snown.1
/snəʊ/, U.S. /snoʊ/ I. The frozen precipitation, and related uses.
1.
a. The partially frozen vapour of the atmosphere falling in flakes characterized by their whiteness and lightness; the fall of these flakes, or the layer formed by them on the surface of the ground.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun]
snowc825
white stuff1891
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > a fall of snow
snowc825
onfall1803
snowfall1821
α.
β. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 99 Þis is þe holi manne [= manna] þe ure drihten sende alse snow sleðrende.c1250 Owl & Night. 413 Þu singest so doþ hen a snowe.13.. Fall & Passion 13 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) Seue daies a seue niȝt as ȝe seeþ þat falliþ snowe.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 110 A dongehul, Þat were bysnewed with snowe.c1425 Cast. Persev. 2642 in Macro Plays 156 It [riches] flyet a-wey, as any snow.1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBBviiv Let vs stande there in the rayne or snowe, all thus storuen for colde.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10971 Of cleane white, As the glyssenond glemes þat glenttes on þe sknowe.1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iv. sig. Giiiv Snowe is white..And lieth in the dike.1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 179 I could hardly keepe him..from being drowned in the snow.a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 50 The Snow lies not long in the lower ground of Ireland.1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 372 Some vapours that ascend to great heights, will be frozen into snow.1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. v. 182 Snow and ice are bad conductors of heat.1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 19 A vast quantity of snow fell during the night.1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 155 Snow is white and opaque in consequence of the air entangled among its crystals.γ. c1250 Owl & Night. 430 Hwanne snouh liþ þikke & wide.c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 209 Þat..caldore was þane ani ys oþur snovȝ.c1320 Cast. Love 722 Þe snowȝ [v.r. snowh] þat is sneuwynge.a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxvi. 1 What maner snoȝ in somer, and reyn in rep time [etc.].c825 Vesp. Ps. cxlvii. 16 Se seleð snaw swe swe wulle.
a1000 Boeth. Metr. xxix. 63 Swylce hagal & snaw hrusan leccað On wintres tid.
c1050 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (MS. C) ann. 1046 On þis ylcan geare..com se stranga winter mid forste & mid snawe.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 35 Ic walde fein pinian and sitten on forste and on snawe up et mine chinne.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13705 Flan al swa þicke swa þe snau adun ualleð.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 22692 A stormi dai..Bath o frost, and hail, and snau.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 265 Peple..whiche haue plente of snawe in the tyme of somer.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 128 This wes eftir the martymes, Quhen snaw had helit all the land.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 47 The snau is ane congelit rane.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 31 How deip saeuir be the snawe,..thay nevir thair heid sett vndir the ruffe of ony hous.
1786 R. Burns Poems 166 The stormy North sends driving forth, The blinding sleet and snaw.
1863 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (ed. 2) 196 I..saw Puir Robin 'midst the driftin snaw.
b. Taken as a type of whiteness or brightness.See also driven adj. 2.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > white thing > [noun] > typical
snowc825
lily971
c825 Vesp. Ps. l. 9 Ofer snaw ic biom gehwitad.
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xvii. 2 Wedo his geworden weron huita sua sna [Rushw. snau].
971 Blickling Hom. 147 Heo hæfde seofon siþum beorhtran saule þonne snaw.
a1200 Vices & Virtues 83 Ðanne wurð ic..hwittere ðane ani snaw.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 9514 Wite cloþes heo dude hire on, as wo seiþ, ilich þe snowe.
a1366 Romaunt Rose 558 Hir throte, al-so whyt of hewe, As snow on braunche snowed newe.
1423 Kingis Quair lxvii Hir faire fresche face, as quhite as ony snawe.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxx. 239 He chaunged coloure and waxed as whyte as snowe.
?1593 G. Fletcher Licia xxv. 26 So is my sweet, much paler than the snowe.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 25 The Ocean was as white as snow.
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 167 How, white as hyperborean snow, To form the lucid lawn.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. liv. 28 Some, whose white hair shone Like mountain snow.
c. In various figurative or allusive uses.
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1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxii Why you..so sore laboured and entyced me to passe ouer the sea, promysynge mountaynes of golde, whiche turned into snowe.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iv. 237 Cla. O doe not slaunder him for he is kind. I[st Murderer] Right as snow in haruest.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. vii. 19 Thou wouldst as soone goe kindle fire with snow . View more context for this quotation
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 14 He was not onely a professed Imitator of Horace, but a learned Plagiary of all the others; you track him every where in their Snow.
1668 J. Austin Devotions Hymn xxxv. 411 Warm with thy fire our harts of snow.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 262 He looks as cold as snow in harvest.
1860 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. xvii. 320 When one has been a year at Oxford, there isn't much snow left to soil.
1862 E. B. Pusey in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1897) IV. 241 Here..we seem to be so familiar with our evils as to acquiesce in them, sleeping in the snow, which is death.
d. With adjectives of colour, denoting snow tinged by various foreign substances, or the alga, etc., to which the colouring is due.
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1678 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 976 On St. Josephs day, upon the Mountains call'd Le Langhe, there fell..a great quantity of red, or if you please of bloody Snow.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 168/1 A field of green snow.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 168/1 Martius arrived at the conclusion..that the green snow (Protococcus viridis) and the red (P. nivalis) are one and the same plant.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 31 Mar. Black snow in the Lake district... On Tuesday,..it is stated, there was a sharp fall of perfectly black snow.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. s.v. Golden snow.
2. in extended use.1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 212 How calm he sits at ease, Mid snows of paper, and fierce hail of pease.1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xix Great white tassels..tossed in their faces a fragrant snow of blossoms.1866 B. Taylor Poet's Jrnl. in Poems 31 The bosom of the lawn Whitened beneath her silent snow of light.
a. A fall of snow; a snowstorm. Now rare.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 3.
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c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxiii Norðanwindas & micle renas & snawas.
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) (1988) 58 Sodeyn snowis..rysing and encrees of ryueres and flodes.
1489–90 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 90 At my departing I rode..a full troubleous way in that great snaw.
1562 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 112 Apon a saturday afore that tyme, beynge a gret snowe.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 105 At Christmas I no more desire a Rose, Then wish a Snow in Mayes new fangled showes. View more context for this quotation
1694 S. Sewall Diary 16 Mar. (1973) I. 318 A great Snow falls.
1717 S. Sewall Diary 20 Feb. (1973) II. 848 Another Snow coming on.
1740 T. Smith Jrnl. in Jrnls. T. Smith & S. Deane (1849) 268 We had only two snows and sledding but about three weeks.
1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress (ed. 2) II. 92 Her good man..walked through a very thick snow, to inform her [etc.].
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ix. xxi. 203 Next come the snows, and rain, And frosts, and storms.
b. As marking a period of time; a winter.
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the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > winter
midwinterOE
wintertideOE
winterOE
wintertimea1398
hiemsc1450
snow-time1535
dead of winter1548
after-winter1593
back-winter1599
snow1778
ice queen1818
old-fashioned winter1829
the world > time > period > year > [noun]
wintereOE
yeareOE
yearOE
yearOE
yearOE
twelvemonthc1275
a time and times and half a timec1384
foil1481
zodiacc1560
twelve moons1609
suns1743
outfit1791
snow1825
season1827
yr1880
1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 250 Those [Indians] in the interior parts..count their years by winters; or, as they express themselves, by snows.
1825 H. W. Longfellow Burial Minnisink iv Thirty snows had not yet shed Their glory on the warrior's head.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xxi. 147 The notches he had recorded for the snows (or years) of his life.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxii. 37 Thro' four sweet years.., from snow to snow. View more context for this quotation
1873 J. Miller Life amongst Modocs (1876) xix. 272 One late and severe springtime many thousand snows away.
3.
a. An accumulation, mass, expanse, or field, of snow.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > an accumulation or expanse of snow
snowc1374
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 10 The golden-tressed Phebus..Thryes hadde alle with his bemes shene The snowes molte.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 5 [There are] mony weitis, deip snawis.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 347 There is a large river.., which some Spanish were about to crosse, but could not for snows.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 97 When Winter shuts the Seas, and fleecy Snows Make Houses white.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 125 This River..was much increas'd by the melting of the Snows when Cæsar pass'd it.
a1771 T. Gray Ess. I in W. Mason Mem. Life & Writings (1775) 198 O'er Libia's deserts and thro' Zembla's snows?
1820 W. Scott Monastery III. vi. 159 The snows of that Mount Blanc which we saw together.
1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. xxix. 294 The most conspicuous group of snows seen from Khasia.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 24 Yonder, where the far snows blanch Mute Mont Blanc.
b. plural. The regions of perpetual snow; the Arctic regions.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > one of five > arctic
frigid zone1622
Arctic1678
snows1844
1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. in Dial Apr. 491 To men legislating for the vast area betwixt..the snows and the tropics.
4. Elliptical for snow tyre n. at Compounds 2b. North American.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > rubber or pneumatic tyre > types of
sidewall1901
non-skid1905
retread1909
remould1928
recap1929
knobbly1938
knobby1943
whitewall1950
slick1959
bias-ply1964
radial1964
cross-ply1965
snow1968
Pennsylvania cap1971
wet1977
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 26/2 (advt.) 67 Fiat,..special exhaust, snows.
1977 Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 22- d/8 (advt.) '73 F-350 V8 4spd, dual tanks, PsPb, Ranger, snows.
II. Something resembling snow.
5. Applied to various things or substances having the colour or appearance of snow:
a. Cookery. A dish or confection resembling snow in appearance, esp. one made by whipping the white of eggs to a creamy consistency.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > other egg dishes
poachéa1425
meseladea1450
potrona1450
malasadec1450
poached eggc1450
eggs in moonshine?1558
snow1597
fondue1806
Scotch egg1808
soufflé1813
scrabbed eggsa1825
Scotch woodcock1836
egg salad1873
prairie oyster1879
Adam and Eve on a raft1891
Russian egg1891
eggs Benedict1898
huevos rancheros1901
sabayon1906
oeuf en cocotte1909
shakshuka1930
piperade1931
thousand-year egg1961
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > other confections or sweet dishes
pionade1302
spinee1381
pokerouncea1450
strawberry cream1523
pannag1540
alkermes1547
sugar-bread1587
snow1597
flammick1600
Norfolk fool1623
fool1653
chocolate cream1702
meringue1706
steeple cream1747
trifle1755
snowball1769
sweet bread1777
marrangle1809
meteor1820
mimpins1820
Nesselrode1835
meringué1845
Swiss cream1845
turban1846
coconut cream1847
panforte1865
yokan1875
bombe1892
Eton mess1896
meringue Chantilly1901
streusel1909
rocky road1920
ringocandy1922
stem ginger1922
dulce de leche1923
kissel1924
some-more1925
cream-crowdie1929
Pavlova cake1929
s'more1934
cranachan1946
sugar-on-snow1947
calavera1948
suji halwa1955
vacherin1960
zuppa inglese1961
brûlée1966
pav1966
delice1967
banoffi1974
macaroon1985
Nanaimo1991
macaron1993
1597 Bk. Cookerie F b How to make Snowe. Take a quart of thicke cream, and fiue or sixe whites of eggs [etc.].
1864 Englishw. in India 173 Whip the whites of six eggs to a hard snow.
a1887 Cassell's Dict. Cookery 375 Lemon snow.
a1887 Cassell's Dict. Cookery 887 Recipes for the following snows will be found under their respective headings.
a1887 Cassell's Dict. Cookery 887 Apple snow may be iced.
b. Chemistry. One or other of various substances having a snow-like appearance (see quots.). spec. Solid carbon dioxide.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > [noun] > substance with a snow-like appearance
snow1802
1802 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. I. 240 A white powder, formerly called snow or white flowers of antimony. This is the white oxyd of antimony.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 401 This white oxide of antimony was formerly called argentine snow, or flowers of antimony.
1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 317/1 A small piece of this carbonic acid snow was placed on the surface of water.
1913 J. Hall-Edwards Carbon Dioxide Snow 28 Having prepared our cone, or stick of snow..the first step is to place the patient in a comfortable and easy position.
1931 Dougherty & Kearney Fire 243 The ‘snow’ does not freeze the fire as is sometimes erroneously believed, but blankets or smothers it.
1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) ii. 20 Many bacteria and viruses..may be preserved by rapid freezing to −70°C, with Co2-snow.
1974 L. E. Long Geol. i. 19 A frozen ‘snow’ of methane and ammonia glued the dust particles into globs that eventually grew to about the size of basketballs.
