Climate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To Dwell.

II. Climate ·vi The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, ·etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.

III. Climate ·vi One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.

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