Word Meanings - WEATHER-DRIVEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.

• Forcibleness
  The quality of being forcible.
• Weatherboard
  That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.
• Windstorm
  A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.
• Forcibly
  In a forcible manner.
• Weather-board
  To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc.
• FORCIBLEFEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He [Prof. Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review.
• Forcipal
  Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.
• Weatherboarding
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.
• FORCIPATEFORCIPATED
  Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.
• Forcarve
  To cut completely; to cut off.
• Forcipate
  Alt. of Forcipated
• Weather-bound
  Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
• Forcipated
  Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.
• 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.
• WEATHERBEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak.
• Forcipation
  Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.

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