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(noun) - (1) A weather prophet.
--Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
(2) By the colour or hue of the scaum atmospheric haze do watherwiseakers guess about coming weather.
--John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
(3) From wiseacre, a wise or learned person; a sage.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1928
January 17, 2018