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trary winds.—'Philip, during his voyage towards Spain, was 
weather driven into Weymouth. Carew. 
WEATHERER, one of the smaller Shetland islands. Lat. 
80. 35. N. long. 1. 13. W. 
To WEA'THER-FEND, v. a . To shelter.—In the lime- 
grove which weather-feuds your cell. Shakspeare. 
WEA'THERGAGE, s. Any thing that shows the 
weather. 
To vere and tack, and steer a cause, 
Against the weathergage of laws. Hudibras. 
WEA'THERGLASS, s. A barometer; a glass that shows 
the weight of the air.—John’s temper depended very much 
upon the air; his spirits rose and fell with the weatherglass. 
Arbuthnot.- —A thermometer. Less used. 
As in some weatherglass my love I hold. 
Which falls or rises with the heat or cold, 
I will be constant yet. Dry den. 
WEATHERPROOF, adj. Proof against rough weather. 
—Our bark’s not weather-proof. Hilaries. 
WEATHERSFIELD, a post township of the United 
States, in Windsor county, Vermont, on the west bank of 
Connecticut river, opposite Claremont; 9 miles south-by¬ 
west of Windsor. Population 2116.—2. A township of the 
United States, in Trumbull county, Ohio, on the Mahoning. 
WEA'THERSPY, s. A star-gazer; an astrologer; one 
that foretells the weather. 
And sooner may a gulling weather spy. 
By drawing forth heav’n’s scheme, tell certainly. 
What fashion’d hats or ruffs, or suits next year, 
Our giddy-headed antick youth will wear. Donne. 
WEA'THERWISE, adj. Skilful in foretelling the 
weather. 
WEA'THERWISER, s. [weather and weisen. Germ, 
to show.] Any thing that foreshows the weather.—Most 
vegetables expand their flowers and down in warm sun¬ 
shiny weather, and again close them toward the evening, or 
in rain, as is in the flowers of pimpernel, the opening and 
shutting of which are the countryman’s weatherwiser. 
Derham. 
WEATHLEY, a hamlet of England, in Warwickshire, 
near Alcester. 
To WEAVE, v. a. pret. wove, weaved, part. pass, woven, 
weaved, [pepan, Saxon; woven, Dutch; gwcv, Welsh; 
waefwa, Su. Goth, waibjan, M. Goth. Serenius. ] To form 
by texture; to form by inserting one part of the materials 
within another. 
There our secret thoughts unseen. 
Like nets be weav'd and intertwin’d, 
Wherewith we catch each other’s mind. Carew. 
To unite by intermixture.—When religion was woven in¬ 
to the civil government, and flourished under the protection 
of the emperors, men’s thoughts and discourses were full of 
secular affairs; but in the three first centuries of Christianity 
men who embraced this religion had given up all their in¬ 
terests in this world, and lived in a perpetual preparation for 
the next. Addison .—To interpose; to insert. 
The duke be here to night! the better! best! 
This weaves itself perforce into my business. Shakspeare. 
To WEAVE, v. n. To work with a loom. 
WEAVER, s. One who makes threads into cloth. 
Upon these taxations, 
The clothiers all not able to maintain 
The many to them ’longing, have put oft’ 
The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers. Shakspeare. 
WEAVER, [araneus piscis, Latin.] A fish. Ainsworth. 
The weaver, which although his prickles venom be, 
(By fishers cut away, which buyers seldom see) 
Yet for the fish he bears, ’tis not accounted bad. Drayton. 
WEAVER, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Col- 
umpton, Devonshire.—2. A hamlet of England, in Che- 
W E B 595 
shire, on the banks of the Weaver; 3 miles from Middle- 
wieh. 
WEAVER, a river of England, in the county of Chester, 
It rises from Ridley Pool, at Cholmondeley Hole, and passes 
Nantwich, Minshull, Weaver, Winsford, and Northwich, 
where it is joined by the Dane, from the northern parts of 
Staffordshire, and two or three other streams from the central 
parts of the county. Hence it proceeds to Wareham, Acton 
Bridge, and Frodsham, where it falls into the swelling bason 
of the Mersey. The Weaver receives several tributary streams 
in the course of its progress; and, from Winsford to Frods¬ 
ham, it has been rendered navigable by means of various 
locks. The length of this navigation is 20 miles, in which 
course it has a fall of 45 feet 10 inches, divided between 10 
locks. 
WEAVER HILL, in the county of Stafford, England, 
1154 feet in height. 
WEAVERTHORPE, a township of England, in York¬ 
shire; 13 miles east of New Mai ton. 
WEB, s. [pebba, Saxon; from webjan, M. Goth, to 
weave.] Texture; any thing woven. 
Penelope, for her Ulysses’ sake. 
Devised a web her wooers to deceive; 
In which the work that she all day did make. 
The same at night she did again unreave. Spenser. 
Some part of a sword. Obsolete. Dr. Johnson. —It 
seems to have been the blade. Mason. 
The sword, whereof the web was steel; 
Pommel, rich stone; hilt, gold, approv’d by touch. 
Fairfax. 
A kind of dusky film that hinders (he sight; suffusion.— 
This is the foul flibertigibbet; lie gives the web and the pin, 
squints the eye, and makes the harelip. Shakspeare. 
WEBB (Philip-Carteret), a member of the society of 
antiquaries, was born in 1700, and admitted an attorney in 
1724, and distinguished for his acquaintance with the records 
of the kingdom, and with constitutional and parliamentary 
law. He was returned in 1754, and again in 1761, as a 
member for the borough of Haslemere; and being attached 
to the then existing administration, he obtained the place of 
secretary of bankrupts in the court of chancery, and in 
1756 became one of the joint solicitors of the treasury. He 
was employed in 1763 in conducting the prosecution against 
Mr. Wilkes, for writing a number of the North Briton; and 
printed on that occasion “ A Collection of Records about 
General Warrants,” and “ Observations on discharging Mr. 
Wilkes from the Tower.” He died at his house in Busbridge, 
Surrey, in June, 1770, and left a valuable library, and curious 
collection of coins, medals, and relics of antiquity, which 
were sold by auction. He had sold 30 MSS. of the rolls of 
parliament to the house of lords, and a number of other 
MSS. were sold to lord Shelburne, and afterwards to the 
British Museum. Among his publications we may reckon 
“ A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Warburton, on some passages 
of his Divine Legation;” “ Various Pieces relative to the 
State of the Law in this kingdom;” “ Account of some 
Particulars concerning Domesday Book;" “ A short Account 
of Danegeld“ Account of a Copper Table, discovered 
near Heraclea.” Mr. Webb was twice married, and by his 
first wife left a son of his own name. Nichols's Lit. Anecd. 
Gen. Biog. 
WEBERA [so named by Schreber, in honour of George 
Henry Weber, author of Spicilegium Florae Goettingensis, 
Gothae], in Botany, a genus of the class pentandria, order 
monogynia.—Generic Character. Calyx : perianth one- 
leafed, half-five-cleft, erect, acute, permanent. Corolla one- 
petalled, funnel-form; tube longer than the calyx; border 
five-cleft ; segments ovate-oblong, recurved. Nectary a 
fleshy ring surrounding the base of the style. Stamina : 
filaments five, very short, placed upon the tube of the corolla. 
Anthers linear, incumbent, spreading. Pistil: germ round¬ 
ish, inferior. Style simple, longer than the tube of the 
corolla. Stigma club-shaped. Pericarp: berry subglobular, 
two-celled, crowned with the calyx. Seeds solitary, or¬ 
bicular, 
