snow
    n 1: precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice
         crystals [syn: snow, snowfall]
    2: a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water)
       covering the ground
    3: English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe
       (1905-1980) [syn: Snow, C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow,
       Baron Snow of Leicester]
    4: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy,
       snow, C]
    v 1: fall as snow; "It was snowing all night"
    2: conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately
       feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled
       his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
       [syn: bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over
       someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false]

Snow \Snow\, n. [LG. snaue, or D. snaauw, from LG. snau a snout,
   a beak.] (Naut.)
   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.
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Snow \Snow\, n. [OE. snow, snaw, AS. sn[=a]w; akin to D. sneeuw,
   OS. & OHG. sn[=e]o, G. schnee, Icel. sn[ae]r, snj[=o]r,
   snaj[=a]r, Sw. sn["o], Dan. snee, Goth. snaiws, Lith.
   sn["e]gas, Russ. snieg', Ir. & Gael. sneachd, W. nyf, L. nix,
   nivis, Gr. acc. ni`fa, also AS. sn[imac]wan to snow, G.
   schneien, OHG. sn[imac]wan, Lith. snigti, L. ningit it snows,
   Gr. ni`fei, Zend snizh to snow; cf. Skr. snih to be wet or
   sticky. [root]172.]
   1. 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.
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   Note: Snow is often used to form compounds, most of which are
         of obvious meaning; as, snow-capped, snow-clad,
         snow-cold, snow-crowned, snow-crust, snow-fed,
         snow-haired, snowlike, snow-mantled, snow-nodding,
         snow-wrought, and the like.
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   2. Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color
      (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in,
      flakes.
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            The field of snow with eagle of black therein.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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   Red snow. See under Red.
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   Snow bunting. (Zool.) See Snowbird, 1.

   Snow cock (Zool.), the snow pheasant.

   Snow flea (Zool.), a small black leaping poduran
      (Achorutes nivicola) often found in winter on the snow
      in vast numbers.

   Snow flood, a flood from melted snow.

   Snow flower (Bot.), the fringe tree.

   Snow fly, or Snow insect (Zool.), any one of several
      species of neuropterous insects of the genus Boreus. The
      male has rudimentary wings; the female is wingless. These
      insects sometimes appear creeping and leaping on the snow
      in great numbers.

   Snow gnat (Zool.), any wingless dipterous insect of the
      genus Chionea found running on snow in winter.

   Snow goose (Zool.), any one of several species of arctic
      geese of the genus Chen. The common snow goose (Chen
      hyperborea), common in the Western United States in
      winter, is white, with the tips of the wings black and
      legs and bill red. Called also white brant, wavey, and
      Texas goose. The blue, or blue-winged, snow goose (Chen
      coerulescens) is varied with grayish brown and bluish
      gray, with the wing quills black and the head and upper
      part of the neck white. Called also white head,
      white-headed goose, and bald brant.

   Snow leopard (Zool.), the ounce.

   Snow line, lowest limit of perpetual snow. In the Alps this
      is at an altitude of 9,000 feet, in the Andes, at the
      equator, 16,000 feet.

   Snow mouse (Zool.), a European vole (Arvicola nivalis)
      which inhabits the Alps and other high mountains.

   Snow pheasant (Zool.), any one of several species of large,
      handsome gallinaceous birds of the genus Tetraogallus,
      native of the lofty mountains of Asia. The Himalayn snow
      pheasant (Tetraogallus Himalayensis) in the best-known
      species. Called also snow cock, and snow chukor.

   Snow partridge. (Zool.) See under Partridge.

   Snow pigeon (Zool.), a pigeon (Columba leuconota) native
      of the Himalaya mountains. Its back, neck, and rump are
      white, the top of the head and the ear coverts are black.
      

   Snow plant (Bot.), a fleshy parasitic herb (Sarcodes
      sanguinea) growing in the coniferous forests of
      California. It is all of a bright red color, and is fabled
      to grow from the snow, through which it sometimes shoots
      up.
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Snow \Snow\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Snowed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Snowing.]
   To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it
   snows; it snowed yesterday.
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Snow \Snow\, v. t.
   To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.
   --Donne. Shak.
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Snow
   Common in Palestine in winter (Ps. 147:16). The snow on the tops
   of the Lebanon range is almost always within view throughout the
   whole year. The word is frequently used figuratively by the
   sacred writers (Job 24:19; Ps. 51:7; 68:14; Isa. 1:18). It is
   mentioned only once in the historical books (2 Sam. 23:20). It
   was "carried to Tyre, Sidon, and Damascus as a luxury, and
   labourers sweltering in the hot harvest-fields used it for the
   purpose of cooling the water which they drank (Prov. 25:13; Jer.
   18:14). No doubt Herod Antipas, at his feasts in Tiberias,
   enjoyed also from this very source the modern luxury of
   ice-water."