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snow       (snō)  Pronunciation Key  n.   Frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent hexagonal ice crystals that fall in soft, white flakes. A falling of snow; a snowstorm. Something resembling snow, as: The white specks on a television screen resulting from weak reception. Slang Cocaine. Slang Heroin. v.   snowed, snow·ing, snows v.   intr. To fall as or in snow. v.   tr. To cover, shut off, or close off with snow: We were snowed in. Slang To overwhelm with insincere talk, especially with flattery. Phrasal Verb(s): snow under To overwhelm: I was snowed under with work. To defeat by a very large margin. [Middle English, from Old English snāw; see sneigwh- in Indo-European roots.]

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Snow       (snō)  Pronunciation Key  British writer and scientist who is known especially for his 11-volume series Strangers and Brothers (1940-1970).

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snow  (n.)

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snow  (v.)

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snow
noun
1.	precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
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)
4.	street names for cocaine [syn: coke]
verb
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]

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snow

In addition to the idioms beginning with snow, also see pure as the driven snow.

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snow       (snō)  Pronunciation Key  Precipitation that falls to earth in the form of ice crystals that have complex branched hexagonal patterns. Snow usually falls from stratus and stratocumulus clouds, but it can also fall from cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds.

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Snow Camp, NC Zip code(s): 27349

Snow Hill, MD (town, FIPS 73075) Location: 38.17321 N, 75.39162 W
Population (1990): 2217 (927 housing units)
Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 21863

Snow Hill, NC (town, FIPS 62760) Location: 35.45144 N, 77.67452 W
Population (1990): 1378 (607 housing units)
Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 28580

Snow Lake, AR Zip code(s): 72379

Snow Shoe, PA (borough, FIPS 71600) Location: 41.02721 N, 77.95031 W
Population (1990): 800 (301 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 16874

Snow, OK Zip code(s): 74567

Mount Snow, VT Zip code(s): 05356

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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[=i]wan to snow, G. schneien, OHG. sn[=i]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.

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.

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

The field of snow with eagle of black therein. --Chaucer.

Red snow. See under Red.

Snow bunting. (Zo["o]l.) See Snowbird, 1.

Snow cock (Zo["o]l.), the snow pheasant.

Snow flea (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), any wingless dipterous insect of the genus Chionea found running on snow in winter.

Snow goose (Zo["o]l.), 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 (C. c[oe]rulescens) 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 (Zo["o]l.), a European vole (Arvicola nivalis) which inhabits the Alps and other high mountains.

Snow pheasant (Zo["o]l.), 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 (T. Himalayensis) in the best-known species. Called also snow cock, and snow chukor.

Snow partridge. (Zo["o]l.) See under Partridge.

Snow pigeon (Zo["o]l.), 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."