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WATER-GALL

Specialty Definition: WATER-GALL

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Water-gall The dark rim round the eyes after much weeping. A peculiar appearance in a rainbow which indicates more rain at hand. "Gall" is the Anglo-Saxon gealew (yellow).
"And round about her tear-distainëd eye
Blue circles streamed, like rainbows in the sky;
These watergalls ... foretell new storms."
Shakespeare: Rape of Lucrecs. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: WATER-GALL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-l-l-r-t-w"

-2 letters: gallate, galleta, lateral, tallage.

-3 letters: aglare, alegar, gallet, laager, taller, tergal, wallet.

-4 letters: agate, aglet, alate, alert, algae, algal, altar, alter, areal, argal, argle, artal, artel, aware, galea, glare, graal, grate, great, lager, large, later, legal, ratal, ratel, reata, regal, retag, talar, taler, targe, tawer, terga, trawl, wager, waler, walla, water.

-5 letters: agar, ager.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: WATER-GALL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 41 54 45 52 2D 47 41 4C 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010010 00101101 01000111 01000001 01001100 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#45 &#71 &#65 &#76 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 0054 0045 0052 002D 0047 0041 004C 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57355439521541354646

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