1979 Nature 30 Aug. 738/1 Much of the distributed SO2 snow would be expected to fall within a few tens of kilometres of the scarps [on Jupiter's satellite Io].
c. poetic. White marble.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > marble > white
snow1848
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > marble > others
Florentine marble1706
Carraraa1728
rosso antico1730
giallo antico1741
campan1794
dolomite1794
ruin marble1798
turquin1811
picrite1814
landscape marble1816
snow1848
Irish green1850
palombino1859
Tennessee marble1875
corallite1883
stalagmite marble1895
Piastraccia1909
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) Proem p. vii Ere now marmoreal floods had spread their couch Of perdurable snow.
d. slang (originally U.S.). Cocaine; occasionally heroin or morphine.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > morphine, cocaine, or heroin
white stuff1908
snow1914
mojo1935
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 78 Snow,..derived from the extremely flocculent nature of cocaine when pulverized.
1915 Policeman's Monthly Dec. 17/3 One day, his pal found him depressed and told him to take a little sniff of ‘snow’, as heroin is known to the vernacular of the criminal.
1921 Outward Bound June 67/2 The wiles of the dealers in ‘snow’ [are] extraordinarily insidious.
1922 E. F. Murphy Black Candle 49 ‘A snowbird’—that is to say a man who snuffs cocaine, usually designated as ‘snow’.
1925 A. P. Herbert Laughing Ann 92 Don't let her know about whisky and ‘snow’.
1929 ‘Seamark’ Down River ii Snow has been at a premium until this cargo landed.
1933 N. Douglas Looking Back II. 364 He..walked up and down the room..taking, every now and then, a pinch of cocaine... ‘I didn't know you took snow.’
1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz xviii. 114 Not all jazz-players smoke marijuana or opium, or sniff snow or jab a vein.
1966 ‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive iii. 25 Pangsapa was a narcotics contrabandist and would therefore know people..prepared to kill for a fix of snow.
1967 N. Lucas C.I.D. x. 135 Luckier still not to have graduated from pep pills to..‘Snow’..—morphine.
1979 P. Driscoll Pangolin xx. 151 ‘Tell me how much this roll will get me.’ ‘I guess around a hundred twenty grams. That's..the purest snow you'll ever see.’
e. slang. (Silver) money.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
scata1122
spense?c1225
spendinga1290
sumc1300
gooda1325
moneya1325
cattlec1330
muckc1330
reasona1382
pecunyc1400
gilt1497
argentc1500
gelta1529
Mammon1539
ale silver1541
scruff1559
the sinews of war1560
sterling1565
lour1567
will-do-all1583
shell1591
trasha1592
quinyie1596
brass1597
pecuniary1604
dust1607
nomisma1614
countera1616
cross and pilea1625
gingerbreada1625
rhinoa1628
cash1646
grig1657
spanker1663
cole1673
goree1699
mopus1699
quid1699
ribbin1699
bustle1763
necessary1772
stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
pecuniar1793
kelter1807
dibs1812
steven1812
pewter1814
brad1819
pogue1819
rent1823
stumpy1828
posh1830
L. S. D.1835
rivetc1835
tin1836
mint sauce1839
nobbins1846
ochre1846
dingbat1848
dough1848
cheese1850
California1851
mali1851
ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
dinero1856
scad1856
the shiny1856
spondulicks1857
rust1858
soap1860
sugar1862
coin1874
filthy1876
wampum1876
ooftish1877
shekel1883
oil1885
oof1885
mon1888
Jack1890
sploshc1890
bees and honey1892
spending-brass1896
stiff1897
mazuma1900
mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
jingle1906
doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 263 Snow, money. Silver.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid 173 Count up that snow while I go through the other drawers.
1970 F. McKenna Gloss. Railwaymen's Talk 38 Snow, small silver i.e. sixpences.
f. Spots that appear as a flickering mass filling a television or radar screen, caused by interference or a low signal-to-noise ratio.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun] > television picture or image > defects in
multiple image1863
ghost1927
flicker1933
ion spot1936
halation1937
blooming1940
shading1940
misregistration1942
snow1946
snowstorm1948
ringing1949
streaking1956
strobing1961
flickering1968
1946 Proc. IRE 34 428/2 These [current] fluctuations give rise to a masking effect, often referred to as ‘snow’, in the transmitted picture.
1950 Heller & Shulman Television Servicing vi. 121 Low signal input may be recognized by the characteristic presence of ‘snow’ in the received picture.
1977 J. Cheever Falconer 209 I took my TV... I had a little snow and asked the repairman to come in.
1978 Sci. Amer. Apr. 18/1 The most commonly encountered white noise is the thermal noise produced by the random motions of electrons through an electrical resistance. It causes most of the static in a radio or amplifier and the ‘snow’ on radar and television screens when there is no input.
6.
a. The white hair of age. Chiefly in phrases. Also plural.
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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > white
snow1638
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 57 If my passions be cooled by the snow of my head, I have then never a white hayre [etc.].
1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epode xvii, in tr. Horace Odes II. 345 Thy fragrant Drugs, upon my Head More than the Snows of Age have shed.
1757 tr. Horace Odes ii. xi, in W. Duncombe et al. tr. Horace Wks. I. 9 Age drops her Snow upon our Heads.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. ii. 54 Attiring herself like summer though her head was covered with snow.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 309 Wreaths sat on each hoar crown, whose snows flush'd rosy beneath them.
b. slang. (See quots.)
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > clothes to be or that have been washed
buck1532
wash1789
snow1811
washing1843
wash-linen1901
laundry1916
dry cleaning1930
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Snow, linen hung out to dry or bleach.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 207 Snow, clean linen from the washerwoman's hands, whether it be wet or dry.
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 97 Snow, wet linen.
c. White bloom or blossom; spray or foam.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > blossom or flower(s)
blossom971
bledec975
blooma1400
flourishinga1400
floweringa1400
flourisha1500
blowing1578
blooming1622
pip1753
floriage1782
florescence1793
blow1797
flowerage1831
bloom-flinder1840
gosling1847–78
snow1859
fleuret1868
bloomagea1876
blossomry1901
the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > white thing > [noun] > natural
cotton wool1648
snow1859
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. i. 2 The elder-bushes which were spreading their summer snow close to the open window.
1885 J. H. Dell Dawning Grey, Songs of Surges 97 I stood looking forth o'er the surges,—Looking forth o'er their squadrons of snow.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 14 Apr. 2/3 With the May rain still on their petalled snow.
d. In some popular names of plants, as snow-in-harvest, snow-in-summer (see quots.). Also snow-on-the-mountain n.
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1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Snow-in-harvest,..a flower, Cerastium tomentosum.
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 440 Snow-in-harvest,..(2) Clematis Vitalba... (3) Alyssum maritimum.
7.
a. The pure white colour of snow; snow-white. Chiefly poetic.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [noun] > pure whiteness > as snow
snowiness1727
snowa1745
snow-whiteness1856
snow-white1890
a1745 W. Broome in Fawke's Anacreon (1760) 126 The Graces more enchanting show, When rosy Blushes paint their Snow.
1760 J. Macpherson Fragments Anc. Poetry xiv. 65 The youth with the breast of snow!
1827 W. Scott Highland Widow in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xii. 237 The daughters of the land were beautiful, with blue eyes and fair hair, and bosoms of snow.
1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 163 Her eye sae bright and womanly—Her breast o' mountain snaw.
b. plural. White breasts.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun]
titOE
breastOE
mammaOE
pysea1400
mamellec1450
dug1530
duckya1533
bag1579
pommela1586
mam1611
Milky Way1622
bubby?1660
udder1702
globea1727
fore-buttock1727
tetty1746
breastwork?1760
diddy1788
snows1803
sweets1817
titty1865
pappy1869
Charleys1874
bub1881
breastiec1900
ninny1909
pair1919
boobs1932
boobya1934
fun bag1938
maraca1940
knockers1941
can1946
mammaries1947
bazooms1955
jug1957
melon1957
bosoms1959
Bristols1961
chichi1961
nork1962
puppies1963
rack1968
knob1970
dingleberry1980
jubblies1991
1803 Visct. Strangford tr. L. V. de Camoens Poems 41 Starlight eyes, and heaving snows.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. In the sense of ‘snow-like, white as snow’.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as snow
snow-whitec1000
as pure (also white) as (the) driven snowc1330
snowishc1374
snowy1590
nixious1623
snow-like1663
snow1750
1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 94 It has a brown or iron colour, sprinkled over with snow spots.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II cxxi. 179 Her small snow feet had slippers, but no stocking.
1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 80 If a wuthering of his palmy snow-pinions scatter a colossal smile Off him.
b. Cookery. (Cf. sense 5a.)
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1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxix. 747 Snow Eggs,..4 eggs, ¾ pint of milk,..sugar..vanilla, lemon-rind.
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxv. 864 Snow cake…1/ 2 lb. of tous-les-mois, 1/ 4 lb. of..sugar, 1/ 4 lb. of..butter, 1 egg,..1 lemon.
1877 Cassell's Dict. Cookery Snow Cake... Snow Cheese... Snow Cocoa-nut [etc.].
1894 Westm. Gaz. 30 May 8/2 Recipe for Snow Eggs.
C2.
a. In the sense of ‘consisting or composed of snow; covered, filled, or mixed with snow; derived from, due to, made in, snow’. Many combinations of this type occur in works specially dealing with Alpine or Arctic regions, as Kane Arctic Explor. (1856), Tyndall Glaciers (1860), etc.
snow-bank n.
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1779 E. Parkman Diary (1899) 194 Snow-Banks very high one nigh my saddle-house 6 feet high.
1803 Visct. Strangford tr. L. V. de Camoens Poems 100 Like snow-banks scatter'd with the blooms of May.
1819 E. Evans Pedestrious Tour 183 The thieves..were dividing the spoil behind some neighboring snow-bank.
1838 Knickerbocker Mag. 12 341 The wind is playing a wintry dirge around my ears, and great snow-banks are rising.
1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) xxiv. 139 The Crocus,..not unfrequently blossoming in the neighbourhood of a snow-bank.
1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women (1869) II. vi. 79 She sat..as cool as a snow-bank.
1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail vii. 137 We ran into a snow-bank near Rosehill and stuck fast.
1897 Outing (U.S.) 30 454/1 He told of a trip..when he sat on a snow-bank and picked strawberries.
snow-bed n.
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1857 M. Arnold Rugby Chapel 100 The unseen snow-beds dislodge Their hanging rain.
1884 Good Words Jan. 43/1 We now hastened..across the old snow-beds.
snow-berg n.
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1840 R. Bremner Excursions Denmark I. 219 Its towers turned into snow-bergs.
snow-blast n.
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1773 J. Hakwesworth Acct. Voy. S. Hemisphere II. i. iv. 47 The cold was now become more severe, and the snow-blasts more frequent.
1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 210 A snow-blast fell upon them, to Devonians almost an unknown thing.
snow block n.
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1893 ‘M. Twain’ in Cosmopolitan Nov. 54/1 My father..built this great mansion of frozen snow-blocks.
1973 W. S. Avis in Occas. Papers Dept. Eng. Royal Mil. Coll. Canada (1978) No. 2. 152 A knife..used primarily in cutting snow blocks for igloo-building.
1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 22 Alaskan Eskimos often built their igloos out of animal skins, driftwood, etc., using snow~block ones only for temporary or emergency shelters.
snow bridge n.
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1890 Moose Jaw (Sask.) Times 20 June 1/4 Every observant passenger on the Canadian Pacific Railroad had noticed the snow bridge on the Illecillewaet, but there are records of ice bridges also.
1921 A. Lunn Alpine Ski-ing vii. 83 On the Grenz glacier a snow-bridge fourteen feet thick, and in the recent Oberaarfoch accident a snow-bridge six feet thick, collapsed beneath men on skis.
1939 Geogr. Jrnl. 94 462 Above the crevasse the surface of the glacier was covered by scree; and the material embedded in the ice, as seen in the bergschrund, is probably derived in some way from this surface material... A snow-bridge occurred 25 feet below the surface in the open part of the schrund.
1979 C. Kilian Icequake xiii. 228 The snow bridges seem good and thick, but the quake probably weakened them.
snow cap n.
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1871 R. A. Proctor Light Sci. 110 Observing the earth's polar snow-caps must lead to several important conclusions.
snow-cave n.
