Α. In trans .: Τo wave, to float, to fluctuate, to waver. ""Twixt life and death, long to and fro she weaved. " Spenser: F. Q., V. v. 10. B. Trans.: To wave, to shake, to brandish. "Shaking a pike and weaving them amaine." Hackluyt: Voyages, iii. 566. *weaved, pret . & pa . par . of v. [WEAVE (1), v.] weav-er, *weyv-er, s. [Eng. weave (1), v.; -er.] I. Ord. Lang .: One who weaves; one whose occupation is to weave cloth, . "Then weavers stretch your stays upon the weft." Dryden: Virgil; Georgic i. 381. IMG:content-0752.png:[blocks in formation]