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7. water-gage (water-gāj), n. 1. Any device for indicating the height of water in a reservoir, tank, boiler, or other ve el. The most common form is a gla tube placed on the front of a boiler, and connected at the top with a pipe opening into the steam-space above the water and below with a pipe open ing into the water in the boiler. The water and steam fill the tube and indicate the height of the water in the boiler. See gage - cock . Also called IMG:content-2120.png:[blocks in formation] water-gall (water-gâl), n. [Also dial. water-geal, water- gull ; = G. wa er - galle , a cav- ity in the earth made by a torrent, a bog, quagmire, wa er , water, + galle , seen also in G. regen - galle , an im- perfect rainbow, end or frag-span i cat ing with sterk ment of a rainbow, an oxeye, communicating with water-gall, weather-gall, apc, water-line. par. in orig. like Icel. gall i , a defect, flaw, hence a barren spot: see gall2.] 1. A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water. Imp . Dict .-2. An appearance in the sky regarded as presaging the approach of rain; a rainbow-colored spot; an imperfectly formed or a secondary rainbow. Also called weather-gall. And round about her tear-distained eye Blue circles stream'd, like rainbows in the sky; These water - galls in her dim element Foretell new storms. Shak ., Lucrece, 1. 1588. Their reason is but a low, obscure, and imperfect shadow thereof, as the water - gall is of the rain-bow. Sir M. Hale , Orig. of Mankind, p. 50. I am told a second rainbow above the first is called in the Isle of Wight a water geal .