One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church.
A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.
In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant.
One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.
To act as a weathercock for.
To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.
To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.