"A rainbow towards night,
Fair weather in sight.
Rainbow at night,
Sailor's delight;
Rainbow in morning,
Sailors, take warning."
·noun A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Caused by the reflection and refraction of the rays of the sun shining on falling rain. It was appoi...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Knight of the rainbow; a footman: from being commonly clothed in garments of different colours. A me...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
the token of the covenant which God made with Noah when he came forth from the ark that the waters s...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Near the Temple, 1649 (L. and P. Commonw. 1. 1547). It seems to be named after the famous Rainbow T...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
n. a New Zealand fish, Heteroscharus castelnaui, Macl. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
East out of Aldersgate Street in Aldersgate Ward Without, south of Maidenhead Court (Elmes, 1831). ...
A footman: from the variety of colours in the liveries and trimming of gentlemen of that cloth. ...