rain very heavily ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

 A dock is a landing and moorage facility for watercraft ----------------------------------------------------------------------------...

  unusually or abnormally rapid or violent beating of the heart -----------------------------------------------------------------...

The covering of feathers on a bird ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time -------------------------------------------------------------------...

Short and thick; stocky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

 A disastrous or rapidly developing situation likened to the melting of a nuclear reactor core or in my case An emotional breakdown -...