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

Having an active or vigorous mind. [Colloq.]

Resembling grains; granular.

Belonging to train oil. [Obs.] Gay.

osphere; a meteorite; an aërolite. -- Falling tide, the ebb tide. -- Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] Bartlett.

avorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc. So foul a sky clears not without a storm. Shak.

A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.

the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun. Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyaned Vext the dim sea. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions.

nd when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food.

to appear; to have a particular appearance; as, the patient looks better; the clouds look rainy. It would look more like vanity than gratitude. Addison. Observe how such a practice looks in another person. I. Watts.

Of or pertaining to rain; rainy. [R.]

Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial. Sir T. Browne.

The state of being rainy.

er, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy. The several seasons of the year in their beauty. Addison.

Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. "Spongy April." Shak.

ne through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.

Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. "Wet October's torrent flood." Milton.

A watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy, or misty; as, the wetness of weather or the season.