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Definition of Raining

1. Adjective. Falling in drops or as if falling like rain. "Watched the raining apple blossoms"

Definition of Raining

1. Verb. (present participle of rain) ¹

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Definition of Raining

1. rain [v] - See also: rain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Raining

Literary usage of Raining

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elson Primary School Reader by William Harris Elson (1913)
"raining —Lucy Larcom. It isn't raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills; The clouds of gray engulf ..."

2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"... as you will see going through, he gives the days and dates and particulars of the days, telling you how hard it was raining at this particular time, ..."

3. Essential Studies in English by Carolyn M. Robbins, Robert Keable Row (1907)
"STUDY 43 Literature and Composition raining It isn't raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills; ..."

4. Century Readings for a Course in English Literature by John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young (1921)
"raining The night I left my father said: ' You '11 go and do some stupid thing. You 've no more sense in that fat head Than Silly Billy Witterung. ..."

5. New Collection Methods: A Systematic Treatment of the Place of Collections by Edward Hall Gardner (1918)
"Please paste the enclosed sticker at the head of your letter and then it will come directly to my desk." "raining in Southern Illinois" "One of the young ..."

6. New Collection Methods: A Systematic Treatment of the Place of Collections by Edward Hall Gardner (1918)
""raining in Southern Illinois" "One of the young men in my office hasn't enough imagination or sympathy. He writes down a severe letter to a merchant who ..."

7. A Book of Verse of the Great War by William Reginald Wheeler (1917)
"And now I'm lying hi the trench And shells and bullets through the night Are raining in a steady drench, I'm thinking the old man was right. ..."

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