WAY 
Europe, has further shown that the pollen 
lias no share wliatever in the formation of 
wax, but that this latter substance is pro- 
duced indiscriniiiialely from honey, sugar, 
or any other saccharine matter which serves 
as food for tlie bees. 
WAY, a passage or road. The Roman 
ways are divided into consular, praetorian, 
military, and public ; and of these we have 
four remarkable ones in England : the first, 
Watling street, or Watheling-street, leading 
from Dover to London, Dunstable, Towces- 
ter, Atterston, and the Severn, extending 
as tar as Anglesea in Wales. The second, 
called Hikenild, or Ikenild-street, stretches 
from Southampton over the river Isis, at 
Newbridge; tlience by Camden and Lich- 
field ; then passes the Derwent, near Der- 
by, and ends at Tinmouth. The third, call- 
ed Fosse- way, because in some places it was 
never perfected ; but lies as a large ditch, 
leads from Cornwall through Devonshire, 
by Tethbnry, near Stow in the Wolds; and 
beside Coventry to Leicester, Newark, and 
so to Lincoln. The fourth, called Erming, 
or Erminage-street, extends from St. Da- 
vid’s, in Wales, to Southampton. 
Way, in law. A way may be by prescrip- 
tion, as, if the owners and occupiers of such 
a farm have immemorially used to cross 
another’s ground ; for this immemorial usage 
implies an original grant. A right of way 
may also arise by act and operation of law ; 
for if a man grant to another a piece of 
ground in the middle of his field, he at the 
same time tacitly gives him a way to come 
at it; for where the law gives any thing to 
any person, it gives implied whatever is ne- 
cessary for enjoying the same. 
Way, milky. See Galaxy. 
Way of a ship, is sometimes the same as 
her rake, or run forward or backward : but 
this term is most commonly understood of 
her sailing. Thus when she goes apace, it 
is said, that she hath a good way, or makes 
a fresh way. So when an account is kept 
how fast she sails by the log, it is called 
keeping an account of her way ; and be- 
cause most ships are apt to fall a little to 
leeward of their true course, they always, 
m casting up the log board, allow something 
for her leeward way. 
Way of the rounds, in fortification,.' is a 
space left for the passage of the rounds be- 
tween the rampart and the wall of a forti- 
fied town. This is not now much in use ; 
because the parapet, not being above a foot 
thick, is soon overthrown by the enemy’s 
cannon. 
WEA 
WEATHER, rules for judging of. 1 . The 
lisingof the mercury presages, in general, 
fair weather; and its falling foul weather, 
as rain, snow, high winds, and storms. 
When the surface of the mercury is convex, 
or staiids higher in the middle than at the 
sides, it is a sign the mercury is then in a 
rising state ; but if the surface be concave or 
hollow in the middle, it is then sinking. 2. In 
very hot weather, the falling of the raer- 
cury indicates thunder. 3. In winter, the 
rising presages frost ; and in frosty wea- 
ther, if the mercury falls three or four divi- 
sions, there will be a thaw ; but, in a con- 
tinued frost, if the mercury rises, it will 
certainly snow. 4. When foul weather 
happens soon after the depression of the 
mercury, expect but little of it ; on the 
contrary, expect but little fair weather 
when it proves fair shortly after the mercu- 
ry has risen. 5. In foul weather, when the 
mercury rises much and high, and so conti- 
nues for two or three days before the bad 
weather is entirely over, then a continuance 
of fair weather may be expected. 6. In 
fair weather, when the mercury falls much 
and low, and thus continues for two or three 
days before the rain comes, then a deal of 
wet may be expected, and probably high 
winds. 7. The unsettled motion of the 
mercury denotes unsettled weather. 8. The 
words engraved on the scale are not so 
much to be attended to, as the rising and 
falling of the mercury ; for, if it stand at 
much rain, and then rises to changeable, it 
denotes fair weather, though not to conti- 
nue so long as if the mercury had risen 
higher. If the mercury stands at fair, and 
falls to changeable, bad M'eather may be 
expected. 9. In winter, .spring, and au- 
tumn, the sudden falling of the mercury, 
and that for a large space, denotes high 
winds and storms ; but in summer it pre- 
sages heavy showers, and often thunder. It 
always sinks lowest of all for great winds, 
though not accompanied with rain ; but it 
falls more for wind and rahi together, than 
for either of them alone. 10. If after rain 
the wind change into any part of the north, 
with a clear and dry sky, and the mercury 
rise, it is a certain sign of fair weather. 
11 . After very great stonns of wind, when 
the mercury has been low, it commonly 
rises again very fast. In settled fair wea- 
ther, except the barometer sink much, ex- 
pect but little rain. In a wet season, the 
smallest depressions must be attended to ; 
for when the air is much inclined to show- 
ers, a little sinking in the barometer de 
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