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Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops. Rain is water by the heat of the sun divided into very small parts ascending in the air, till, encountering the cold, it be condensed into clouds, and descends in drops. Ray. Fair days have oft contracted wind and rain. Milton.…

So tight as to exclude rain as, a rain-tight roof.

pposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.

Formed with or like a rainbow.

See Reindeer. [Obs.]

A drop of rain.

A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh. Hooker.

The state of being rainy.

Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region.

Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy day or season.

A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [Colloq.]

Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.

A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion.

A train of artillery for siege operations.

To rain upon; to wet with rain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.

Supplied with brains. If th' other two be brained like us. Shak.

Hot-headed; furious. [R.] Shak.

Without understanding; silly; thougthless; witless. -- Brain"less*ness, n.

The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.