civil

Nfld

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

of weather, fair or good.

Quotations

1905

It was a mere puff on a "civil" evening--but a swift, wicked little puff, sweeping round Breakheart Head. . . .

1907

"No, I think it's goin' to be civil," argued Frank. . . .

1944

[Caption] On a "civil" day in October, Baxter John and his boys arrive . . . to sell their dried fish.