[f. WEATHERLY a. + -NESS.] Weatherly quality (of a ship).
1883. Dixon Kemp, in Fortn. Rev., 1 Sept., 324. The Mosquito … carried her ballast much lower than any existing yacht. This … was a principal cause of her weatherliness.
1893. Mahan, Infl. Sea Power, I. 223. The superior speed and weatherliness of the Spanish ships might have enabled them seriously to molest the British.
