Rain

[reɪn]

Definition

(noun.) anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; 'a rain of bullets'; 'a pelting of insults'.

(noun.) water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.

(noun.) drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds.

(verb.) precipitate as rain; 'If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding'.

Typist: Merritt--From WordNet

Definition

(n. & v.) Reign.

(n.) Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops.

(n.) To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains.

(n.) To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes.

(v. t.) To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds.

(v. t.) To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.

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Definition

n. water from the clouds in drops: a shower: a fall of any substance through the atmosphere in the manner of rain.—v.i. to fall from the clouds: to drop like rain.—v.t. to pour like rain.—ns. Rain′band a dark band in the solar spectrum; Rain′-bird a bird like the Rain′-crow supposed to foretell rain by its cries and actions; Rain′bow the brilliant-coloured bow or arch seen when rain is falling opposite the sun called lunar rainbow when formed by the moon; Rain′bow-dart′er the soldier-fish.—adjs. Rain′bowed formed with or like a rainbow; Rain′bow-tint′ed having tints like those of a rainbow: iridescent.—ns. Rain′bow-trout a variety of the Californian salmon; Rain′-cham′ber an attachment to a furnace in which the fumes of any metal are condensed; Rain′-chart -map a chart giving information as to the distribution of rain in any part of the world; Rain′-cloud a cloud in meteorology called nimbus; Rain′drop a drop of rain; Rain′fall a fall of rain: the amount of water that falls in a given time in the form of rain; Rain′-gauge an instrument for measuring the quantity of rain that falls; Rain′iness the state of being rainy.—adj. Rain′less without rain.—ns. Rain′-mak′er -doc′tor a sorcerer as those of Africa professing to bring rain; Rain′-pour a heavy rainfall; Rain′-print one of the small pits seen on the surfaces of some argillaceous rocks and believed to be the impressions of raindrops.—adjs. Rain′-proof -tight impervious to rain.—ns. Rain′storm; Rain′-tree the genisaro of South America; Rain′-wa′ter water which falls in rain from the clouds.—adj. Rain′y abounding with rain: showery.—Rain cats and dogs (see Cat).—A rainy day (fig.) a time of need or hardship: future want or need; The former and the latter rain Palestine the rain in spring and in autumn: rain in its season.

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