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1972 D. Haston In High Places ix. 103 On descending they found Mick at the col installed in a snow-cave that he had dug out.
1981 Nordic Skiing Jan. 21/2 You can imagine me huddled in my own hastily dug snow cave waiting out the blizzard.
snow-cloud n.
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1879 I. L. Bird Lady's Life Rocky Mts. x. 168 Looming vaguely through a heavy snow-cloud.
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 318 A light haze of snow-cloud obscured the lesser stars.
snow cornice n.
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1871 E. Whymper Scrambles amongst Alps (1900) xii. 246 These snow-cornices are common on the crests of high mountain ridges.
snow cover n.
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1919 Sci. Monthly 9 397 A winter snow-cover prevents deep freezing of the ground.
1956 A. Garnett in D. L. Linton Sheffield 48 1947..was phenomenal for the prolonged and severe cold weather experienced and for the long duration of a snow cover.
snow crag n.
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1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xiii, in Prometheus Unbound 217 The cold Snow-crags by its reply are cloven in sunder.
snow-crust n.
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1824 S. Black Jrnl. Voy. from Rocky Mountain Portage 24 May (1955) 14 They left the Fort in March on the snow crust.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. iii. 214 Teis (1946) examined various snow crusts and firn samples.
1979 R. Fiennes Hell on Ice iv. 63 The wind-firm snowcrust.
snow crystal n.
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1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 789/1 The different prismatic rays issuing from the minute snow-crystals.
snow dust n.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxi. 267 The fine impacted snow-dust of winter.
snow-flurry n.
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1879 I. L. Bird Lady's Life Rocky Mts. ix. 124 The wild flowers are gorgeous..though..the recent snow~flurries have finished them.
1936 Geogr. Jrnl. 87 133 On September 1 came the first snow-flurries of the season.
snow fog n.
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1817 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Mariner (rev. ed.) i, in Sibylline Leaves 6 (margin) A great sea-bird..came through the snow-fog.
1897 Outing 29 368/2 The shadowy forms of birds rapidly vanished in the snow-fog.
snow-glare n.
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1860 M. Reid Odd People 394 More likely it is the snow-glare to which the Laplander, as well as the Esquimaux, is much exposed, that brings about the copious watering of the eyes.
1962 L. S. Sasieni Princ. & Pract. Optical Dispensing xiii. 326 In snow glare protection is required against the ultra-violet.
1970 R. D. Taring Daughter of Tibet xix. 246 Between the smoke and the snow-glare of the day our eyes were red and watering and very sore.
snow haze n.
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1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 28 May (1941) 56 As ideas..flag and something like a snow haze covers my whole imagination.
snow-hut n.
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1823 London Lit. Gaz. 25 Oct. 673/3 A tribe of about fifty Esquimaux who were erecting their snow-huts.
1882 Imperial Dict. Snow-hut,..a hut built of snow.
1930 V. Sackville-West Edwardians i. 28 He had been marooned..somewhere near the South Pole in a snow-hut.
snow ice n.
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1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 332/2 If the latter freezes, the result is ‘snow-ice’, which is of no value.
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. ii. ii. 110 Snow-ice is formed above the snow-line, but may descend in glaciers far below it.
snow land n.
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1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein II. 513 Out of what planet have these people dropped into Muscovy's frozen snowland?
snow-light n.
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1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 57 Some snow-light cadences Melting to silence.
1830 M. O'Brien Jrnl. 26 Jan. (1968) ix. 87 It was dark—as dark as it can be with snowlight.
1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. 114 Daylight, bred between Moon-light and snow-light.
snow marbling n.
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1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada vi. 126 Rosy peaks, with dull, silvery snow-marblings.
snow mist n.
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1866 J. G. Whittier Snow-bound 96 The sun through dazzling snow-mist shone.
snow mountain n.
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1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad II. xiii. 40 Seen from afar, like a snow-mountain's peak.
snow ooze n.
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1882 Garden 7 Jan. 5/2 Alpine flowers..striving to bloom in the snow-ooze on the Alps.
snow-patch n.
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1909 E. Warming et al. Oecol. Plants ix. lxvii. 257 In depressions lying within the subglacial tract where snow remains for a long time, one finds characteristic, greasy mud, which sustains a vegetation of its own—Öttli's snow-patch flora.
1979 B. John World of Ice 26 (caption) The peaks and mountain-sides at this time of year are almost free of snow and ice, and only a few perennial snowpatches remain.
snow peak n.
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1830 F. D. Hemans Chamois Hunter's Love in Songs of Affections 43 Where the snow-peaks gleam like stars.
snow plain n.
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1837 J. E. Murray Summer in Pyrenees II. 201 (note) The wreath might terminate..in a snow-plain.
snow rack n.
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1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vi. 216 Hail, sleet and snow-rack far behind him fly.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 13 When..the driving snow-rack cleared up.
snow ridge n.
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1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 9 Snow-ridges masked each darling spot.
snow river n.
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1884 Congregationalist June 493 A snow river crashing down the sides of the mountain.
snow ruck n.
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1880 F. W. Burbidge Gardens of Sun i. 9 Here and there the surface is rippled like a snow-ruck.
snow shine n.
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1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 85 Like spots of snow-shine in dark fairy rings.
1887 A. C. Swinburne Poems & Ballads (1897) 3rd Ser. 3 As the sunshine quenches the snowshine.
snow shower n.
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1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 181 There were several snow showers during the day.
1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. ii. 15 The first feathery flakes of a snow shower.
snow slip n.
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 161 Snow-slips, well known, and greatly dreaded by travellers.
1898 Speaker Oct. 410 The snow-slips are very destructive in this narrow valley.
snow slope n.
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1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xiv. 96 Precipitous snow-slopes, fluted by the descent of..avalanches.
1878 J. D. Hooker & J. Ball Jrnl. Tour Marocco 263 We had kept close to one of these long and..narrow snowslopes.
snow slush n.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. iv. 183 In the snow-slush of last winter.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xiv. 96 Our way lying in part through deep snow-slush.
snow-squall n.
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1775 E. Wild Jrnl. 6 Dec. in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1886) II. 287 The weather is attended with Snow Squalls.
1849 N. Kingsley Diary 55 We have had one or two quite heavy snow squalls this morning.
1888 Nature 2 Feb. 333 Copeland..was almost completely thwarted by snow-squalls.
snow statue n.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. i. 46 There are Snow-statues raised by the poor in hard winter.
snow stream n.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. ix. 95 The snow-streams or gullies that led to a gorge.
snow sunshine n.
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1819 L. Richmond in Grimshawe Memoir (1828) xiii. 432 Illuminated with snow-sunshine.
snow swell n.
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1877 W. C. Bryant Little People in Poems 106 The little maiden..climbed the rounded snow-swells.
snow track n.
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1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 10 The den where snow tracks mark the way.
snow wind n.
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1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 1708 in Poems I As the snow-wind beats blindly on the moorland.
b. In the sense of ‘used for, or in connection with, snow’.
snow-anchor n.
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1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face 248 The ‘dead men’ were an outstanding success and..gave by far the most reliable..snow anchor we were able to use on the expedition.
1972 D. Haston In High Places xi. 120 Using devious combinations of snow-stakes, ‘dead men’ (or snow-anchors).., they took two days to come out of those overhangs.
snow-boot n.
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1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 225 Each of the three species of Tetras..; it is usually said with us, that they have in winter their snow-boots.
1856 S. Osborn MacClure's Discov. North-West Passage xii. 160 The heavy falls the men experienced in their thick winter clothing and cloth snow-boots.
1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship i. viii. 142 She came..to ask if she could borrow my snowboots to walk in the snow with.
1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 16/3 (advt.) Tamarack snow boots. The new style.
snow buggy adj. and n.
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1949 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Feb. 15/3 Second Army headquarters..is sending 48 ‘snow buggy’ operators..to the aid of snow~bound Nebraskans... Their main job will be to drive weasels, the Army's special vehicle for snow-covered terrain.
1965 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 27 Dec. 17 (caption) Roaring through the snow at speeds..approaching 35 miles-an-hour on the..new snow buggy.
snow chain n.
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1975 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 Feb. 12/1 If you don't have snow chains, don't even try to get up the steep logging road.
1981 P. Turnbull Deep & Crisp & Even i. 8 An ambulance with snow chains drove along the street.
snow-coat n.
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1963 N.Y. Times 15 Dec. 18/7 (advt.) This jaunty..pile~lined ‘snowcoat’ gets you ready for Winter's worst!
1965 Harper's Bazaar Nov. 95 Fir green quilted snowcoat.
snow eye n.
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1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 109 Snow-eyes, which..are most excellently contrived for preserving the eyes from the effect of the snow in the spring.
snow-fence n.
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1873 G. M. Grant Ocean to Ocean ix. 261 The high mountains..act as natural snow fences.
1885 Longman's Mag. Feb. 423 These cuttings had not been protected..with snow..fences.
1902 Nature 4 Sept. 454 Snow-fences are commonly erected in Canada to check the rate of snow-drifting.
snow-fencing n.
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1953 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. 46 68/2 Others made cribs out of snow fencing and piled the grain in the open fields.
1972 L. Hancock Sleeping Bag viii. 181 We dug an extensive salt-water pool and walk-in aviary..then snow-fencing enclosures for the raptorial birds.
snow flange n.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 826 Snow Flanges,..a bar of iron or steel attached to a car or engine to scrape away snow and ice on the sides..of the rails.
snow gallery n.
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1874 J. F. Rusling Across Amer. xxvii. 429 Snow galleries consumed in all nearly forty-five million feet, board measure, of sawed timber, and over a million and a quarter feet of round timber.
1975 D. Bagley Snow Tiger xix. 157 They build snow galleries over roads..in Switzerland. The snow goes straight over the top.
snow gauge n.
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1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 257/1 Glaisher's rain and snow gauge.
1939 Meteorol. Gloss. (Meteorol. Office) (ed. 3) 172 In the Hellmann-Fuess snow-gauge the snow is caught in a receiver supported on a balance, the displacement of which is continuously recorded.
1952 E. F. Davies Illyrian Venture ii. 32 The snow gauges on the mountain passes, dead tree trunks with marks nailed to them to show the depth of the winter drifts.
snow-glasses n.
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1927 E. Hemingway Men without Women 162 Around the major's eyes were two white circles where his snow-glasses had protected his face from the sun on the snow.
1975 E. Hillary Nothing venture, Nothing Win xi. 175 Wilkins..seemed comparatively unhurt, although his snowglasses had cut his forehead.
snow goggle n.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for protecting the sight > [noun] > spectacles or eyeglasses > to protect the eyes from light > from glare of snow
snow spectacles1793
snow goggle1887
1887 19th Cent. Nov. 672 Mr. Murdock..found an Eskimo snow-goggle.
1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs I. 59 The reflection..off the snow would have been positively blinding had we not been provided with snow goggles.
snow harrow n.
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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 622 A snow-harrow or a snow-plough will be found a useful implement.
snow knife n.
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1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xii. 401 In the South the men have..snow-knives, ice-chisels [etc.].
snow-pants n.
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1948 T. Onraet Down North 100 The ordinary snow pants and parka are made with the least possible openings.
1962 N.Y. Post 9 Oct. 22 (advt.) Infants' pile snowsuits... Matching, contrasting snowpants.
1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. d1/1 It was still cold and your mother made you put on your coat, hat and mittens, but you could never-mind the ‘snow pants’ by now.
snow pole n.
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1875 S. Wood & H. Lapham Waiting for Mail 36 We found him lying beside the snow-pole just on the hill.
snow racket n.
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1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 688/1 It is then only accessible with dog-sleighs and snow-raquets.
snow saw n.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. i. 21 A snow-saw.
snow-scoop n.
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1961 J. W. Anderson Fur Trader's Story x. 80 I struck the tent, loaded the toboggan with tent, stove,..snow scoop.. and so forth, and set off.
1963 Engineering 18 Jan. 79 The manufacturers are now considering adding the snow-scoop to their range of standard attachments.
snow scooter n.
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1964 Star Weekly (Toronto) 19 Dec. 13/1 The odd little snow scooters you see cavorting about..represent the newest phenomenon to revolutionize Canadian sport, family living—and business.
1969 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Sept. 27/3 Reindeer-tending Lapps of northern Norway use snow scooters to round up strays and transport supplies.
1981 Times 14 Dec. 22/8 Four policemen..have been..to North Cape, in Norway, for charity. They reached there on snow scooters.
snow shade n.
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1864 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 6 454/1 The Icelanders have their snow-shades, but a reader has no protection from paper glare.
snow-shed n.
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1868 Oregon State Jrnl. 22 Aug. 2/3 The Pacific Railroad advertises for a thousand men to build snow sheds on the summit.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Snow-shed, a protection for a railway-track in exposed situations.
1882 D. Pidgeon Engineer's Holiday I. 275 The track is covered by snow-sheds.
1965 E. McCourt Road across Canada 177 In Glacier [B.C.] more than half a mile of snowsheds, solidly built of steel and concrete.., guard the most vulnerable spots.
1971 Daily Tel. 9 Jan. 9/2 The railway line runs through numerous long snow-sheds in these high lands [in Norway]. These are built over the line to keep it free of snow in winter.
snow shovel n.
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1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 233 A wooden ‘mallet’, and ‘snow-shovel’.
snow skate n.
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1854 R. G. Latham Native Races Russ. Empire 84 The skide (pronounced she) is a snow-skate upwards of six feet long.
1897 Outing 29 357/2 For this purpose nothing could be better than the snowshoe and snowskate, or ski, of to-day.
snow spectacles n.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for protecting the sight > [noun] > spectacles or eyeglasses > to protect the eyes from light > from glare of snow
snow spectacles1793
snow goggle1887
1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xix. 97 The effusions of light from the snow (to guard against which the Esquimaux wear snow-spectacles).
1901 H. Seebohm Birds of Siberia v. 47 The glare of the sunshine on the white snow forced us to wear snow spectacles.
snow-stake n.
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1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face viii. 95 I pushed in a snow-stake, but it went in too easily and would almost certainly be pulled out if I fell on it.
1972 [see snow-anchor n.]. snow-suit n.
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1942 D. Powell Time to be Born i. 37 The red snow suit her mother had promised.
1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship i. iii. 53 Emmy put Freddy into his snow-suit.
1980 Daily Tel. 9 Jan. 1/8 There was no sign of the guerrillas in the rugged terrain, but Russians and their armour, including tanks, were everywhere. Some were in white snow suits.
snow sweep n.
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1886 Daily News 28 Dec. 5/7 Yesterday morning the snow-sweep, drawn by six horses, was got to work early.
snow tractor n.
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1936 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. 12 34/2 Somebody began to work on the idea of snowmobiles and snow tractors.
1971 Country Life 14 Oct. 964/1 Hardly had the two children been freed when they [sc. a rescue team] were on the spot, having covered the ground in a snow~tractor.
snow train n.
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1885 Longman's Mag. Feb. 425 About nine o'clock the ‘snow outfit’ steamed in. The snow-train was made up of six vehicles.
snow tyre n.
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1954 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Jan. 8/1 Now it's chains vs. snow tires, the treachery of the steep hill by the lake and stern telephone calls to warn the little woman off the roads.
1968 ‘E. McBain’ Fuzz xii. 197 The snow..presented no major traffic problems as yet, especially if..one had snow tyres on one's automobile.
1978 Times 23 Jan. 12/7 Avis..had only one car they could rent me and it had no snow tyres or chains.
snow vehicle n.
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1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 46/3 (heading) Snow vehicles.
C3.
a. With past participles (chiefly with instrumental force).
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snow-backed adj.
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1897 R. Kipling Five Nations (1903) 18 While thick around the homestead Our snow-backed leaders graze.
snow-beaten adj.
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1836–48 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Clouds i. iii On the snow-beaten peak Of Olympus.
snow-blanched adj.
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1945 W. de la Mare Burning-glass & Other Poems 23 The snow~blanched sunshine.
snow-blown adj.
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1866 J. G. Whittier Snow-bound 118 The sun, a snow-blown traveller, sank From sight.
snow-born adj.
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1879 I. L. Bird Lady's Life Rocky Mts. vii. 97 From this side rise, snow-born, the bright St. Vrain, and the Big and Little Thompson.
1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 62 Fair siren of the snow-born lake.
snow-bound adj.
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1814 Ld. Byron in L. Hunt Autobiogr. (1850) II. 318 I have been snow-bound..for nearly a month.
1894 W. E. Gladstone tr. Horace Odes ii. ix. 20 'Mid snow-bound mountains of the Medes.
snow-choked adj.
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1857 R. W. Emerson Poems 62 Wading in the snow-choked wood.
snow-cooled adj.
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1920 R. Graves Country Sentiment 63 Or toys or meat or snow-cooled drink.
snow-dazed adj.
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a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 48 We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed, deep into grassier ditches.
snow-dimmed adj.
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1957 E. Blunden Poems of Many Years 295 In snow-dimmed moonlight.
snow-drowned adj.
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1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 115 Snow-drowned fields, obstructed roads.
1978 G. Greene Human Factor vi. ii. 322 Outside the silence of the snow-drowned street was so extreme that Castle hesitated to break it.
snow-fed adj.
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1726 J. Thomson Winter (ed. 2) 52 A thousand, Snow-fed, Torrents.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 25 Rock-embosomed lawns, and snow-fed streams.
1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 31 The lily-scented blood, the snow-fed wine of scarlet stain.
1963 Times 6 Feb. (New Zealand Suppl.) p. vii/3 The Rangitata itself—snow-fed and treacherous.
snow-hooded adj.
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1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xxv. 245 The stately border of snow-hooded mountain peaks.
1945 W. de la Mare Burning-glass & Other Poems 44 A moth, snow-hooded, delicate past belief.
snow-packed adj.
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1973 J. M. White Garden Game 188 Teague drove his Mercedes..on to the snow-packed verge.
snow-shouldered adj.
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1921 W. de la Mare Veil & Other Poems 59 Snake-haired, snow-shouldered, pure as flame and dew.
1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 17 Each great snow~shouldered beast.
(b) In parasynthetic combinations.
snow-barricadoed adj.
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c1745 J. Armstrong Misc. (1770) I. 150 Thro' the snow-barricadoed cottage door.
snow-bearded adj.
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1827 G. Darley Sylvia 7 The snow-bearded tenant of a wilderness.
snow-besprent adj.
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1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iii. 118 Isles desolate and horrid, snow-besprent.
snow-besprinkled adj.
ΚΠ
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha ii. 30 From his snow-besprinkled tresses.
snow-blanketed adj.
ΚΠ
1971 R. Dentry Encounter at Kharmel ix. 151 The snow-blanketed hills.
snow-bowered adj.
ΚΠ
1919 W. de la Mare Flora 42 Still from the snow-bowered, link-lit street The muffled hooves of horses beat.
snow-capped adj.
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1797 J. Tweddell Rem. (1815) xxvii. 150 All the snow-capt hills of the canton of Berne.
1879 A. R. Wallace Australasia xii. 242 Its higher mountains are snow-capped.
snow-coloured adj.
ΚΠ
c1580 in P. M. Barnard's Catal. No. 30 (1909) 12 Thy trumpet..and thy snow colourd swan.
snow-covered adj.
ΚΠ
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV cxxxix, in Poems (1878) IV. 35 Soe may Thessalia..Envy the still Snow-Couer'd Rhodope.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxii. 218 Emerging from the snow-covered roof.
snow-crested adj.
ΚΠ
1845 J. Phillips & C. G. B. Daubeny Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 705/2 The snow-crested Alps.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 106 Those glorious mountains,..snow-crested and star-gemmed.
snow-crowned adj.
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1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars vi. lxiv. 147 From the snow-crown'd Skidos lofty cleeues.
1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 99 This fine chain of snow-crowned Alps.
snow-drifted adj.
ΚΠ
1853 J. S. C. Abbott in Harper's New Monthly Mag. June 58/2 The deficiency of accommodation for travelers on those bleak and snow-drifted heights.
snow-driven adj.
ΚΠ
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale vii. 225 A plume of snowe-drivn white.
snow-encircled adj.
ΚΠ
1808 W. Scott Marmion v. Introd. 228 Our snow-encircled home.
snow-feathered adj.
ΚΠ
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. E8v Snow-feath'red swan, the Nestor of the West.
snow-haired adj.
ΚΠ
1818 Bucke Italians iii. ii The snow-hair'd sire shall recognize his son.
snow-hung adj.
ΚΠ
1866 J. G. Whittier Snow-bound 99 Woods of snow-hung oak.
snow-impeded adj.
ΚΠ
1808 W. Scott Marmion v. Introd. 228 Carrier's snow-impeded wains.
snow-laden adj.
ΚΠ
1850 M. Fuller Woman in 19th Cent. (1862) 312 That..freezing, snow-laden winter.
snow-limbed adj.
ΚΠ
1646 H. More Democritus Platonissans 25 Fair comely bodies..Snow-limb'd, rose-cheek'd.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xviii. iii, in Maud & Other Poems 58 Shadowing the snow-limb'd Eve.
snow-lined adj.
ΚΠ
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. vii. 80 After a walk over a heavy snow-lined country of thirty miles.
snow-loaded adj.
ΚΠ
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 40 Yon huge snow-loaded cedar.
snow-mantled adj.
ΚΠ
1798 H. M. Williams Tour Switzerland II. App. 292 The modest, snow-mantled nymphs.
1884 Manch. Examiner 2 Sept. 5/1 As the ball..is rolled over the snow-mantled earth.
snow-moulded adj.
ΚΠ
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 35v His pure snow-moulded soft fleshe.
snow-resembled adj.
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1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 71 Theyr heads, with theyr..Snow-resembled siluer curlings.
snow-robed adj.
ΚΠ
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 134 Thine are the snow-robed mountains circling earth.
snow-scarred adj.
ΚΠ
1885 W. Black White Heather iii A large and fleecy cloud that clung around the snow-scarred peak.
snow-sprinkled adj.
ΚΠ
1898 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 55 On the snow-sprinkled braes of Yarrow.
snow-suited adj.
ΚΠ
1961 ‘E. Lathen’ Banking on Death ix. 71 Snowsuited toddlers frolicking merrily in the snow.
1971 A. Bailey In Village (1972) xix. 189 Snow~suited small children.
snow-tipped adj.
ΚΠ
1804 European Mag. 45 63/2 While, with snow-tipp'd feet, The..waves she sports among.
1883 F. S. Renwick Betrayed 36 One snow-tipped..feather graced his hair.
snow-topped adj.
ΚΠ
1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. R 2 From snow-topd Skidos frostie cleeues.
1747 J. Hawkesworth Winter in Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 588 The snow-topt cott, the frozen rill.
1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc 23 The snow-topped Apennines.
snow-whitened adj.
ΚΠ
1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. 33 A village,..Snow-whitened everywhere except the middle road.
snow-winged adj.
ΚΠ
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 70 O how I loue thee, My Snowe-winged Doue!
snow-wrought adj.
ΚΠ
1729 R. Savage Wanderer i. 55 His Robe snow-wrought, and hoar'd with Age.
(c)
snow-rub v.
ΚΠ
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxiv. 306 The crew have been snow-rubbing their blankets.
snow-swathe v.
ΚΠ
1843 R. Browning Return of Druses in Bells & Pomegranates No. IV ii Dost thou snow-swathe thee kinglier, Lebanon, Than in my dreams?
b. Objective.
(a)
snow-casting adj.
ΚΠ
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes (1877) 243 The snowe casting season nowe coming in place.
snow-clearing adj.
ΚΠ
1894 Westm. Gaz. 10 Jan. 5/1 He was in charge of the snow-clearing party.
snow-dropping adj.
ΚΠ
1838 J. Pardoe River & Desart II. 44 The majestic tamarind tree overshadowed the snow-dropping acacia.
snow-melting adj.
ΚΠ
1849 J. Forbes Physician's Holiday (1850) viii. 75 The waters..overflowed their banks during the snow-melting season.
snow-nodding adj.
ΚΠ
1757 J. Dyer Fleece iv. 143 White Imaus, whose snow-nodding craggs Frighten the realms beneath.
snow-passing adj.
ΚΠ
?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: Vaunt not in Poems Snow-passing Iuorie that the Eye delights.
snow-sweeping adj.
ΚΠ
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Snow-sweeping Engine, a plough or other contrivance for removing snow from railways and common roads.
1892 Daily News 21 Nov. 5/5 Matters..have reached such a point that snow-sweeping is the one harvest they hope for.
(b)
snow-blower n.
ΚΠ
1955 Hamilton (Ont.) Daily Spectator 25 Jan. 24/3 Street sweepers, snow blowers, and other city equipment stored outdoors at the Elgin Street yard.
1964 ‘S. Forbes’ Long Hate (1966) x. 92 ‘We'll have to shovel, I guess.’.. ‘Can't you use the snow blower?’
1978 Daily Tel. 1 Feb. 1/7 Extra snow-clearing equipment was being sent to the area and the RAF was bringing in a large snowblower from Switzerland.
snow-breaker n.
ΚΠ
1791 Ann. Agric. 16 431 The sheep are often obliged to procure their food by scraping the snow off the ground with their feet..; hence they have obtained the name of snow-breakers.
snow-clearer n.
ΚΠ
1963 Times 18 Feb. 4/1 The efforts of dedicated Kingsholm snow-clearers were rewarded, and the surface was unbelievably good in the circumstances.
snow-gatherer n.
snow-loader n.
ΚΠ
1963 Times 28 Jan. 9/6 Clearing is done by a continuous moving belt operation with a plough in front followed by a specially built snow loader which digs into drifts with rotating blades and funnels it into a line of waiting lorries.
snow-melter n.
ΚΠ
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxxi. 424 To reduce our effete snow-melter to its elements.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 Feb. 5/3 The combined snow loader and melter was designed by Metro roads department and consultants after testing a small 75-ton snow melter during the past three winters.
snow-scraper n.
ΚΠ
1851 in H. Greeley Recoll. Busy Life (1868) 559 We met with a bad accident..45 miles from Baltimore, our snow-scraper catching against some part of the track.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 826/2 Snow Scraper.
snow-shifter n.
ΚΠ
1962 Times 27 Nov. 13/3 A fleet of ‘Macks’—snow-shifters.
snow-shoveller n.
ΚΠ
1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 114 Two snow ploughs, and a gang of 75 snow shovellers.
snow-sweeper n.
ΚΠ
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2231/2 Snow-sweeper, a vehicle or apparatus adapted for removing snow from paved streets.
snow-thrower n.
ΚΠ
1966 Wall St. Jrnl. 28 Dec. 1/4 The power~driven snowblower (or snowthrower, if you prefer), a gadget with reel-type blades that chew through the snow and push it into a chute, from whence it's blown aside.
1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. (Gardening Guide) 6 (advt.) Attachments include 60-inch rotary mower, 48-inch snow thrower, [etc.].
c. With adjectives, chiefly in the sense of ‘as or like snow’.
snow-bright adj.
ΚΠ
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie Prelim. Verses Whose snow~bright skil by snow procurde the Fates to hast thy fate.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna xii. xli. 270 I saw its marge of snow-bright mountains rear Their peaks aloft.
snow-brilliant adj.
ΚΠ
1853 F. W. Newman tr. Horace Odes 148 The slave Briséis With hue snowbrilliant.
snow-clear adj.
ΚΠ
1925 E. Sitwell et al. Poor Young People 15 Or peck Anne's snow-clear cheek.
snow-cool adj.
ΚΠ
1919 R. Graves Treasure Box 11 Where Sweetheart, my brown mare,..May loll her leathern tongue In snow-cool water.
1964 J. Michie tr. Horace Odes i. xii. 41 The snow-cool shoulder Of Haemus.
snow-deep adj.
ΚΠ
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 328 Mr. Hyde seldom corn feeds, unless turnips are rotten or snow deep.
1920 T. S. Eliot Ara Vos Prec 25 Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps.
snow-fair adj.
ΚΠ
1895 A. Nutt Happy Otherworld v, in K. Meyer tr. Voy. Bran I. 176 Snowfair the bodies from top to toe.
snow-proof adj.
ΚΠ
1972 ‘M. Yorke’ Silent Witness ii. 26 A small figure lightly encased in snow~proof garments.
1978 J. Cowley in Islands (N.Z.) Aug. 25 Padded nylon windbreakers and snow-proof pants.
snow-pure adj.
ΚΠ
1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes Introd., in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 4/1 One flash Of the pale, snow-pure cheek and blacker tresses.
snow-soft adj.
ΚΠ
1596 W. Smith Chloris (1877) 8 Tripping vpon the snowe soft downes I spide Three nimphs.
1673 J. Milton On Death Fair Infant iii, in Poems (new ed.) 18 Down he descended from his Snow-soft chaire.
1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty xvi. 54 Far from snow-soft sleep.
1959 E. Pound Thrones civ. 92 The small breasts snow-soft over tripod.
snow-still adj.
ΚΠ
1867 G. Gilfillan Night i. 12 With the Snow-still foot of thought.
C4.
a. Special combinations.† snow-blossom n. Obsolete a snowflake.† snow-fire n. Obsolete (see quot.). † snow-stone n. Obsolete (see quot. 1753).
snow-belt n. [belt n.1 10b] U.S. a region subject to heavy snowfalls; also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > in relation to climate or weather conditions > specific
temperate zone1556
horse latitudes1777
sunland1827
iceland1842
pole of cold1850
storm-area1853
cloud-belt1860
cloud-ring1860
snow-belt1874
taiga1888
storm-zone1889
storm-belt1891
cold pole1909
icebox1909
1874 Los Angeles County Ten Thousand Questions Answered 11/1 There are two great continental railroad routes within the snowbelt.
1933 Amer. City Sept. 53/1 Old-fashioned winters have not been as prevalent in the snow belt in the last few years as they were ten or twenty years ago.
1967 Wall St. Jrnl. 1 Feb. 1/4 Some makers predict snowmobile sales soon will surpass boat sales in snowbelt states.
1981 Nordic Skiing Jan. 39/1 Thanks to a 120–140 inch snowbelt location, Temple Mountain offers skiing from early December to mid-April.
snow-blanket n. (see quots.).
ΚΠ
1863 D. Page Introd. Text-bk. Physical Geogr. 154 In the higher latitudes,..snow forms a warm covering for the soil (the snow-blanket, as it is termed by farmers).
snow-blink n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1863 D. Page Introd. Text-bk. Physical Geogr. 154 Within the polar circle, also, the darkness of the long winter is..diminished by the snow-sheen or snow-blink.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > snowflake
flotherc1275
flawc1325
flakec1384
flaught1483
flight1483
snow-blossom1676
snowflake1734
flaughen1811
spangle1862
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 734 As hard..as to shew a specifical difference betwixt several Snow-blossoms.
snow-bones n. dialect (see quots.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > a covering of snow > patches left after a thaw
snow-bonesa1800
a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Snow-bones, remnants of snow after a thaw.
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 416 Snow-bones, the patches of snow seen stretching along ridges, in ruts, or in furrows, &c., after a partial thaw.
snow-break n. (a) a rush of loose or melting snow; (b) a narrow strip of forest serving as a protection against snow; (c) the breaking of trees by the weight of snow; an area over which this happens.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > (area of) destruction of trees by snow or wind
wood-sear1570
snow-break1837
wind-slash1866
windthrow1939
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > rush of loose or melting snow
snow-break1837
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > belt or line of trees > serving as screen or border
shawa1563
screenc1660
snow-break1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. iv. 353 And so, like snowbreak from the mountains,..it storms.
1895 W. R. Fisher tr. Hess Forest Protection 482 The term snow~break is used to denote the breakage of stems or branches.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 21 Snowbreak. 1. The breaking of trees by snow. 2. An area on which trees have been broken by snow. 3. Shelterbelt.
1928 R. S. Troup Silvicultural Syst. v. 70 Its uneven-aged condition up to the pole stage is considered to be a protection against both snowbreak and sliding snow on steep hill-sides.
1933 Forestry 7 146 In spite of the relatively high elevation there was no indication of snowbreak.
snow-bucking n. U.S. the action of forcing a railway train through a snowdrift.
ΚΠ
1885 Longman's Mag. Feb. 422 ‘Snow Bucking’ in the Rocky Mountains.
snow bunny n. North American slang an inexperienced (usually female) skier; a pretty girl who frequents ski slopes.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > skier > types of
ski-jorer1936
ski bunny1952
snow bunny1953
alpinist1957
roller skier1957
schussboomer1959
sit-skier1981
heli-skier1983
snowblader1997
1953 P. C. Berg Dict. New Words 147/2 Snow bunny,..n. Skiing. A beginner, esp. a girl.
1964 Star Weekly (Toronto) 19 Dec. 39/1 December used to be a dull month, but that was before our pretty Canadian snow bunnies..started brightening up the Canadian snow scene.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 49/6 ‘Watching you for only two runs, I can see you're not just a ‘snow bunny’, Coral!’ ‘No, I was on the women's ski-team at college.’
1972 P. A. Whitney Snowfire (1973) vi. 100 Snow bunny..was a term applied to beginners, usually female, who haunted the slopes.
snow-cone n. U.S. (see quot. 1969); also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > water-ice
water-ice1789
snowball1894
shave ice1953
snow-cone1969
1969 Daily Tel. 6 June 18 A snowcone is a paper cup of flavoured shaved ice, highly popular among children.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 4 July 2- b/4 The Jolly Wagons had competition in those days from a snow~cone vendor driving an identical Cushman which contained only ice and flavored syrups.
snow course n. a line along which the depth of snow is periodically sampled at fixed points.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > study or science of specific conditions or phenomena > [noun] > study of ice and snow > line along which snow depth sampled
snow course1933
1933 Geogr. Rev. 23 540 It was only necessary to maintain a series of measurements carefully taken in the same spot each year. These measurements, laid out at definite intervals.., were named ‘snow courses’.
1965 R. G. Kazmann Mod. Hydrol. ii. 36 This type of measurement, made at frequent intervals over very elaborately organized snow courses..is the accepted practical method of measuring solid-state precipitation.
snow-craft n. the art of traversing or dealing with snow in mountaineering.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > skill
rockwork1864
rock craft1892
snow-craft1892
rope-work1901
1892 C. T. Dent et al. Mountaineering (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 217 Snowcraft consists largely in the avoidance of difficulties and dangers.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 23 It [mountaineering] consists of two main divisions, rock-craft and snow-craft.
snow-creep n. the gradual movement of snow down a slope.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > rush of loose or melting snow > gradual movement
snow-creep1908
1908 Science 28 Feb. 339 Small trees are directly broken and abraded by weight of snow or by snow creep.
snow-cripple n. a tree injured by the weight or pressure of snow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by quality or health > [noun] > damaged or injured
frost split1753
snow-cripple1908
1908 Science 28 Feb. 339 Snow-cripples possess the spire-form, with flourishing upper shoots, but the lower branches and foliage are dying or dead.
snow cruiser n. North American a motor vehicle designed to travel over snow; spec. (with capital initials) a Canadian proprietary term for a type of motorized toboggan; also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicles with other means of motion > [noun] > tracked vehicle > tracked or partially tracked vehicle for snow
snowmobile1931
snow cruiser1939
snow plane1953
skimobile1955
snowcat1955
snow machine1973
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicles with other means of motion > [noun] > tracked vehicle > tracked or partially tracked vehicle for snow > proprietary
snow cruiser1939
Sno-cat1946
Skidoo1961
1939 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Nov. 11/3 A twenty-seven-ton snow cruiser..designed to serve as an igloo on wheels to help the forces inspect vast areas of unexplored ice and snow.
1956 Canad. Trade Mark 102,409 13 Jan. Wares: Small engine driven snow remover. Trade Mark: Snow-Cruiser.
1966 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Sept. 79/3 Outboard Marine makes..Snow Cruiser..a small motorized toboggan on rubber tires and skis, a variation of the original snowmobile invented by Armand Bombardier of Quebec ten years ago.
1969 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 14 A tent of this type would be ideal for sportsmen, hunters and Snowcruiser enthusiasts.
snow-cruising n. also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > riding in other snow vehicles
snowmobiling1964
skidooing1966
snow-cruising1966
1966 Brit. Columbia Digest Dec. 10 (advt.) '67 is the big year for snow cruising..and you have 3 fabulous OMC Snow Cruisers to choose from!
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Jan. 24/3 (advt.) Wonderful snow-cruising parklands.
snow devil n. a column of snow whirled round by the wind (cf. devil n. 12).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > the falling of snow > snow-storm > whirling
tourmente1847
snow devil1932
1932 F. Smythe Kamet Conquered xii. 169 From the serene skyline of Meade's Col little ‘snow devils’ were rising against the deepening green of the evening sky.
1962 W. H. Murray Maelstrom xiv. 183 Whirling snow-devils came charging across the plateau, driving spiculae in their faces.
snow-dropper n. Cant = snow-gatherer n. ( Slang Dict. 1864).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > of linen from line or hedge
snow-dropper1847
snow-gatherer1859
strip bush1864
1847 G. W. M. Reynolds Myst. London III. xxix. 85/1 A stranger looked like a snow-dropper.
1963 T. Morris & P. Morris Pentonville viii. 190 The larcenist who steals feminine underwear from clothes~lines (the ‘snowdropper’) is often a pathetic object of derision and contempt.
1977 Western Mail (Cardiff) 5 Mar. 8/1 A ‘snowdropper’ is a man who steals women's underwear.
snow-dropping n. Cant (see quots.); also as gerund.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun] > linen from line or hedge
snow-dropping1839
1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 165/2 Snow-dropping, stealing linen off a hedge.
1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 9/2 Dick's a broker and has gone out snow-dropping.
1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Mar. 23/2 Cattle-duffing is as far removed from sheep-stealing as expert forgery is from snow-dropping among suburban clotheslines.
1967 Telegraph (Brisbane) 1 Mar. 26/4 Patfield had set out last November to steal sheets, but in the most systematic manner of ‘snow dropping’ (clothes~line thefts) he had stolen everything he could find.
1972 Observer 31 Dec. 3/4 He couldn't resist the temptation to go ‘snow dropping’ (stealing clothes from lines).
snow-eater n. [translating German schneefresser] Meteorology a warm wind, esp. a föhn, that causes rapid melting of snow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > hot or warm wind
hot gleam1601
bloom1697
snow-eater1886
1886 Science 12 Mar. 242/2 Warm west winds answering to the ‘Chinook’ winds occur as far south as southern Colorado, though I have seldom heard the name ‘Chinook’ applied to them in this region. They are here [i.e. in Colorado Springs] often called Pacific winds, also ‘snow-eaters’ and ‘zephyrs’.
1933 F. H. Cheley Camping Out 197 It was the Chinook wind... The Indians call it the ‘snow eater’.
1967 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Atmospheric Sci. & Astrogeol. 1151/2 The rapid melting of the snow caused by the chinook (‘Snow-eater’) is welcomed because it frees the higher pastures.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > meteor > [noun]
drakec1275
dragon1398
falling stara1475
starn-shot1513
dancing-goats1563
firedrake1563
meteor1594
shooting star1597
goat1614
shooter1633
shot star1633
phasm1656
snow-fire1771
meteorite1823
asteroid1830
cometoid1861
exhalation1871
1771 J. R. Forster tr. P. Kalm Trav. N. Amer. II. 81 We observed a meteor, commonly called a snow-fire. [Note] Probably nothing but an Aurora borealis.
snow-foot n. (a) an accumulation of snow at the foot of steep Arctic sea-coasts; (b) a foot adapted for walking on snow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > land ice > [noun] > accumulation at foot of arctic sea-coast
snow-foot1881
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > foot adapted for walking on snow
snow-foot1881
snow-shoe foot1894
1881 A. Leslie tr. A. E. Nordenskiöld Voy. Vega I. ii. 75 A steep escarpment..below which there is formed during the course of the winter an immense snow-drift or so-called ‘snow-foot’.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 11 Mar. 4/2 This peculiarity of ‘snow-feet’ is not so well marked as in the reindeer or caribou.
snow-gatherer n. Cant (see quot. 1859).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > of linen from line or hedge
snow-dropper1847
snow-gatherer1859
strip bush1864
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 97 Snow gatherers, rogues who steal linen from hedges and lines.
snow grain n. Meteorology a small, opaque, precipitated ice particle, usually flattened and less than 1 mm. in diameter, that does not bounce on a hard surface; cf. snow pellet n.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > hail > [noun] > soft hail > soft hailstone
snow pellet1935
snow grain1944
1944 H. R. Byers Gen. Meteorol. vi. 125 Granular snow, snow grains... White, opaque, snow~like grains, similar to soft hail but more or less flattened or oblong.
1967 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Atmospheric Sci. & Astrogeol. 772/1 Snow grains..neither bounce nor break when hitting the ground.
snow gun n. U.S. = snow-maker n.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > making a snow-like precipitate > device for
snow-maker1955
snow gun1971
1971 Industr. & Engin. Chem. Process Design & Devel. 10 75/1 To cover a bare ski slope, 10 to 15 commercial snow guns (nozzles in which water and air are combined, usually at 100 psig) are used.
1974 Compressed Air Apr. 9/1 The snow-guns are ‘very efficient, inexpensive and can be moved easily’.
snow-hole n. (a) a hole or opening in the burner of a pyrites kiln; (b) a hole in snow used as a temporary shelter.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > kiln > [noun] > part of pyrites kiln
snow-hole1880
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > against weather or storms > others
windscreen1671
paragrêle1830
weather-wall1838
paragrandine1842
ombrifuge1869
snow-hole1880
wind-break1894
storm-flap1929
trog1958
1880 J. Lomas Man. Alkali Trade 48 So adjusted..that..the tongues of flame just show a decided direction towards the exit, or ‘snow’ hole.
1953 P. Provancher I live in Woods vii. 64 To make a snow hole, dig to a depth of five feet at the foot of a steep incline or cliff.
1965 B. E. Freeman tr. A. Vandel Biospeleol. xiii. 195 Nivicoles, the inhabitants of snow~holes.
1978 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 May 7/8 The six men and three women spent..three nights in snow~holes—man-made snow caves—before reaching..the summit.
snow-house n. (a) a house in which snow is preserved in warm weather; (b) a house or hut built of snow.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > storehouse > for ice or snow
conservatory1626
snow-house1662
ice house1666
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > made of ice or snow
ice house1788
snow-house1827
igloo1856
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 303 Having made as much [ice] as they desire, they..put it up into Snow-Houses, whereof there are so many at Ispahan.
1827 J. Holmes Hist. United Brethren (ed. 2) ii. 80 The Esquimaux now began to build a snow-house, about thirty paces from the beach.
1881 J. Geikie Prehist. Europe 19 He may even have occupied temporary snow-houses, like those made by the Eskimo.
snow job n. slang (originally U.S.) a concerted attempt at flattery, deception, or persuasion; also attributive.
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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > wheedling, coaxing, or cajoling > an act of
wheedle1668
cajole1719
ablandishment1728
snow job1943
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > speech intended to deceive > [noun]
falsiloquence1710
fanny1930
snow job1943
snow-jobbing1966
1943 Amer. Mercury Nov. 555 There he tries a snow job on her (hands her a line) and if she falls for it she's been snowed under.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xx. 192 He..made a bee-line for the red-head. ‘Now for the snow job,’ Geechi murmured.
1966 S. Morrow Moonlighters (1967) v. 53 Possibly her scepticism accounted for her success with the teenagers…kids were most apt to trust the adults who were immune to a snow job.
1969 C. F. Burke God is Beautiful, Man (1970) 52 It's better to say yes or no and mean it—than to give a lot of snow job promises anyway.
1979 D. Robinson Eldorado Network xliii. 291 I just saw you do another snow job. You were in North Wales..which is why it sounds so convincing. Nice try, Luis.
snow-job v. (transitive) to do a snow job on (someone).
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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > wheedle, coax, or cajole
fleechc1425
coyc1490
flatter?a1513
cuittlec1565
smooth1584
ingle1602
cajole1645
collogue1660
wheedle1661
coax1663
to wheedle with1664
to cajole with1665
manage1677
whilly1721
carney1811
whillywha1816
canoodle1864
patise1891
schmear1910
sweet-talk1936
soft-talk1946
snow-job1962
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > speech intended to deceive > beguile, cajole [verb (transitive)]
bicharrea1100
fodea1375
begoc1380
inveiglea1513
to hold in halsc1560
to get within ——1572
cajole1645
to cajole with1665
butter1725
veigle1745
flummer1764
to get round ——1780
to come round ——1784
to get around ——1803
flatter-blind1818
salve1825
to come about1829
round1854
canoodle1864
moody1934
fanny1938
cosy1939
mamaguy1939
snow1943
snow-job1962
1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xxi. 155 Are you going to snow-job me about finding substitutes?
snow-jobbing n. the performing of a snow job.
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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > wheedling, coaxing, or cajoling
blandishingc1305
flatteryc1320
blandishc1475
fleechingc1480
coying1580
blandishment1591
suppalpation1634
cajolery1649
wheedling1668
coaxing1672
cajolingc1724
cajolement1816
plámás1853
fleechment1886
sloothering1892
wheedlery1909
snow-jobbing1966
sweet-talking1981
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > speech intended to deceive > [noun]
falsiloquence1710
fanny1930
snow job1943
snow-jobbing1966
1966 National Observer (U.S.) 19 Dec. 12/2 Democratic county chairmen hereabouts have, of necessity, worked out a terrific combination of railroading, arm twisting, and snow jobbing, not necessarily involving consent or persuasion.
snow-limit n. the limit (towards the equator) for the fall of snow at sea-level.
snow machine n. North American a motor vehicle designed to travel over snow; also attributive.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicles with other means of motion > [noun] > tracked vehicle > tracked or partially tracked vehicle for snow
snowmobile1931
snow cruiser1939
snow plane1953
skimobile1955
snowcat1955
snow machine1973
1973 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 14 Jan. 15/7 Roads are not for snowmobiles—the snow machines and other vehicles using the highways simply do not mix.
1976 News Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska) 6 Nov. b17/2 Snow machine driving, in which participants may cross miles of wintry terrain on a weekend outing.
1977 New Yorker 4 July 42/1 Their snow machine—Ski-Doo Alpine—rests on the floor below the furs. It goes ten miles an hour on the trail, and the two of them ride it.
snow-maker n. originally U.S. a device used for the artificial production of a snow-like precipitate for ski-slopes and the like; also one who makes snow by the use of such a device.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > making a snow-like precipitate > device for
snow-maker1955
snow gun1971
1955 N.Y. Times 30 Jan. ii. 31/4 The snow makers provided a long-needed answer on how to cope with the snowless situation..in the Southern Catskills.
1963 Engineering 13 Sept. 321/3 Snow-makers mix air and water under pressure and blow the resulting mixture in dense 50 ft arcs.
1965 Economist 25 Dec. 1416/1 While the rainmakers have been failing, for a decade or more the snowmakers have been succeeding beyond their wildest dreams and as a result..more American skiers than ever are assured of at least enough snow to try out the new skis which they have been given for Christmas.
1980 J. Krantz Princess Daisy xxvi. 461 The snow-making machines had started... The snow~makers continued to cover the path.
snow-making n. and adj.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > making a snow-like precipitate
snow-making1954
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [adjective] > making snow-like precipitate
snow-making1954
1954 U.S. Pat. 2,676,471 7 At an ambient temperature of 31°F and less, snow has been made at any pressure from 25 to 200 lbs. per square inch by varying the water pressure to give a snow making mixture.
1956 Compressed Air Mag. 61 101/3 Snow-making at Fahnestock consists..of bringing compressed air and water together at a nozzle that acts in the same manner as a paint spray gun.
1960 N.Y. Herald-Tribune 13 Nov. vii. 8/1 Across the country..dozens of snow-making machines are poised, ready to transform bare hillsides into Alpine paradises.
1976 ‘A. Cross’ Question of Max i. 8 There is a damn snow~making machine on some blasted ski slope.
snow-melt n. the melting of fallen snow; also, the water that results.
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the world > the earth > water > [noun] > water from melted snow or ice
snow-broth1600
snow-melt1927
meltwater1932
the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of melting > [noun] > thawing
thawingc1325
under-thaw1726
snow-melt1927
1927 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 83 167 We arrived just as the spring snow-melt was finishing.
1941 Yearbk. Agric. 1941 (U.S.) 560 In cleared areas snow depths are intermediate..and snow melt is rapid.
1971 W. Hillen Blackwater River ii. 16 Snowmelt starting to run from exposed mountain slopes.
1979 Field 17 Oct. 1048/3 So far as rainfall is concerned,..the total amount of this element..in meteorological records includes snowmelt.
snow-merchant n. one who deals in snow (for cooling purposes).
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1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 243 The Banditti..often put the Snow-Merchants under Contribution.
snowpack n. U.S. lying snow that is compressed and hardened by its own weight.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > a fall of snow > types of fallen snow
mountain snow1567
red snow1678
poudre1846
firn1853
powder snow1914
powder1931
boilerplate1937
snowpack1952
crud1961
tracking snow1971
1952 Trans. Amer. Geophysical Union XXXIII. 874 The water equivalent of the seasonal snow pack was observed after individual falls.
1955 Sci. News Let. 1 Oct. 214/3 Winter snowpack is the source of 40% of California's streamflow.
1973 R. Hayes Hungarian Game xxxvi. 215 Beneath the thin, brittle crust there was an inch of powder before the snowpack.
snow pellet n. Meteorology an opaque precipitated ice particle, usually a few millimetres in diameter, that will bounce on a hard surface; a soft hailstone; cf. snow grain n.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > hail > [noun] > soft hail > soft hailstone
snow pellet1935
snow grain1944
1935 Jrnl. Faculty Sci. Hokkaido Imp. Univ. 2nd Ser. 1 215 The snow pellet or the graupel..is one of the modified forms of snow crystal.
1967 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Atmospheric Sci. & Astrogeol. 442/2 Small hail, under 5 mm, is officially classified as ice pellets or snow pellets.
snow plane n. North American a type of snowmobile that is mounted on skis and propelled by an engine-driven propeller.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicles with other means of motion > [noun] > tracked vehicle > tracked or partially tracked vehicle for snow
snowmobile1931
snow cruiser1939
snow plane1953
skimobile1955
snowcat1955
snow machine1973
1953 R. Moon This is Saskatchewan ii. 9 Bob Fudge's manufacturing is not confined to snow planes.
1967 E. B. Nickerson Kayaks to Arctic xix. 186 He had a snow plane—an enclosed cabin on ski runners shoved along by an aeroplane propeller in the fashion of an Everglades swamp buggy.
1972 T. McHugh Time of Buffalo xii. 145 We rented two snowplanes for a trip into the snow-bound heartland of Yellowstone Park.
Snow Queen n. the chief character in a fairy-tale of this name by Hans Christian Andersen, used allusively to designate a cold-hearted woman; also attributive.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling > person > woman
ice maiden1847
ice queen1854
Snow Queen1935
1935 N. Marsh & H. Jellett Nursing-home Murder vi. 75 A very cold fishy sort of lady... A Snow Queen, in fact.
1974 L. Deighton Spy Story xi. 111 She gave me the inscrutable Snow-queen smile.
1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 14 Charlotte was a Snow Queen who flirted coldly and shamelessly with her son.
snow-raking n. New Zealand (see quots.).
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1919 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 20 Feb. 90 After a heavy snowfall..send out as many men as can be got together..to get the sheep on to the sunny faces, where a certain amount of thaw may have taken place... This is what is generally known as ‘snow-raking’.
1958 J. Pascoe N.Z. Sheep-Station in People of World 1st Ser. 19 Then the men must stamp out a trail through the snow—a job called ‘snow-raking’—and lead the sheep down to the valley flats.
snow-ripple n. a ripple-mark formed in snow.
snow roller n. a cylinder of snow formed by the action of the wind rolling it along.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > an accumulation or expanse of snow > other formations
sastruga1840
snow roller1866
penitent1887
Penitente1887
1866 G. J. Symons Brit. Rainfall p. vii Snow Rollers... The snow ripples up.., and the ripples breaking into sections, the wind rolls each..until, just like a..snow-ball, they rapidly increase in size.
1876 Meteorol. Mag. 11 52 This is the first instance recorded of the formation of ‘Snow Rollers’ in England.
1959 Weatherwise XII. 63/2 The area cleared of snow during the formation of snow rollers is usually V-shaped, accounting for their peculiar shape, which is cylindrical with concave ends.
snow-scape n. a snow scene, a landscape covered with snow.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > a fall of snow > landscape covered with snow
snow scene1836
snow-scape1886
1886 Christian Leader 17 June Charmed by the beauty of the snow-scape, with the feathery flakes clinging to the twigs.
1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 372 The unaccustomed eye is fairly bewildered with the strange pale beauty of the snow-scape.
snow scene n. a landscape covered with snow.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > a fall of snow > landscape covered with snow
snow scene1836
snow-scape1886
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > landscape-painting > a landscape or view > type of
paysage1611
winter piece1612
rockscape1754
pastoral1798
skyscape1811
snow scene1836
icescape1839
cloudscape1868
townscape1880
winterscape1884
treescape1885
farmscape1886
cowscape1896
roadscape1899
cityscape1915
dunescape1928
slumscape1947
hellscape1959
jungle-scape1973
1836 H. C. Robinson Diary 15 Jan. (1967) 152 I found a snow scene quite pleasant in this mountainous country.
1921 R. Fry Let. 14 Dec. (1972) II. 518 A stupendous Courbet snow scene.
1978 ‘L. Black’ Foursome i. 6 It was incongruous against the background of..correspondence files..stacks of catalogues, the snow-scene on the calendar.
snow-sheen n. = snow-blink n.
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1863 D. Page Introd. Text-bk. Physical Geogr. 154 Within the polar circle, also, the darkness of the long winter is..diminished by the snow-sheen or snow-blink.
snow-ski v. (intransitive) .
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > ski [verb (intransitive)]
ski1893
snow-ski1975
1975 New Yorker 1 Sept. 28/1 You don't play tennis, you don't snow-ski, you don't water-ski, you don't ride a bicycle... Albert, we have nothing in common.
snow-skier n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > skier
ski-runner1887
skier1895
skister1898
snow-skier1941
1941 Life 4 Aug. 55/2 (caption) Bending her knees like a snow skier, Hallie rides over the wake.
snow-skiing n. = skiing n. 1, opposed to water-skiing.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun]
ski-running1854
skiing1893
snow-skiing1941
1941 Life 4 Aug. 54 Combining aquaplaning and snow skiing, water-skiing was imported from the Riviera several years ago.
1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. xii. 33/3 (advt.) We're looking for a bright, enthusiastic gal, who knows the retail clothing business, especially snow skiing attire.
snow-sleep n. a somnolent condition induced by walking in snow.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [noun] > specific types
Endymiony1600
oscitancy1609
narcotism1843
hypnotism1860
snow-sleepiness1896
snow-sleep1901
1901 Wide World Mag. 6 456/2 He had been overcome by that worst of all enemies to the Australian Alpine traveller—snow-sleep.
snow-sleepiness n.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [noun] > specific types
Endymiony1600
oscitancy1609
narcotism1843
hypnotism1860
snow-sleepiness1896
snow-sleep1901
1896 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Sowers xxxii It was quite dark,..and I had snow-sleepiness.
snow-snake n. (also snow-snakes) North American ‘an Indian game played with a straight wooden rod having a weighted head resembling that of a snake, this rod being slid over a smooth field of snow or down specially constructed runways; the rod used in this game’ ( Dict. Canadianisms).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > other snow sports > [noun]
snow-snake1844
snow-shoeing1884
snowmobiling1964
ski-bobbing1966
tubing1975
snow-snaking1979
snowboard cross1996
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > other snow sports > [noun] > equipment
snow-snake1844
ski-bob1966
snowboard1983
1844 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 1 327 They [sc. Cherokee Indians]..in winter amuse themselves with their snow-snakes, which are long smooth sticks of hard wood..which they send to an extraordinary distance over the smooth surface of the snow.
1889 Trans. Royal Soc. Canada 1888 6 ii. 44 If this is the game spoken of by other writers as ‘Snow-snakes’, there is nothing in the [Wabanaki] name to so indicate.
1959 E. Tunis Indians 56/2 Snow snake was played by all the northern tribes on a level track made by dragging a log or a boy through the snow.
1973 M. R. Crowell Greener Pastures 81 The wall photograph..of Indians playing the venerable game of snow~snake.
1978 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 11 Feb. a8/1 The snow snake is a smooth, thin stick about 2m long. It is thrown along a crust of smooth, hard snow. The player whose snake slides the farthest is the winner.
snow-snaking n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > other snow sports > [noun]
snow-snake1844
snow-shoeing1884
snowmobiling1964
ski-bobbing1966
tubing1975
snow-snaking1979
snowboard cross1996
1979 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 1 Feb. 9/1 It is called snow-snaking and the Mohawk Indians have played it for centuries. It is not recognized at the Canada Winter Games but maybe it will some day.
snow-sports n. sports that take place on snow, spec. skiing; also attributive.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > [noun]
winter sport1699
winter game1731
ice sport1841
snow-sports1966
1905 Country Life Dec. 181 (heading) Practical side of snow and ice sports.]
1966 Guardian 15 Oct. 5/2 (advt.) Snowsports. 2 weeks including full-board £29.15.0!
1974 Country Life 3–10 Jan. 52/1 (advt.) Off~season winter rates..for skiers and snow-sports enthusiasts.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Snow~stone,..a name given by some to a very beautiful stone found in America; of which the Spaniards are very fond.
snow-tan n. a tanned complexion produced by exposure to snow.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > tan > [noun]
tanning1598
sunburntness1692
tawn1744
tan1749
sunniness1753
suntan1809
tannage1845
snow-tan1901
sea-tan1902
perma-tan1984
1901 Wide World Mag. 6 458/2 Almost unrecognisable from snow-tan and exposure.
snow-time n. the time of snow, winter.
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the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > winter
midwinterOE
wintertideOE
winterOE
wintertimea1398
hiemsc1450
snow-time1535
dead of winter1548
after-winter1593
back-winter1599
snow1778
ice queen1818
old-fashioned winter1829
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xxiii. 20 Benaia..slewe a lyon at a well in the snowe tyme.
1844 R. M. Milnes Palm Leaves ii. 17 In the bleak snow-time, when the winds rung shrill.
b. In names of animals, insects, etc.
snow bear n. a buff or brown bear, Ursus arctos isabellinus, found in the Himalayan region.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Ursus > ursus arctos > other types of
Barren-Ground bear1829
snow bear1869
Kodiak1899
1869 A. A. A. Kinloch Large Game Shooting I. xv. 46 The Snow Bear varies a good deal in size.
1884 R. A. Sterndale Nat. Hist. Mammalia India & Ceylon 111 The bear of which we have the oldest record is almost the same as our Indian or Snow Bear.
1898 Guide Galleries Mammalia Dept. Zool. Brit. Mus. (ed. 6) 44 The Brown Bear... The nearly allied Kashmir Snow-Bear.
1910 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 433/2 One of them..got three really good heads, and two snow-bears, in one day.
snow-camel n. the Bactrian camel, Camelus bactrianus.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Camelidae (camel) > [noun] > genus Camelus > camelus ferus (two-humped camel)
Bactrian1601
snow-camel1901
1901 R. Kipling Kim viii, in McClure's Mag. May 65/2 Nor is even a Balkh stallion..of any account in the great Northern deserts beside the snow camels I have seen.
snow-fish n. (?).
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1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 164 Not cribbled up like a snow-fish, chucked out on the ice of the river St. Lawrence.
snow-flea n. = snow-fly n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by habitat or breeding place > that frequents snow
snow-fly1668
snow-flea1850
snow-gnat1891
snow-insect1891
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > miscellaneous types > member of genus Achorutes
snow-flea1850
1850 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 16 Dec. (1990) III. 164 The snow everywhere was covered with snow-fleas like pepper.
1868 Amer. Naturalist 2 53 The little insects called snow-fleas..are found in winter at the foot of trees.
1888 J. H. Comstock Introd. Entomol. 61 Our common snow-flea is Achorutes nivicola. This is sometimes a pest where maple sugar is made, the insects collecting..in the sap.
1943 B. Damon Sense of Humus 106 Snow fleas..have a disagreeable habit of putting an end to their brief existence by drowning themselves in sap buckets.
snow-fly n. one or other of several species of small insects frequenting snow (also, an artificial fly used in angling); esp. one of the genus Achorutes.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by habitat or breeding place > that frequents snow
snow-fly1668
snow-flea1850
snow-gnat1891
snow-insect1891
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of
moor flylOE
drake-flya1450
dub-flya1450
dun cut1496
dun fly1496
louper1496
red fly1616
moorish fly1635
palmer1653
palmer fly1653
red hackle1653
red palmer1653
shell-fly1653
orange fly1662
blackfly1669
dun1676
dun hackle1676
hackle1676
mayfly1676
peacock fly1676
thorn-tree fly1676
turkey-fly1676
violet-fly1676
whirling dun1676
badger fly1681
greenfly1686
moorish brown1689
prime dun1696
sandfly1700
grey midge1724
whirling blue1747
dun drake?1758
death drake1766
hackle fly1786
badger1787
blue1787
brown-fly1787
camel-brown1787
spinner1787
midge1799
night-fly1799
thorn-fly1799
turkey1799
withy-fly1799
grayling fly1811
sun fly1820
cock-a-bondy1835
brown moth1837
bunting-lark fly1837
governor1837
water-hen hackle1837
Waterloo fly1837
coachman1839
soldier palmer1839
blue jay1843
red tag1850
canary1855
white-tip1856
spider1857
bumble1859
doctor1860
ibis1863
Jock Scott1866
eagle1867
highlander1867
jay1867
John Scott1867
judge1867
parson1867
priest1867
snow-fly1867
Jack Scott1874
Alexandra1875
silver doctor1875
Alexandra fly1882
grackle1894
grizzly queen1894
heckle-fly1897
Zulu1898
thunder and lightning1910
streamer1919
Devon1924
peacock1950
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 48 Oripæ,..Snow-Flies.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling x. 333 There is a singular fly used on the Beauly, which is there termed the snow fly.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 491 In America we find that these little creatures [sc. spring-tails] are at this day called snow-flies.
