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Webster 1913 Edition


Water gall

Wa′ter gallˊ

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1.
A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
2.
A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow.
These
water galls
, in her dim element,
Foretell new storms to those already spent.
Shakespeare
False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the
water gall
by the rainbow.
Walpole.