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Water gall

Wa"ter gall`\ 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. --Shak.

False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow. --Walpole.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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