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▪ I. ˈveering, vbl. n.1
[f. veer v.1 3.]
The action of causing or allowing to run out; attrib. in veering cable, veering chain.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-Bk. 711 The veering cable, that cable which is veered out in unmooring, and not unspliced or unshackled in clearing hawse. 1894Times 20 Mar. 3/5 From the top of the swivel a single veering chain passed into the lightship through the hawse pipe.
▪ II. ˈveering, vbl. n.2
[f. veer v.2]
The action or fact of changing course or direction. a. Of the wind (or a vane), or in general use.
1611Cotgr., Virement, a veering, whirling, wheeling. 1696Whiston Th. Earth iv. (1722) 367 It will not now depend on the Season of the Year alone, but on the Veering of the Wind. 1809Malkin Gil Blas xi. i. (Rtldg.) 393 Scipio..asked whether the veering of the wind in the political horizon might not blow me some good. 1853Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. iv. §31 (1873) 168 Nothing apparently can be more capricious than the shifting and veering of a weather-cock on a gusty day. 1860Vaughan in Merc. Mar. Mag. VII. 323 The direction and veering of the wind..gave him..warning.
b. Of a ship. Also in fig. context.
1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. 2 Expect rough seas, flaws, and contrary blasts, and 'tis well if by many cross tacks and veerings you arrive at the port. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v., It is evident, that veering as well as tacking is a necessary consequence of the same..principle. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVI. 177/2 The disadvantage of veering is that..the ship is sometimes carried far to leeward. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia II. 301 After some tacking and veering, we worked up to the entrance.
c. In figurative uses.
1716Addison Freeholder No. 25 ⁋7 A soveraign..that is prone to fall in with all the Turns and Veerings of the People. 1780J. Brown Lett. Toleration (1803) II. 216 After much sinful veering towards the abjured abominations of Popery, they..lamented their perfidy to God. 1861Tulloch Eng. Purit. i. 147 The strange and apparently inconsistent veerings in Cromwell's own mind.
▪ III. ˈveering, vbl. n.3 south. dial.
= feering vbl. n.
1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xi. 116 The Word Veering..is the Plowman's Term for turning two Furrows toward each other, as they must do to begin a Ridge; and there⁓fore they call the Top of a Ridge, a Veering. Ibid., Our Intervals wholly consist either of Veerings or Hentings. 1839[G. C. Lewis] Hereford Gloss. 115 Ploughed land is said to be laid out into broad veerings, when many furrows are turned up on each side against the same ridge. 1882–90in Glouc. and Worc. glossaries.
▪ IV. ˈveering, ppl. a.
[f. veer v.2]
1. Changing course or direction; † turning round, revolving.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. Columnes 635 On th' other side [of the astrolabe], under a veering sight, it Table veers. 1736Yalden Poet. Wks. (1833) 66 Nor tax me with inconstancy; we find The driving bark requires a veering wind. 1798Loves of Triangles in Anti-Jacobin (1852) 124 The veering helm the dexterous steersman stops. 1827Keble Chr. Y., 3rd Sund. after Easter, Like a bright veering cloud Grey blossoms twinkle there. 1873R. W. Church Influence Christ. National Character i. 17 Fickle as the veering wind. 1896Strand Mag. XII. 250 A ringing shout of encouragement rent the veering smoke-wreaths.
2. fig. Vacillating, variable, changeful.
1684Roscommon Ess. Verse 241 But if a wild Uncertainty prevail, And turn your vearing Heart with ev'ry Gale. 1747Collins Odes, Passions, Of diff'ring themes the veering song was mix'd. c1838Mrs. Browning An Island xix, Man's veering heart and careless eyes. 1853W. Jerdan Autobiog. III. xvii. 262 It was thought a veering speech the Duke had just made in the House of Peers. 1875Poste Gaius i. 116 After much veering legislation.., Justinian enacted that a man or a woman who divorced without a cause should retire to a cloister.
Hence ˈveeringly adv., ‘changingly, shiftingly’ (Webster, 1847). |