Snow

[snəʊ] or [sno]

Definition

(noun.) English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980).

(noun.) precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals.

(noun.) a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground.

(verb.) fall as snow; 'It was snowing all night'.

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Definition

(n.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

(n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.

(n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.

(v. i.) To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.

(v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.

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Definition

n. a vessel once much in use differing only from a brig in having the boom-mainsail traversing on the trysail-mast instead of hooped to the mainmast.

n. the crystalline form into which the excess of vapour in the atmosphere is condensed when the temperature is below freezing: a snowfall: a winter: (her.) white argent.—v.i. and v.t. to fall in snow to cover with snow.—n. Snow′ball a ball made of snow pressed hard together: a shrub bearing a round white flower the guelder-rose: a round pudding of rice with an apple in the centre a mass of boiled rice shaped in a cup: white of egg beaten stiff and placed on the surface of a custard.—v.t. to throw snowballs at.—v.i. to throw snowballs.—ns. Snow′-ber′ry a bushy deciduous shrub bearing white berries; Snow′-bird a North American bird of the Finch family the upper parts lead-colour the lower parts white.—adj. Snow′-blind affected with snow-blindness.—ns. Snow′-blind′ness amblyopia caused by the reflection of light from snow; Snow′-blink a peculiar reflection arising from fields of snow like ice-blink; Snow′-boot a boot made to protect the feet while walking in snow; Snow′-box a theatrical apparatus for representing a snowfall; Snow′-break a melting of snow; Snow′-broth snow and water mixed any very cold liquid; Snow′-bunt′ing Snow′-flick a bird of the Finch family Bunting sub-family abounding in the Arctic regions.—adjs. Snow′-capped -capt covered with snow; Snow′-cold as cold as snow.—ns. Snow′-drift a bank of snow drifted together by the wind; Snow′drop a genus of plants of the natural order Amaryllis with bell-shaped flower arising from a spathe bulbous root two leaves and one single-flowered leafless stem.—ns.pl. Snow′-eyes -gogg′les an Eskimo contrivance to prevent snow-blindness.—n. Snow′fall a quiet fall of snow: the amount falling in a given time.—adj. Snow′-fed begun or increased by melted snow as a stream.—ns. Snow′field a wide range of snow esp. where permanent; Snow′-finch the stone- or mountain-finch; Snow′flake a feathery flake of snow: the snow-bunting: a bulbous-rooted garden flower resembling the snowdrop but larger; Snow′-fly a perlid insect or kind of stone-fly found leaping on the snow; Snow′-ice ice formed from freezing slush.—adv. Snow′ily.—n. Snow′iness.—adjs. Snow′ish resembling snow; Snow′less; Snow′-like; Snow′-limbed with limbs white as snow.—ns. Snow′line the line upon a mountain that marks the limit of perpetual snow; Snow′-owl the great white owl of northern regions; Snow′-plough a machine for clearing roads and railways from snow; Snow′shoe a great flat shoe worn to prevent sinking in the snow.—v.i. to walk or travel on such.—ns. Snow′-slip a mass of snow which slips down a mountain's side; Snow′storm a storm accompanied with falling snow.—adj. Snow′-white as white as snow: very white.—n. Snow′-wreath (Scot.) a snowdrift.—adj. Snow′y abounding or covered with snow: white like snow: pure.

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