RAIN-CLOUD. See [Nimbus].
RAINS. Belts or zones of calms, where heavy rain prevails; they exist between the north-east and south-east trade-winds, changing their latitude several degrees, depending on the sun's declination. In India "the rains" come in with the S.W. monsoon.
RAISE, To. To make an object subtend a larger angle by approaching it, which is the foundation of perspective, and an effect increased by the sphericity of our globe: the opposite of [laying] (which see).
RAISE A SIEGE, To. To abandon or cause the abandonment of a siege.
RAISED UPON. When a vessel is heightened in her upper works.
RAISE-NET. A kind of staked net on our northern shores, so called from rising and falling with the tide.
RAISE OR RISE TACKS AND SHEETS. The lifting the clues of the courses, previously to bracing round the yards in tacking or wearing.
RAISE THE METAL To. To elevate the breech, and depress thereby the muzzle of a gun.
RAISE THE WIND, To. To make an exertion; to cast about for funds.
RAISING A MOUSE. The process of making a lump on a stay. (See [Mouse].)