Word Meanings - WEATHERSTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering instruments; of the second order when only important observations are taken; of the third order when simpler work is done, as to record rainfall and maximum and minimum temperatures.

• Third-borough
  An under constable.
• Weather-driven
  Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.
• MAKEGAME
  An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.
• WEATHERBEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak.
• Makeshift
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
• Orderly
  Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan.
• Seconding
  of Second
• Stationing
  of Station
• Thirdings
  The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.
• Weather-fend
  To defend from the weather; to shelter.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Important
  Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.
• WEATHERBITTEN
  Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.
• Make-up
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.
• Orderlies
  of Orderly
• Secondarily
  In a secondary manner or degree.
• Stational
  Of or pertaining to a station.
• Thirdly
  In the third place.
• 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.

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