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  • verb Present participle of rain.

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  • adjective falling in drops or as if falling like rain

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  • "That night was wonderful. I remember it was crisp, cold, clear, starlit, that's if I remember: if not, it was raining."

    - Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.'

    April 19, 2009