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Weather-fend. World English Historical Dictionary

Weather-fend. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Weather-fend v. trans. [f. WEATHER sb.] To defend from the weather; to shelter. Also fig. Hence Weather-fending ppl. a.

1   A Shakespearian word echoed by later writers.

2 1610.  Shaks., Temp., V. i. 10. In the Line-groue which weather-fends your Cell.

3 1788.  Crowe, Lewesdon Hill, 4.        And bless this friendly mount, that weather-fends My reed-roof’d cottage.

4 1800.  Coleridge, Pitt & Buonaparte, in Hazlitt, Pol. Ess. (1819), 396. A young man,… sheltered and weather-fended from all the elements of experience.

5 1814.  Wordsw., Excurs., II. 420. A penthouse, framed … To weather-fend a little turf-built seat.

6 1858.  Emerson, Adirondacs, 35. We … Barked the white spruce to weatherfend the roof.

7 1873.  Ruskin, Crown of Wild Olive, App. 191. Finding its work prosper, the little medicinal and weather-fending company took vows on itself.

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