a periodical wind which generally blows in Italy and Dalmatia every year about Easter. It blows from the south-east by south: it is attended with heat, but not rain; its ordinary period is twenty days, and it usually ceases at sunset. When the frocco does not blow in this manner, the summer is almost free from westerly winds, whirlwinds, and storms. This wind is prejudicial to plants, drying and burning up the buds; though it hurts not men any otherwise than by causing an extraordinary weakness and lassitude; inconveniences that are fully compensated by a plentiful fishing, and a good crop of corn on the mountains. In the summer time, when the westerly wind ceases for a day, it is a sign that the frocco will blow the day following, which usually begins with a fort of whirlwind.