Drizzle
['drɪz(ə)l] or ['drɪzl]
Definition
(noun.) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower.
(verb.) moisten with fine drops; 'drizzle the meat with melted butter'.
(verb.) rain lightly; 'When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant'.
Checker: Rudolph--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
(v. t.) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
(n.) Fine rain or mist.
Typist: Rex
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Rain (in small drops), mizzle.
Editor: Vlad
Definition
v.i. to rain in small drops.—v.t. (Shak.) to shed in small drops.—n. a small light rain.—adj. Drizz′ly.
Typist: Ora
Examples
- Then he turned to pursue his way homeward through the drizzle that had so greatly transformed the scene. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The lamp above was lit; it rained a November drizzle, as it had rained all day: the lamplight gleamed on the wet pavement. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Before daylight it started to drizzle. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The moon was supposed to rise but there was a mist over the town and it did not come up and in a little while it started to drizzle and we came in. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We reached Louisville after night and, if I remember rightly, in a cold, drizzling rain. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the Saturday it rained, a soft drizzling rain that held off at times. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The day had clouded over, and a drizzling rain set in at sunset. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To-night the watering-pot might rest in its niche by the well: a small rain had been drizzling all the afternoon, and still it fell fast and quietly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We have noted how the Keltic peoples drizzled westward, how the Italians, the Greeks, and their Epirote, Macedonian, and Phrygian kindred came south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It drizzled a little, shone a little, blew a little, and didn't make up its mind till it was too late for anyone else to make up theirs. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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