sea-language, is used as an adjective, and applied by mariners to every thing lying to windward of a particular situation; thus, a ship is said to have the weather-gage of another, when she is farther to windward. Thus also, when a ship under sail presents either of her sides to the wind, it is then called the weather-side or weather-board; and all the rigging and furniture situated thereon are distinguished by the same epithet, as the weather-jibboom, the weather-luff, the weather-braces, &c.

To Weather, in sea-language, is to fail to windward of some ship, bank, or head-land.