Where today are the Pequot Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. 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. Snow′y, abounding or covered with snow: white, like snow: pure. Snow′-wreath ( Scot.), a snowdrift.- adj. Snow′-white, as white as snow: very white.- n. Snow′-slip, a mass of snow which slips down a mountain's side Snow′storm, a storm accompanied with falling snow.- adj. 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. Snow′ish, resembling snow Snow′less Snow′-like Snow′-limbed, with limbs white as snow.- ns. 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′-fed, begun or increased by melted snow, as a stream.- ns. Snow′fall, a quiet fall of snow: the amount falling in a given time.- adj. Snow′-eyes, -gogg′les, an Eskimo contrivance to prevent snow-blindness.- n. 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′-capped, -capt, covered with snow Snow′-cold, as cold as snow.- 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′-blind, affected with snow-blindness.- 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′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. 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. To scatter like snow to cover with, or as with, snowĬhambers 20th Century Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: To fall in or as snow - chiefly used impersonally as, it snows it snowed yesterday 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 formsįig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry something which falls in, or as in, flakes Webster Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Ī 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 hoistedĮtymology: To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information. We have had several heavy snows this year. The area of frequency on a television which has no programmes broadcast in analogue sets, the image is created by the Electrical noise.Ī snowfall a blanket of frozen, crystalline water. Also, from the same Indo-European root comes English snew.Īny similar frozen form of a gas or liquid Cognate with snaw, snie, Dutch sneeuw, German Schnee, Danish sne, Norwegian snø, Swedish snö, snjór, nix, Russian. The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.Įtymology: From snow, snaw, from snaw, from snaiwaz, from snóygʷʰos. Wiktionary (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition:
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