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Definition of Fogbows
1. fogbow [n] - See also: fogbow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fogbows
Literary usage of Fogbows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Johnson's Natural Philosophy, and Key to Philosophical Charts: Illustrated by Frank Grant Johnson (1872)
"fogbows differ from rainbows by the minuteness of the globules of water from
which the reflection takes place. Halos are prismatic rings seen around the sun ..."
2. American Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Phenomena of the Weather by Adolphus Washington Greely (1888)
"fogbows and lunar rainbows are similar phenomena, but of rarer occurrence.
The observer of a rainbow well knows that he is always situated exactly on a line ..."
3. Frost and Fire: Natural Engines, Tool-marks and Chips, with Sketches Taken by John Francis Campbell (1865)
"There it shone from windows and tiles ; it glittered from dewdrops, and made
fogbows and rainbows in the mist. It seemed to come from every direction ..."
4. Instructions to Observers of the Indian Meteorological Department by India Meteorological Dept, John Eliot (1902)
"Other optical phenomena of interest, as such, are rainbows, fogbows or anthelia,
mirage, etc., and the beautiful opal fringes of clouds (that is clouds the ..."
5. Elementary Meteorology by Robert Henry Scott (1893)
"... 120; Aitken's theory, 120; density of, in Newfoundland, 120; in Spitsbergen,
122; sea, 122; entry of, in journals, 129 fogbows (fog-eaters), ..."
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