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Rainbow

A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.

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Arc 76% connected

A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse.

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Bow 76% connected

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

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Hope 76% connected

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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Promise 76% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Sky 70% connected

A cloud.

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