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rainy, a.|ˈreɪnɪ|
Forms: 1 réniᵹ, 4–5 reyny, (4 -i, -ie), 5–6 rayny, (5 -eny, 6 raynye, -ney, Sc. rany(e), 6–7 rayn-, rainie, 6– rainy.
[f. rain n.1 + -y1. Cf. Sw. regnig.]
1. Of weather or climate: Characterized by rain.
a1000Riddles i. 10 (Gr.) Þonne hit wæs reniᵹ weder. c1380Wyclif Serm. lxxiii. Sel. Wks. I. 235 Ofte tyme, in reyny wedir, chirchis don good on halidai. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. viii. 183 In reyny and wyndy wedris. 1535Coverdale Ezra x. 13 It is a raynye wether, & they cannot stonde here without. 1604Rowlands Looke to it 26 An Almanacke..To search and finde the rainy weather out. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. vii. 214 A rainy climate. 1828J. H. Moore Pract. Navig. (ed. 20) 128 When the wind was easterly, the weather was gloomy, dark, and rainy.
2. a. Of periods of time: During or within which rain is falling, or usually falls.
In Meteorology, a rainy day is one having at least one millimetre (formerly one hundredth of an inch) of rain.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 162 Þonne bið..windiᵹ lengten & reniᵹ sumer. c1460Launfal 169 Upon a rayny day hyt befel, An huntynge wente syr Launfel. 1481Caxton Godfrey cciv. 299 The moneth of Iuyll, whiche is moche rayny customably in that countrey. 1555Eden Decades 28 The fyrst day was fayre: but all the other, clowdy & rayny. 1660T. Blount Boscobel 40 The night was very dark and rainy. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. iv, The rainy season came on. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 60 An unproductive year mostly succeeds a rainy winter. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xviii. 207 Monday and Tuesday were rainy days.
b. fig. a rainy day: a time of need.
c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears iii. ii. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. (1897) 23 Wold he haue me kepe nothyng agaynst a raynye day? 1677A. Yarranton Eng. Impr. 115 In the Time of Plenty, they lay up for a Rainy-day. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 300 It behoves us to provide against a rainy day while the sun shines. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. III. viii. vi. 53 The massive silver did prove a hoard available, in after times, against a rainy day.
c. rainy season: in certain, esp. tropical, regions, an annually recurring season of heavy rain (in Meteorol., of at least one month's duration).
1720Defoe Capt. Singleton 135 We could not expect to reach it till an other rainy Season would be upon us. 1817S. R. Brown Western Gazetteer 13 The rainy season..commences after midsummer. 1872R. G. McClellan Golden State xxii. 294 December..and the succeeding months until May are termed winter, or the ‘rainy season’, in California. 1910,1922[see bai-u]. 1977‘J. Le Carré’ Hon. Schoolboy xvii. 410 ‘This [tarmac road is] where he lands?’ ‘Only in the rainy season.’
3. a. Of places: In which it rains or is raining; where rain is frequent; subject to rain.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 333 Þe lond is nesche, reyny, and wyndy. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 437 Southward to the Rainy Regions. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 1 The north western provinces are more rainy than Devonshire. 1885R. L. & F. Stevenson Dynamiter vi. 91, I wandered bedless in the rainy streets.
b. Of an action: Done in the rain. rare—1.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. iii. 111 Besmyrcht With raynie Marching in the painefull field.
4. a. Of clouds, mist, etc.: Bringing rain; laden with rain; of the nature of rain; connected with rain. † rainy bow, the rainbow.
1390Gower Conf. I. 65 The colour of the reyni Mone With medicine upon his face He set. Ibid. 312 The reyni Storm fell doun algates. 1513Douglas æneis vii. Prol. 27 Rany Orioune wyth his stormy face. 1563Mirr. Mag., Lord Hastings ii. 108 As beastes forshew the drought or rayny dropps. 1604Jas. I Counterbl. (Arb.) 104 The raynie cloudes are often transformed and euaporated in blustering winds. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 56/2 The seas we may not plow, Ropes make of the rainy bow. 1818Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. 217 As rainy wind [sweeps] through the abandoned gate. 1876Gibbon Robin Gray iv, A white rainy mist lowered upon the water.
b. fig. of the eyes: Shedding tears; tearful.
1563Mirr. Mag., Compl. Dk. Buck. xcvii, With rainy eine and sighes cannot be told. 1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Ecl. iv. 1 Why drop thy rainie eyes? 1774J. Adams Diary 5 Mar. Wks. 1850 II. 332 A pathetic..performance. A vast crowd, rainy eyes, &c. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiii. 48 O'er the waste of ocean with a rainy eye he gazed.
5. rainy-shimmery, rainy-sounding, rainy-wet adjs.
1930J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 27 Through the rail of the bridge we can look way down into the cold rainy shimmery water.
1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xxvi. 37 Overhead the aspen heaves Its rainy-sounding silver leaves.
1952R. Campbell tr. Baudelaire's Poems 70 There the suns, rainy-wet, Through clouds rise and set. |