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weather-gall
Also 6, 9 Sc. -gaw, 9 -go.
[f. weather n. + gall n.2 Cf. G. wettergalle, Du. weergal; also watergall 2 and windgall.]
An imperfect rainbow, believed to be a presage of storm: = watergall 2. Sometimes applied to other appearances in the sky to which the same significance is attributed.
1613–35Markham Eng. Husb. i. i. iii. 12 If you shall see one or more Weather-galls which are like Raine-bowes, onely they arise from the Horison but a small way upward. 1621R. Brathwait Time's Curtain drawn L 7, He..taukes of Starres, and clipses of the Sun,..Of wether-gaws and many sike as these. 1694tr. Marten's Voy. Spitzbergen in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. 50 These Lights are called Weather-galls by the Sea-men. 1808Jamieson, Weddir-gaw. 1822Scott Pirate iv, See how much heavier the clouds fall every moment, and see these weather-gaws that streak the lead-coloured mass with partial gleams of faded red and purple. 1823W. Scoresby Jrnl. Whale Fish. 23 A little before sun⁓set, a weather-gall (or the limb of a rain-bow), of extraordinary brilliancy, appeared. 1824Carr Craven Gloss., Weather-gall, a secondary rain-bow. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v., A weather-gall at morn, Fine weather all gone. Ibid., Weather-go, the end of a rainbow, as seen in the morning in showery weather. 1878J. Veitch Hist. Scot. Border xiv. 515 They eyed carefully the weather-gaw, or broken bit of rainbow above the horizon. |