raiment, rayment

[An abbreviation of Mid. Eng. arraiment or aruiment; cf. O. Fr. arrée. ment =good array, order, equipage. ( Cotgrave.)] [ARRAIMENT.] Dre or clothing in general; gar. ments, vestments, vesture, clothes. ( Matt. vi. 25.) rai-mond-ite, subst. [After Dr. Raimondi, of Bolivia; suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min .: A mineral found in thin, hexagonal tables; with replaced basal edges. Cleavage, basal; hard. ne , 3-3-25; specific gravity, 3-19-3-22; luster, pearly; color, honey to ocher-yellow; v; streak, ocher-yellow; opaque. Composition: Sulphuric acid, 35'0; sesquioxide of iron, 46.6; water, 184=100, which corre sponds to the formula SOHO in scales on ca iterite at the tin mines of Ehren. friedersdorf, Saxony. IMG:content-0180.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0181.png:[blocks in formation] *2. To weep, to shed tears. 3. To be showered thickly; to fall thickly like rain. ( Pope : Homer's Iliad , xii. 312.) B. Trans.: To pour or shower down like rain from the clouds; to pour down in abundance. ( Exodus xvi. 4.) rain, *raine (1), *rayne (1), *reghn, *rein, *reine, *ren, *rene, *reyne, s . [A. S. regn, rén; cogn. with Dut. regen ; Ital., Dan. & Sw. regn ; Ger.. regen; Goth. rign. For the lo of g cf. rail (3), s.. hail, .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Lit .: In the same sense as II. 1. *2. Fig.: A shower or pouring down of anything. II. Technically: 1. Meteor .: The fall of water in drops from the clouds, or the drops which fall. A cloud consists of aqueous vapor, the individual vesicles of which are very small. When by the constant condensation of fresh aqueous vapor these vesicles become large and heavy, and several of them unite, they are unable to resist the action of gravity and fall as rain. 2. Geology: The direct action of rain, as distinguished from its indirect one in creating streams, rivers, ., is a potent aqueous cause. In many places, however, its effect is much diminished by the protective influence over the soil exerted by the vegetation ( Lyell : Princ., ch. xlv.) Penetrating into crevices of rocks, it is frozen and splits them. [ICE.] Moreover, in pa ing through the atmos. phere, it absorbs a considerable amount of carbon dioxide, which enables it to transform the carbonate of lime in limestone rocks into the soluble bicarbonate, and ultimately waste them away; it acts also on felspar, . rain-band, s. Physics: A darkening of the solar spectrum, in the neighborhood of the D (sodium) line, caused by the presence of watery vapor in the atmosphere. *rain-beat, adj . Beaten by the rain; weather beaten. ( Bp . Hall : Satires , iv. 3.) rain-bird, s. Ornith.: A name given somewhat indiscriminately to two cuckoos in Jamaica: (1) Sau rother a ( Cucu lus , Linn.) vetula , a large handsome bird, soft. brown-gray on the back, dullish yellow on the under surface, and rusty-red on the wings, with the long tail showily barred with black and white. It feeds on animal substances. Go e says ( Birds of Ja maica , p. 275), "I have found in various individuals, locusts, Phasmata, spiders, Phryni, a whole mouse, caterpillars, ." It is sometimes also called Tom Fool, from its silly habit of gratifying its curiosity instead of securing its safety. (2) Сиси lus pluvial is ; head dark gray, merging on the neck into dark grayish-green, the hue of the back, rump, and wings, with metallic glo . Tail feathers black, barred with white; throat and breast white; remaining under parts deep red-brown. rain-bow, s . [RAINBOW.] rain-chamber, s. Metall.: In the extraction of copper, a compart ment into which spray is injected, and through which the smoke is compelled to pa , to remove poisonous vapors. It was proposed by Sir Humphry Davy. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f.