| 单词 |
rain-drop |
| 释义 |
ˈraindrop, rain-drop
[OE. reᵹndropa = OHG. regentropho (G. -tropfen), MSw. rägndropi (Sw. regndroppe): see rain n.1 and drop n.]
1. A single drop of rain.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 278 Haᵹol cymð of ðam ren⁓dropum þonne hi beoð ᵹefrorene up on ðære lyfte. [c1290S. Eng. Leg. 442/380 Þare þis holie man stod Ne fel neuere a reynes drope.] c1400Solomon's Bk. Wisdom 11 Who schulde þe rein-dropes telle. 1560Pilkington Expos. Aggeus 180 The teares like rayn droppes come tricklinge doune his cheekes. 1698J. Keill Exam. Th. Earth (1734) 163 We must not imagine, that rain drops have the same form and density in the Clouds with which they arrive at the ground. 1805Wordsw. Waggoner i. 156 Large rain-drops on his head Fell. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. x. 65 The rounded rain-drops had solidified during their descent.
attrib.1860G. H. K. in Vac. Tour 117 Sprinkling sweet odours and sparkling raindrop gems. 1879Dana Geol. (ed. 3) 84 Rill-marks, mud-cracks, and rain-drop impressions.
2. The dropping of rain or rain-water. rare.
a1400Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxiv. 108 Of reste he is vr tabernacle To schilde vs from reyn-drope. 1880Muirhead Gaius ii. §14 a, Urban servitudes are..the rights of roof-gutter and rain-drop. |
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