Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
rain .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Rain or rein.
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- noun Obsolete form of
rain . - noun Obsolete form of
rein .
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Examples
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Al night, 'quod he, ` hath reyn so do me wake, 1560
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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Compare Chaucer's use of it: 'Men seyn that thre thynges dryven a man out of his hous, -- that is to seyn, smoke, droppyng of reyn and wikked wyves.'
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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Wel wiste he, by the droghte, and by the reyn, 595
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"I jist fin 'mysel' like a horse wi 'a reyn brocken, gaein' by mysel 'throu' the air this gait."
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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This same yere [113] fro the begynnyng of April into Halwemasse was so gret abundance of reyn, where thorugh nought only hey was distroied, but also moche corn, for it reyned almost every other day more or lasse.
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Tak the Venisoun that ys rest and do yt in cold water and after mak an hole in the herthe and lat yt be thereyn thre dayes and thre nyzt and after tak yt up and spot yt wel wyth gret salt of peite [2] there were the restyng ys and after lat yt hange in reyn water al nyzt or more.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Also this same yere on a Fryday, that is for to seye the xij day of August, aboughte iij of the belle at afternoon, there fill a sodeyn thondyr clap with a gret reyn and a lyghtnynge, the whiche lyghtnynge entred in at a wynde and distroyd moche hey which was stuffed in a gret hous at the Sterre in Bredstrete; and the remenaunt of the hey was cast out and had in to Chepe, the quantyte of
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1398: A Drench for sur-reyn'd Iades, their Barly broth,
fbharjo commented on the word reyn
alternative spelling of rain
December 2, 2008