Word Meanings - WEATHERBOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.

• Weather-driven
  Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.
• WEATHERBEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak.
• Anchoritess
  An anchoress.
• Delayment
  Hindrance.
• Weather-fend
  To defend from the weather; to shelter.
• WEATHERBITTEN
  Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.
• Anchorless
  Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
• Vesselfuls
  of Vesselful
• Weatherglass
  An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope.
• WEATHERBOUND
  Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
• Vesselful
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• Weatherliness
  The quality of being weatherly.
• WEATHERDRIVEN
  Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.
• Weatherly
  Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship.

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