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Definition of Rainy
1. Adjective. (of weather) wet by periods of rain. "Rainy days"
Definition of Rainy
1. a. Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.
Definition of Rainy
1. Adjective. Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rainy
1. marked by rain [adj RAINIER, RAINIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rainy
Literary usage of Rainy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"From these we learn that St Swithin's Day was wet in 1841, and there were 23
rainy days up to the 24th of August ; 1845, 26 rainy days ; 1851, 13 rainy days ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"It appears that St. Swithin's day was wet in 1841, and there were 23 rainy days
up to the 24th of August ; 1845, 26 rainy days; 1851, 13 rainy days: 1853, ..."
3. Report on the Exploration of the Country Between Lake Superior and the Red by Canada Provincial Secretary's Office, Henry Youle Hind, George Gladman (1858)
"Dr. Bigsby, on the geology of rainy Lake ; bis divisions of rainy Lake, 198.
rainy River.—Debris of silurian limestone in the valley of rainy River, ..."
4. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1897)
"A CANOE TRIP TO rainy LAKE. HARRY SILVER. Gold-bearing quartz was discovered in
Northern .Minnesota in the summer of 1893, though it was really known to a ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In Southern Africa that rainy season which follows the apparent movement of the
sun northward, is. greater than that which ensues after his passage south, ..."
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