[snoh] 
| 1. | Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets. |
| 2. | these flakes as forming a layer on the ground or other surface. |
| 3. | the fall of these flakes or a storm during which these flakes fall. |
| 4. | something resembling a layer of these flakes in whiteness, softness, or the like: the snow of fresh linen. |
| 5. | Literary.
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| 6. | Slang. cocaine or heroin. |
| 7. | white spots or bands on a television screen caused by a weak signal. Compare hash 1 (def. 5). |
| 8. | to send down snow; fall as snow. |
| 9. | to descend like snow. |
| 10. | to let fall as or like snow. |
| 11. | Slang.
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| 12. | snow under,
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[snoh] | Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow), 1905–80, English novelist and scientist. |
| snow (snō) n.
v. intr. To fall as or in snow. v. tr.
snow under
[Middle English, from Old English snāw; see sneigwh- in Indo-European roots.] |
| Snow (snō) British writer and scientist who is known especially for his 11-volume series Strangers and Brothers (1940-1970). |
| 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. |
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."
snow
In addition to the idioms beginning with snow, also see pure as the driven snow.