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-shrouds, the weather-lifts, the weather-braces, &c.

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