used the term
_waeder faest_.

WEATHER-BREEDERS. Certain appearances in the heavens which indicate a
gale, as wind-galls, fog-dogs, &c.

WEATHER-CLOTHS. Coverings of painted canvas or tarpaulin, used to
preserve the hammocks when stowed, from injury by weather.

WEATHER-COIL. When a ship has her head brought about, so as to lie that
way which her stern did before, as by the veering of the wind; or the
motion of the helm, the sails remaining trimmed.

WEATHER-COILING. A ship resuming her course after being taken aback;
rounding off by a stern-board, and coming up to it again.

WEATHER-EYE. "Keep your weather-eye open," be on your guard; look out
for squalls.

WEATHER-GAGE. A vessel has the weather-gage of another when she is to
windward of her. Metaphorically, to get the weather-gage of a person, is
to get the better of him.

WEATHER-GALL:--

"A weather-gall at morn,
Fine weather all gone."

(_See_ WIND-GALL.)

WEATHER-GLASS. A familiar term for the barometer.

WEATHER-GLEAM. A peculiar clear sky near the horizon, with great
refraction.

WEATHER-GO. The end of a rainbow, as seen in the morning in showery
weather.

WEATHER-HEAD. The secondary rainbow.

WEATHER-HELM. A ship is said to carry a weather-helm when she is
inclined to gripe, or come too near the wind, and therefore requires the
helm to be kept constantly a little to windward.

WEATHER-LURCH. A heavy roll to windward.

WEATHERLY. Said of a well-trimmed ship with a clean bottom, when she
holds a good wind, and presents such lateral resistance to the water,
that she makes but little lee-way while sailing close-hauled.

WEATHER ONE'S DIFFICULTIES, TO. A colloquial phrase meaning to contend
with and surmount troubles.

WEATHER-ROLLS. Those inclinations, so inviting to coming waves, which a
ship makes to windward in a heavy sea; the sudden rolls which she makes
to leeward being termed lee-lurches.

WEATHER-ROPES. An early term for those which were tarred.

WEATHER-SHEETS. Those fast to the weather-clues of the sails.--"Haul
over the weather-sheets forward," applies to the jib when a vessel has
got too close to the wind and refuses to answer her helm.

WEATHER-SHORE. The shore which lies to windward of a ship.

WEATHER-SIDE. That side of a ship on which the wind blows; it is the
promenade for superior officers. (See also its synonym WINDWARD.)

WEATHER THE CAPE, TO. To become experienced; as it implies sailing round
Cape Horn, o