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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The accumulated proverbs and superstitions relative to the weather, especially in its relation to man, animals, the stars, the moon, and plants.

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Examples

  • He must know about tides and rips and eddies, bar and channel markings, and day and night signals; he must be wise in weather-lore; and he must be sympathetically familiar with the peculiar qualities of his boat which differentiate it from every other boat that was ever built and rigged.

    SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

  • First, it is likely that before the rise of the Ionian epos there existed in Boeotia a purely popular and indigenous poetry of a crude form: it comprised, we may suppose, versified proverbs and precepts relating to life in general, agricultural maxims, weather-lore, and the like.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • First, it is likely that before the rise of the Ionian epos there existed in Boeotia a purely popular and indigenous poetry of a crude form: it comprised, we may suppose, versified proverbs and precepts relating to life in general, agricultural maxims, weather-lore, and the like.

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • Emerging from the plantation, an angry gust, laden with cold drops, dashed itself in her face, and she knew from the weather-lore which she, as a child of the hills, had learned in past years, that a wild night was between her and the house whose shelter she sought in her despair.

    Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

  • Now save for the hours by the camp fire when he passionately blurted out again and again the tale of his rebellion until Brian knew his life as he knew the weather-lore of the open road, he seemed ever on the verge of laughter.

    Kenny Leona Dalrymple

  • He must know about tides and rips and eddies, bar and channel markings, and day and night signals; he must be wise in weather-lore; and he must be sympathetically familiar with the peculiar qualities of his boat which differentiate it from every other boat that was ever built and rigged.

    Small-Boat Sailing 1917

  • He must know about tides and rips and eddies, bar and channel markings, and day and night signals; he must be wise in weather-lore; and he must be sympathetically familiar with the peculiar qualities of his boat which differentiate it from every other boat that was ever built and rigged.

    Small-Boat Sailing:Jack London Ranch Album 1912

  • He must know about tides and rips and eddies, bar and channel markings, and day and night signals; he must be wise in weather-lore; and he must be sympathetically familiar with the peculiar qualities of his boat which differentiate it from every other boat that was ever built and rigged.

    The Joy Of Small-Boat Sailing 1912

  • He must know about tides and rips and eddies, bar and channel markings, and day and night signals; he must be wise in weather-lore; and he must be sympathetically familiar with the peculiar qualities of his boat which differentiate it from every other boat that was ever built and rigged.

    Small Boat Sailing With Jack London 1912

  • "Do any of you girls understand weather-lore?" asked Mrs. Vernon.

    Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

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