v. trans. [f. WEATHER sb.] To defend from the weather; to shelter. Also fig. Hence Weather-fending ppl. a.
A Shakespearian word echoed by later writers.
1610. Shaks., Temp., V. i. 10. In the Line-groue which weather-fends your Cell.
1788. Crowe, Lewesdon Hill, 4.
| And bless this friendly mount, that weather-fends | |
| My reed-roof’d cottage. |
1800. Coleridge, Pitt & Buonaparte, in Hazlitt, Pol. Ess. (1819), 396. A young man,… sheltered and weather-fended from all the elements of experience.
1814. Wordsw., Excurs., II. 420. A penthouse, framed … To weather-fend a little turf-built seat.
1858. Emerson, Adirondacs, 35. We … Barked the white spruce to weatherfend the roof.
1873. Ruskin, Crown of Wild Olive, App. 191. Finding its work prosper, the little medicinal and weather-fending company took vows on itself.
