unweather

alternative obsolete unwether

1. literaryno pluralrareBad weather; storm.

   Waiting for the weather, or the unweather. Well, we got here: gotta climb something now.

   2003, Alpinist - Issues 5-8

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   The composition of the following note did not occupy him half an hour: — Major von Wismar lets himself a thousand times be greased, and fears him the unweather shall defend for to day the premeditated walk on horseback, which Madame ― graciously vowed him for half three of the hour.

   1837, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 16

   The strangers would then have been only too gladly drenched to the skin that they might have hugged their wagered souls in the belief that this unweather was of Nature, and not of the Evil One. But the Heavens shed no tear.

   1894, James Platt, Tales of the Supernatural: Six Romantic Stories

present singular third person unweathers · participle present unweathering · participle past unweathered · past unweathered

1. transitiveTo undo or reverse the effects of weathering

   An unbendable form dries worthless, brittle, only fire unweathers cochineal mud.

   1994, World Order - Volumes 26-28

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   I sprayed the underbody with Floquil's Grimy black and also gave the sides, ends and roof a light coat of this color. This was followed by Floquil's Zinc Chromate primer mixed with about 20 percent glaze to “unweather” the car and provide a base color suitable for decal application.

   1986, Railroad Model Craftsman - Volume 55

   Occupy Sandy and other grassroots organizations work to “unweather” Sandy, to move it away from a weather-based event and toward an incident that exacerbated and made preexisting crises more apparent.

   2015, Julia Leyda, Diane Negra, Extreme Weather and Global Media