Definition of Snow

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Definition of Snow

Snow

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.

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.

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

To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.

To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.

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Snow Quotations

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Alfred Hitchcock

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Laozi

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
Bill Watterson

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
Black Elk

Snow Translations

snow in Afrikaans is sneeu
snow in Danish is sne
snow in Dutch is sneeuwen
snow in Finnish is lumi
snow in French is neigeux, neige
snow in German is schneien, Schnee, Schnee
snow in Italian is nevicare, neve
snow in Norwegian is sne
snow in Portuguese is neve
snow in Spanish is nevar, nieve

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