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▪ I. raining, vbl. n.|ˈreɪnɪŋ|
[f. rain v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb.
1557Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 190 As shinyng sunne refreshe the frutes When rainyng gins to cease. 1611Bible Ecclus. xliii. 18 The heart is astonished at the raining of it [snow]. 1633P. Fletcher Elisa i. xlix, So high her eye-banks swell'd with endlesse raining. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Rain, Preternatural rains, such as the raining of stones, of dust, of blood..and the like.
▪ II. ˈraining, ppl. a. rare.
That rains, rainy.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccvii. 244 The season was sore reyning and weyt. 1647Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse T. 17 A husbandman at plow in a very raining day. 1829Amer. Jrnl. Science & Arts XV. 170 Raining Trees... There has been found in Brazil a tree the young branches of which drop water. |
