snow

snow [-s, -'s] n

OE.

  1. Winter precipitation; frozen water crystals; freezing vapor of the atmosphere falling in white flakes.
  2. Whiteness; [fig.] purity; innocence; artlessness; naturalness; good reputation; [fig.] poetry; pages of verse.
  3. Floral accretion; accumulation of wind-blown apple blossom; collection of fragrant wind-bourne fruit tree petals.

snow [-s] v

see snow, n.; related to “blow”.

  1. Descend in congealed water crystals; precipitate white star-shaped flakes of frozen moisture; [fig.] become totally white because of much snowfall.