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Definition of Rainless
1. Adjective. Lacking rain. "Rainless skies"
Definition of Rainless
1. a. Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region.
Definition of Rainless
1. Adjective. Without rain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rainless
1. having no rain [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rainless
Literary usage of Rainless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"In America the rainless region near the tropics is less distinctly marked, ...
These two belts of rainless regions, which on the land arc frequently ..."
2. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"This granitic and porphyry group lies in an almost rainless zone where the ...
The same rainless zone extends over the greater part of the central and ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"From this point a few The climate is on the whole dry and rainless for two- thirds
of the year, during which time crops are possible only by means of ..."
4. Tropical America by Isaac Nelson Ford (1893)
"IX THE rainless COAST A STUPENDOUS NATURAL PHENOMENON — THE CHILIAN ... He enters
a rainless zone without vegetation or resources for sustaining human life. ..."
5. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"rainless Regions explained, 135.—Why Australia is a Dry Country, 136.— Why
Mountains have a dry and a rainy Side, 137.—The immense Fall of Rain upon the ..."
6. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1858)
"Rainy Seasons, 187.—In Oregon, 189.—California, 191.—Panama, 193.—rainless Regions,
194.—Rainy Side of Mountains, 199. ..."
7. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"A two years' deficiency in the rice crop followed by rainless cold weather might
be taken as a warning of distress; and if, further, the early June rain ..."
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