[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

trapdoor \trap"door`\, n.
   1. arch. a lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a
      roof or floor.
      1913 webster

   2. mining a door in a level for regulating the ventilating
      current; -- called also weather door. --raymond.
      1913 webster

   trapdoor spider zool., any one of several species of
      large spiders which make a nest consisting of a vertical
      hole in the earth, lined with a hinged lid, like a
      trapdoor. most of the species belong to the genus
      cteniza, as the california species cteniza
      californica.
      1913 webster
see also:
weather door trapdoor spider cteniza cteniza californica 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

weather \weath"er\, n. oe. weder, as. weder; akin to os. wedar,
   ofries. weder, d. weder, we^er, g. wetter, ohg. wetar,
   icel. veethr, dan. veir, sw. vaumder wind, air, weather,
   and perhaps to oslav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to lith.
   vetra storm, russ. vieter', vietr', wind, and e. wind. cf.
   wither.
   1913 webster
   1. the state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or
      cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or
      cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena;
      meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm
      weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.
      1913 webster

            not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

            fair weather cometh out of the north. --job xxxvii.
                                                  22.
      1913 webster

   2. vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation
      of the state of the air. --bacon.
      1913 webster

   3. storm; tempest.
      1913 webster

            what gusts of weather from that gathering cloud
            my thoughts presage                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. a light rain; a shower. obs. --wyclif.
      1913 webster

   stress of weather, violent winds; force of tempests.

   to make fair weather, to flatter; to give flattering
      representations. r.

   to make good weather, or to make bad weather naut., to
      endure a gale well or ill; -- said of a vessel. --shak.

   under the weather, ill; also, financially embarrassed.
      colloq. u. s. --bartlett.

   weather box. same as weather house, below. --thackeray.

   weather breeder, a fine day which is supposed to presage
      foul weather.

   weather bureau, a popular name for the signal service. see
      signal service, under signal, a. u. s.

   weather cloth naut., a long piece of canvas of tarpaulin
      used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather
      when stowed in the nettings.

   weather door. mining see trapdoor, 2.

   weather gall. same as water gall, 2. prov. eng.
      --halliwell.

   weather house, a mechanical contrivance in the form of a
      house, which indicates changes in atmospheric conditions
      by the appearance or retirement of toy images.
      1913 webster

            peace to the artist whose ingenious thought
            devised the weather house, that useful toy
                                                  --cowper.
      1913 webster

   weather molding, or

   weather moulding arch., a canopy or cornice over a door
      or a window, to throw off the rain.

   weather of a windmill sail, the obliquity of the sail, or
      the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution.

   weather report, a daily report of meteorological
      observations, and of probable changes in the weather;
      esp., one published by government authority.

   weather spy, a stargazer; one who foretells the weather.
      r. --donne.

   weather strip arch., a strip of wood, rubber, or other
      material, applied to an outer door or window so as to
      cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or
      threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc.
      1913 webster
see also:
wither stress of weather to make fair weather to make good weather to make bad weather under the weather 
weather box weather house weather breeder weather bureau signal service 
signal weather cloth weather door trapdoor weather gall 
water gall weather molding weather moulding weather of a windmill sail weather report 
weather spy weather strip 

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