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 Trap·door n.
 1. Arch. A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
 2. Mining A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door.
 Trapdoor spider Zool., any one of several species of large spiders which make a nest consisting of a vertical hole in the earth, lined with a hinged lid, like a trapdoor. Most of the species belong to the genus Cteniza, as the California species (Cteniza Californica).
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 Weath·er n.
 1. The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.
    Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.   --Shak.
    Fair weather cometh out of the north.   --Job xxxvii. 22.
 2. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.
 3. Storm; tempest.
 What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud
 My thoughts presage!   --Dryden.
 4. A light rain; a shower.  [Obs.]
 Stress of weather, violent winds; force of tempests.
 To make fair weather, to flatter; to give flattering representations. [R.]
 To make good weather, or To make bad weather Naut., to endure a gale well or ill; -- said of a vessel. --Shak.
 Under the weather, ill; also, financially embarrassed. [Colloq. U. S.] --Bartlett.
 Weather box. Same as Weather house, below. --Thackeray.
 Weather breeder, a fine day which is supposed to presage foul weather.
 Weather bureau, a popular name for the signal service.  See Signal service, under Signal, a. [U. S.]
 Weather cloth Naut., a long piece of canvas of tarpaulin used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather when stowed in the nettings.
 Weather door. Mining See Trapdoor, 2.
 Weather gall. Same as Water gall, 2. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
 Weather house, a mechanical contrivance in the form of a house, which indicates changes in atmospheric conditions by the appearance or retirement of toy images.
 Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought
 Devised the weather house, that useful toy!   --Cowper.
 -- Weather molding, or Weather moulding Arch., a canopy or cornice over a door or a window, to throw off the rain.
 Weather of a windmill sail, the obliquity of the sail, or the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution.
 Weather report, a daily report of meteorological observations, and of probable changes in the weather; esp., one published by government authority.
 Weather spy, a stargazer; one who foretells the weather. [R.] --Donne.
 Weather strip Arch., a strip of wood, rubber, or other material, applied to an outer door or window so as to cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc.