snow
snow [-s, -'s] n
OE.
- Winter precipitation; frozen water crystals; freezing vapor of the atmosphere falling in white flakes.
- Whiteness; [fig.] purity; innocence; artlessness; naturalness; good reputation; [fig.] poetry; pages of verse.
- 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”.
- Descend in congealed water crystals; precipitate white star-shaped flakes of frozen moisture; [fig.] become totally white because of much snowfall.