ˈweather-fend, v. trans.
[f. weather n.]
To defend from the weather; to shelter. Also fig. Hence ˈweather-fending ppl. a.
A Shakespearian word echoed by later writers.
| 1610 Shakes. Temp. v. i. 10 In the Line-groue which weather-fends your Cell. 1788 Crowe Levesdon Hill 4 This friendly mount, that weather-fends My reed-roof'd cottage. 1800 Coleridge Pitt & Buonaparte in Hazlitt Pol. Ess. (1819) 396 A young man,..sheltered and weather-fended from all the elements of experience. 1814 Wordsw. Excurs. ii. 420 A penthouse, framed..To weather-fend a little turf-built seat. 1858 Emerson Adirondacs 35 We..Barked the white spruce to weatherfend the roof. 1873 Ruskin Crown of Wild Olive App. 191 Finding its work prosper, the little medicinal and weather-fending company took vows on itself. |