Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worn, marred, or defaced by exposure to the weather.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather.
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Examples
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A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars 'heads of the Baskervilles.
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In Hongbai, one of the scrap hunters is Mr. Zhong's cousin, a farmer with a weather-bitten face and grey slacks who asked that her name not be used.
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He has a taut, weather-bitten face and blue eyes, his movements are swift but measured, and he never uses adjectives in his everyday talk.
Archive 2005-06-19 Michael Evans 2005
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He has a taut, weather-bitten face and blue eyes, his movements are swift but measured, and he never uses adjectives in his everyday talk.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005
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And his lady, as they were able to see her at Bun Hill, was a weather-bitten goddess, as free from refinement as a gipsy — not so much dressed as packed for transit at a high velocity.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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Her bluff bows were salt-rimed and her decks bleached and weather-bitten.
The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947
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A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars 'heads of the Baskervilles.
The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926
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A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars 'heads of the Baskervilles.
The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926
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A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars 'heads of the Baskervilles.
The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926
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What this weather-bitten toiler of the sea told to Jimmie, Jimmie was prepared to understand and believe; so he learned, what he had refused to learn from prostitute newspapers, that there was a code of sea-manners and sea-morals, a law of marine decency, which for centuries had been unbroken save by pirates and savages.
Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923
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