WEATHER

WEATHER is also used as an adjective, applied by mariners to every thing lying to windward of a particular situation. Thus a ship is laid to have the weather-gage of another, when the is further to-windward. Thus also, when a ship under sail presents either of her sides to the wind, it is then called the weather-side; 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. See the article LEE.

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