Rainless meaning

of the Himalaya is almost rainless, 6 or 8 in.

The greater part is within the almost rainless zone.

This increase was not due to famine in Sind, for that rainless province depends always on the Indus, as Egypt does on the Nile, and where there is no rainfall there can be no drought.

- From October to May the weather is almost rainless except in the mountains, where there are nightly showers and heavy mists.

Formerly wheat was grown chiefly in the region of long rainless summers, and the ripened grain was thrown upon uncovered earth floors and threshed by horses driven about over the straw, but this antiquated process was not suited to the climate and enterprise of the more southern provinces, and the modern threshing-machine has been introduced.