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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes. [1913 Webster] The field of snow with eagle of black therein. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] {Red snow}. See under {Red}. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Snow \Snow\, v. t. To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow. --Donne. Shak. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: 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}]