Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any phenomenon or sensation indicating state or change of weather; hence, generally, any prognostic or sign.
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Examples
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The only weather-sign that occurs to any one is the old
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The Villa Nardi stands in pleasant relations to Vesuvius, which is just across the bay, and is not so useless as it has been represented; it is our weather-sign and prophet.
Saunterings Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The Villa Nardi stands in pleasant relations to Vesuvius, which is just across the bay, and is not so useless as it has been represented; it is our weather-sign and prophet.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Rube, who boasted he could read weather-sign like a "salt-sea sailor," scrutinised the sky.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
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[Footnote 253: _Opua_ means a distinct cloud-pile, an omen, a weather-sign.] [Footnote 254: The word _na-ú_ refers to a sportive contest involving a trial of lung-power, that was practised by the youth of Kona, Hawaii, as well as of other places.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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