I. Rain (class.; cf. “imber): pluvias metuo,” Cic. Att. 15, 16: “tenues,” Verg. G. 1, 92: “in gens,” id. ib. 325: “a pluviā tueri,” Juv. 3, 202: “de pluviis loqui,” id. 4, 87: “pluviarum signa,” Sen. Q. N. 1, 9, 1: “qui aufert stillas pluviae,” Vulg. Job, 36, 27.—
II. Transf., a fall or shower of any thing (post-class.; cf. pluo); “of blossoms,” Claud. Nupt. Honor. 298: “pluvia ignea,” Aug. Quaest. in Num. 4, 27; id. Serm. 105, 7.—
III. Rain-water (post-Aug.): “admixtā pluviā,” Plin. 33, 6, 34, § 103.
