rain
/ɹeɪn/ noun A1- Condensed water falling from a cloud. · We've been having a lot of rain lately.· The rains came late that year.
- Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
- An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air. · A rain of mortar fire fell on our trenches.
Plural rains
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And the rain-pools are the seas,
At one o’clock it began to rain, and I met Harry Murcher—him who has the Holland Grove beat—and we stood together at the corner of Henrietta Street a-talkin’.
Now, up to last night, we have had no rain for a week, so that those wheels which left such a deep impression must have been there during the night.
Since the cab was there after the rain began, and was not there at any time during the morning—I have Gregson’s word for that—it follows that it must have been there during the night, and, therefore, that it brought those two individuals to the house.”
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