Word Meanings - LOWERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.

• Weatherworn
  Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather.
• Weatherbit
  To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass.
• LOWERCASE
  Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
• Weather-bitten
  Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather.
• Weatherboard
  That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.
• WEATHERBEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak.
• Weather-board
  To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc.
• WEATHERBITTEN
  Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.
• Weatherboarding
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.
• WEATHERBOUND
  Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
• Weather-bound
  Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
• WEATHERDRIVEN
  Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.
• Weathercock
  A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction.
• WEATHERFEND
  To defend from the weather; to shelter. Shak. [We] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof. Emerson.
• Lowering
  of Lower
• Weather-driven
  Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.

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