ppl. a. [f. WEATHER v. + -ED1.]

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  1.  Worn, stained or seasoned by the weather or by atmospheric influences. Also weathered out. Chiefly Geol. (See WEATHER v. 2 a, b.)

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1789.  J. Williams, Min. Kingd., I. 420. This weathered or dissolved copper is found in many places in the state of an ochre or of a loose powder.

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1820.  Edin. Philos. Jrnl., III. 185. The weathered surface of several specimens of calcareous sandstone.

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1827.  Carlyle, Germ. Rom., IV. 212. The weathered aspect of the towers.

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1843.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., I. II. I. vii. § 26. I have never yet seen any restoration or cleaned portion of a building whose effect was not inferior to the weathered parts.

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1854.  Hooker, Himal. Jrnls., I. xi. 254. The weathered surface of each block was black.

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1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. vii. 54. The weathered ice of the surface … could be cloven with great facility.

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1879.  Encycl. Brit., X. 230/1. Practice enables a geologist to discriminate some rocks by the feel of their weathered or fresh surfaces.

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1906.  Cornish N. & Q., Ser. I. 235. A collection of weathered-out crystals of felspar.

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1914.  Moir, in Man, XIV. 180. What we have regarded as deep striæ caused by immense pressure are in all probability simply weathered out shattered scratches.

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  2.  Of a crop of grain or hay: Deteriorated by too long exposure to the elements.

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1875.  Ure’s Dict. Arts, III. 185. Weathered barley has a dull and often a dirty appearance.

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1879.  Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Weathered, damaged, but not spoilt, by too long exposure to weather—wet and bad harvesting weather: said of hay or corn.

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1892.  Daily Chron., 6 Sept., 3/5. Barley is particularly liable to become ‘weathered’ and unfit for malting.

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  3.  Arch. Made sloping, so as to prevent the lodgement of water; furnished with a weathering or water-table.

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1840.  Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl., III. 2/1. Two octagonal turrets … strengthened by massive double buttresses in three stages, the lower part terminating in weathered canopies, the middle having weathered offsets.

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1879.  Cassell’s Techn. Educ., II. 294/1. Copings are worked with … an inclined or ‘weathered’ upper surface.

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