rainfowl (ranfoul)

[ [Eng.] -2. The Australian Scythrops nova holland iæ . rain-gage (ran'gāj), n . An instrument for collecting and measuring the amount of rainfall at a given place. Many forms have been used; their size has been a few square inches or square feet in area, and their material has been sheet-metal, porcelain, wood, or gla . The form adopted by the United States Signal Service consists of three parts-( a ) a funnel-shaped receiver, having a turned bra rim 8 inches in diameter: (b) a collecting tube, made of seamle bra tubing of 2.53 inches inside diameter, making its area one tenth that of the receiving surface; and (c) a galvanized iron overflow cylinder, which in time of snow is used alone as a snow. gage. A cedar measuring-stick is used to measure the depth of water collected in the gage. By reason of the ratio between the area of the collecting tube and that of the receiving surface, the depth of rain is one tenth that measured on the stick. See cut under pluviometer . rain-goose (ran'gös), n. The red-throated diver or loon, Urinator or Colymbus septentrional is, supposed to foretell rain by its cry. [Local, British.] rain-houndt (ran'hound), n. hound. See the quotation. A variety of the Mastiffs are often mentioned in the proceedings at the Forest Courts [in England), in company with other breeds which it is not easy now to identify, such as the rain hound, which keeps watch by itself in rainy weather. The Academy , Feb. 4, 1888, p. 71. rainine (rā'ni-nes), n. [ rainy + -ne .] The state of being rainy.