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Weathered. 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. Weathered ppl. a. [f. WEATHER v. + -ED1.]

1   1.  Worn, stained or seasoned by the weather or by atmospheric influences. Also weathered out. Chiefly Geol. (See WEATHER v. 2 a, b.)

2 1789.  J. Williams, Min. Kingd., I. 420. This weathered or dissolved copper is found in many places in the state of an ochre or of a loose powder.

3 1820.  Edin. Philos. Jrnl., III. 185. The weathered surface of several specimens of calcareous sandstone.

4 1827.  Carlyle, Germ. Rom., IV. 212. The weathered aspect of the towers.

5 1843.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., I. II. I. vii. § 26. I have never yet seen any restoration or cleaned portion of a building whose effect was not inferior to the weathered parts.

6 1854.  Hooker, Himal. Jrnls., I. xi. 254. The weathered surface of each block was black.

7 1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. vii. 54. The weathered ice of the surface … could be cloven with great facility.

8 1879.  Encycl. Brit., X. 230/1. Practice enables a geologist to discriminate some rocks by the feel of their weathered or fresh surfaces.

9 1906.  Cornish N. & Q., Ser. I. 235. A collection of weathered-out crystals of felspar.

10 1914.  Moir, in Man, XIV. 180. What we have regarded as deep striæ caused by immense pressure are in all probability simply weathered out shattered scratches.

11   2.  Of a crop of grain or hay: Deteriorated by too long exposure to the elements.

12 1875.  Ure’s Dict. Arts, III. 185. Weathered barley has a dull and often a dirty appearance.

13 1879.  Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Weathered, damaged, but not spoilt, by too long exposure to weather—wet and bad harvesting weather: said of hay or corn.

14 1892.  Daily Chron., 6 Sept., 3/5. Barley is particularly liable to become ‘weathered’ and unfit for malting.

15   3.  Arch. Made sloping, so as to prevent the lodgement of water; furnished with a weathering or water-table.

16 1840.  Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl., III. 2/1. Two octagonal turrets … strengthened by massive double buttresses in three stages, the lower part terminating in weathered canopies, the middle having weathered offsets.

17 1879.  Cassell’s Techn. Educ., II. 294/1. Copings are worked with … an inclined or ‘weathered’ upper surface.

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