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T. Adams, Works, III. 119. We were forced to eat with great precipitation, having received advice of General Carpenter's march as we were at dinner. Add is on, Freeholder, No. 3. Precipitation, incited by the pride of intellectual superiority, is very fatal to great designs. Johnson, Rambler, No. 43. 4. In chem ., the proce by which any substance is made to separate from another or others in solution, and fall to the bottom.-5. Moisture from the atmosphere deposited on the earth's surface, including dew, mist, rain, frost, snow, sleet, hail, etc. It [visibility] is no doubt, to some extent, the effect of previous rains, the precipitation having washed the atmosphere of its dust.