Wether. Properly, the air; hence,

The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, and the like; as warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather; calm weather; tempestuous weather; fair weather; cloudy weather; hazy weather, and the like.

Change of the state of the air.

Storm; tempest. [These last significations are not now in use, unless by a poetic license.,I . Stress of weather, violent winds; force of tempests.

wether.

To air; to expose to the air.

In seamens language, to sail to the windward of something else; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship. As this is often difficult, hence,

To pass with difficulty. To weather a point, to gain or accomplish it against opposition. To weather out, to endure; to hold out to the end; as, to weather out a storm. Weather is used with several words, either as an adjective, or as forming part of a compound word.