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Definition of Rain out
1. Verb. Prevent or interrupt due to rain. "The storm had washed out the game"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rain Out
Literary usage of Rain out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Companion by Leigh Hunt (1828)
"rain out OF A CLEAR SKY. IN a work ' De Varia Historia,' written after the manner
... for that a sky should be clear, and yet the rain out of it plentiful, ..."
2. The Companion by Leigh Hunt (1828)
"rain out OF A CLEAR SKY. IN a work ' De Varia Historia,' written after the manner
... for that a sky should be clear, and yet the rain out of it plentiful, ..."
3. The Companion by Leigh Hunt (1828)
"rain out OF A CLEAR, SKY. ••-,, IN a work ' De Varia Historia,' written after the
... for that a sky should be clear, and yet the rain out of it plentiful, ..."
4. The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side by Leigh Hunt (1835)
"... like other conquerors, into retirement; and only the lustre of their glory
remains, such as Bonaparte might have envied. VI.—rain out OF A CLEAR SKY. ..."
5. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1867)
"... and go in to Captain Sahib, and rain out of her eyes, and say, ' Massa too
good—husband dead ... and rain out of him eyes ; very sore in him breast many ..."
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