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Definition of Rain cloud
1. Noun. A dark grey cloud bearing rain.
Definition of Rain cloud
1. Noun. A cloud from which rain is falling. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rain Cloud
Literary usage of Rain cloud
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Yoga-system of Patañjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man : an Interpretation by Patañjali, Vyāsa, Vācaspatimiśra (1914)
"The objector says ‘We may admit the existence of this Rain-cloud of [knowable]
things, ... As a result of the rise [into consciousness] of the Rain-cloud of ..."
2. The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected by John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1859)
"The upper clouds are distinct and compara. tively opaque, they do not modify,
but conceal; but through the rain-cloud, and its accessory phenomena, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"When a rain-cloud is seen at a distance, cirri appear to shoot out from its top
in all directions; and it is observed that the more copious the rainfall the ..."
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