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weather-wise, a. (n.)|ˈwɛðəwaɪz|
[f. weather n. + wise a.]
a. Skilled in prognostics of the weather. Also absol. as n.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 350 Wederwise shipmen. 1556S. Burrough in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 319, I maruelled why he departed so suddenly, and went ouer the shoales... But after I perceiued them to be weather wise. 1637J. Taylor (Water P.) Drinke & Welcome C 3 b, Some by their cornes are wondrous Weather-wise. 1735B. Franklin Poor Richard (1890) 50 Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise. 1802Coleridge Dejection 1 If the Bard was weather-wise, who made The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence. 1849James Woodman vi, Auguring rain to the minds of the weather-wise. 1866Steinmetz Weathercasts 35 A certain weather-wise nobleman, Lord Portarlington, predicted the intensely hot summer of last year. 1895Meredith Amazing Marr. I. xv. 167 Are you weather-wise?—able to tell when the clouds will hold off or pelt? 1922Joyce Ulysses 390 Biggish swollen clouds to be seen as the night increased and the weatherwise poring up at them.
b. fig.
1581W. Stafford Exam. Compl. i. (1876) 27 Some weather⁓wise fellowes, that coulde chaunge their opinions as the more and stronger part did chaunge theirs. 1917Gwynn & Tuckwell Sir C. Dilke li. II. 313 He was weatherwise in the assembly, and knew the conditions which might lead to unforeseen disturbance. |