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drizzle

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drizzle
very light rain, specifically consisting of droplets less than 0.5 mm in diameter

drizzle [′driz·əl]
(meteorology)
Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops that may appear to float while following air currents; unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground; it usually falls from low stratus clouds and is frequently accompanied by low visibility and fog.


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They could not have heard us, and the next morning when the drizzle cleared,-- which was not until past midday,--we could see nothing of them.
Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes--gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun.
But the warm fall weather passed, and on bitter nights of frost or damp nights of drizzle, the street corner was not a comfortable meeting-place.
 
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