1894 Amateur Gardening 3 Mar. 422 The insects..are known as the Cabbage Powder Wing or Snow Flies (Aleyrodes proletella).
snow-gnat n. = snow-fly n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by habitat or breeding place > that frequents snow
snow-fly1668
snow-flea1850
snow-gnat1891
snow-insect1891
1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Snow-gnat.
snow-insect n. = snow-fly n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by habitat or breeding place > that frequents snow
snow-fly1668
snow-flea1850
snow-gnat1891
snow-insect1891
1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Snow-insect.
snow-leopard n. the ounce.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Panthera > panthera uncia (snow-leopard)
ounce1774
snow-leopard1866
snow-panther1884
1866 A. Murray Geogr. Distrib. Mammals 99 The Ounce or Snow Leopard represents the Leopard in the high regions of Thibet.
1902 T. W. Webber Forests Upper India vi. 54 Prowling snow leopards, white like the weather-beaten rock.
snow-mouse n. (see quots.).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > genus Microtus
economic rat1781
snow-mousec1880
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > other types of
snow-mousec1880
c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 117 The Snow Mouse (Arvicola nivalis), lives on the Alps and Pyrenees, at elevations of 4,000 feet and upwards.
1891 Cent. Dict. Snow-mouse,..a lemming of arctic America which turns white in winter, Cuniculus torquatus.
snow-panther n. the ounce.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Panthera > panthera uncia (snow-leopard)
ounce1774
snow-leopard1866
snow-panther1884
1884 R. A. Sterndale Nat. Hist. Mammalia India & Ceylon 184 The Ounce or Snow Panther.
snow-wolf n. a wolf that lives in snowy regions; the (imitation) fur of this animal.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of wolf
wolfskina1425
wolf1805
snow-wolf1910
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > defined by habitat or condition
bag-wolf1862
snow-wolf1910
1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars 192 So brave are these snow-wolves.
1976 Sunday Mail (Glasgow) 28 Nov. 46/1 (advt.) De luxe heavy pile Silver Mink, Ocelot, Tiger, Snow Wolf, they are beautiful.
snow-worm n. a worm frequenting or living among snow; esp. = ice worm n. 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Oligochaeta > member of family Enchytraeidae
snow-worm1608
ice worm1884
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 313 Old snow..will looke some-what dunne..and therefore the snow-wormes are of the same hiew.
1834 A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara II. vii. 248 The most singular phenomenon of nature on Hindoo Koosh appears to be the snow-worm, which is described to resemble the silk-worm in its mature state.
1895 Cambridge Nat. Hist., Insects I. 194 The occurrence on snow and glaciers of Insects spoken of as snow-fleas, or snow-worms.
1899 H. G. Bryant in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 134 The snow-worms were first observed a few hundred yards from our first camp.
1916 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 35 102 Nothing definite is known concerning the food of these snow-worms.
c. In names of birds. Also snow-bird n., snow-bunting n., snow-finch n., etc. † snow-hammer n. [ < German schneeammer] Obsolete the snow-finch.† snow-hen n. Obsolete the ptarmigan.
snow-cock n. a snow-partridge, snow-pheasant, Tetraogallus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tetraogallus (snow-cock)
snow-partridge1853
snow-cockc1880
c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 146 The finest representatives of the Partridge are, undoubtedly, the Snow Cocks or Snow Partridges.
1897 R. Lydekker et al. Conc. Knowl. Nat. Hist. 232 The snow-cocks, or snow-pheasants.., are the largest of the partridge group.
snow-flight n. the snowflake or snow-bunting ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
snow-fowl n. the snow-bunting.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > plectrophenax nivalis (snow-bunting)
snow-fleck1683
snow-bird1694
snowflake1770
snow-bunting1771
mountain bunting1776
oat-fowl1793
snow-fowl1813
snowman1893
1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Bunting—Snow Snow-fowl. Oat-fowl.
snow-grouse n. the ptarmigan.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > genus Lagopus > lagopus mutus (ptarmigan)
ptarmigan1599
white partridge1610
snow-hen1648
white game1678
lagopus1693
grey fowl1712
rype1744
white grouse1771
rock grouse1785
tanmerack1792
ripa1830
snow-grouse1884
lagopode1901
1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 585 Lagopus, Ptarmigan. Snow Grouse.
1888 Roosevelt in Cent. Mag. 36 210 Up above the timber line were snow-grouse and huge, hoary-white woodchucks.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla montifringilla (brambling)
brambling1570
mountain spink1611
bramble1674
mountain finch1678
snow-finch1781
snow-hammer1802
snow-lark1832
cock of the North1834
furze-chucker1847
bramble-finch1865
1802 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire I. 52 During the whole of our journey..we were accompanied by small flights of snow-hammers.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > genus Lagopus > lagopus mutus (ptarmigan)
ptarmigan1599
white partridge1610
snow-hen1648
white game1678
lagopus1693
grey fowl1712
rype1744
white grouse1771
rock grouse1785
tanmerack1792
ripa1830
snow-grouse1884
lagopode1901
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een sneeuw-hoen, a Snowe-hen, or a Shoveler so called because of her w[h]itnesse.
1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 138 I call it Lagopus.., the Germans..term it Schnaehuner, i.e. Snow-hens.
snow-lark n. ? the snow-finch.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla montifringilla (brambling)
brambling1570
mountain spink1611
bramble1674
mountain finch1678
snow-finch1781
snow-hammer1802
snow-lark1832
cock of the North1834
furze-chucker1847
bramble-finch1865
1832 J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle 48 There never sings the snow-lark as she soars.
snow-owl n. the snowy owl.
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the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Strigidae > nyctea nivea (snowy-owl)
harfang1774
snowy owl1781
spotted owl1785
wapacuthu1785
snow-owl1811
snowy1904
1811 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. Pref. p. xi Snow Owl. The largest of his tribe; white, spotted with small brown spots.
1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 510 Nyctea, Snow Owls.
snow-partridge n. (a) the snow-pheasant, Tetraogallus; (b) a Himalayan gallinaceous bird, Lerwa nivicola.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > lerwa lerwa (snow-partridge)
snow-partridge1853
snow-pheasant1884
the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tetraogallus (snow-cock)
snow-partridge1853
snow-cockc1880
1853 Zoologist 11 3861 The great snow-partridge of Persia.
c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 146 The Himalayan Snow Partridge (Tetraogallus himalayensis).
1895 W. R. O. Grant in R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. IV. 406 The snow-partridge (Lerwa nivicola), inhabiting the higher Himalayan ranges.
snow-petrel n. (see quot. 1905).
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > pagodroma nivea (snow petrel)
snowy petrel1777
snow-petrel1843
1843 Zoologist 1 61 The bird called the snow petrel by sailors.
1905 E. A. Wilson in Capt. Scott Voy. ‘Discovery’ II. App. ii. 483 The Snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) is perhaps the most beautiful of all the Southern petrels;..it is pure white all over.
snow-pheasant n. (see quots.).
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > lerwa lerwa (snow-partridge)
snow-partridge1853
snow-pheasant1884
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 341 Among the birds [in Nepal] are the..snow pheasant (Tetraogallus himalayensis), snow partridge.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 733 The fine Snow-Pheasants, Crossoptilum—of..which..there are several species.
1902 T. W. Webber Forests Upper India xii. 148 A remarkable bird, the snow pheasant or snow cock (Tetraogallus Tibetanus).
snow-pigeon n. a pigeon of northern India and Tibet, Columba leuconota.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Columba > miscellaneous types of
ringtail pigeona1705
band-tailed pigeon1823
band-tail1828
band-tailed dove1842
snow-pigeon1891
1891 Cent. Dict. Snow-pigeon.
1905 E. Candler Unveiling of Lhasa iii. 59 Another common bird is the snow-pigeon.
snow-quail n. U.S. the white-tailed ptarmigan, Lagopus leucurus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > genus Lagopus > lagopus leucurus (white-tailed ptarmigan)
white-tailed ptarmigan1834
ptarmigan1858
snow-quail1895
1895 W. R. Ogilvie-Grant Game-birds I. 45 In the Rocky Mountain region it is generally known by the very appropriate name of ‘White’ or ‘Snow’ Quail.
snow-sparrow n. any passerine bird of the genus Junco.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Junco (junco)
snow-sparrow1884
Oregon junco1893
junco1898
1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 377 Junco, Snow Sparrows.
1895 Times 22 Feb. 3/1 The sight of a snow sparrow, the first of the season.
d. In names of plants or fruits.
snow-apple n. a variety of apple (Ash, 1775).
snow bush n. one or other of various shrubs bearing a profusion of white flowers ( Cent. Dict.); esp. the small silvery shrub, Calocephalus brownii, of the family Compositæ, native to Australia; hence snow-bushed adj.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian
banksia1787
waratah1793
honeysuckle1803
pinkwood1824
honeysuckle tree1825
rose1825
blue bush1828
dogwood1828
parrotbill1829
tulip-tree1830
whitebeard1832
swamp-oak1833
bauera1835
mungitec1837
bottlebrush1839
clianthus1841
glory-pea1848
boronia1852
koromiko1855
pituri1861
Sturt's pea1865
scrub vine1866
pea-bush1867
cotton-bush1876
Australian honeysuckle1881
peach myrtle1882
saloop bush1884
naupaka1888
dog rose1896
native tulip1898
snow bush1909
wedding-bush1923
Hebe1961
mountain pepper1965
1909 A. E. Mack Bush Cal. 12 Where the trees were fewer, ‘snow bushes’ grew white.
1946 D. Thomas Deaths & Entrances 28 And the dancers move On the departed snowbushed green.
1965 Austral. Encycl. III. 158/1 Snow-bush, a dense and intricately branched shrub..forms large and rounded, white-woolly growths.
snow-gem n. = snow glory n. ( Cent. Dict.).
snow glory n. a hardy garden-plant of the genus Chionodoxa.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > chionodoxa
chionodoxa1879
snow glory1887
1887 G. Nicholson's Dict. Gardening III. 447/2 Snow Glory, a common name for Chionodoxa Luciliæ.
snow-grass n. one of several coarse grasses of upland regions, esp., in New Zealand, a tussock grass of the genus Danthonia; cf. danthonia n.; also attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > names applied to various types of grass
windlestrawc1000
shear-grass1483
risp1508
sweet-grass1577
star grass1687
reesk1735
bluegrass1751
cheat1784
spear-grass1784
white top1803
prairie grass1812
elephant grass1832
ryegrass1845
wool-grass1854
snow-grass1865
quick1896
1865 Reader No. 151. 575/3 The common snow-grass (Schœnus Pauciflorus).
1875 Wood & Lapham Waiting for Mail 31 Tethering my good old horse to a tussock of snow-grass.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 425 Snow-Grass, Poa cæspitosa,..another name for Wiry-grass.
1902 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Snow grass,..a coarse tall grass (Danthonia Raoulii) of New Zealand.
1906 T. F. Cheeseman Man. N.Z. Flora 887 Snow-grass.
1918 F. W. Hilgendore Pasture Plants & Pastures N.Z. ii. 42 Snow Grass (Danthonia raoulii).—This is another Tussock, growing 4 to 6 feet high. It has broad leaves shining below, and feathery oat-like heads... Its presence in quantity frequently marks the limit above which it is not safe to carry sheep in winter..as indeed its popular name of Snow Grass would indicate.
1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. vi. 131 When he was first thatching the cob house..he put the top of each bundle of snow-grass outside the bottom of the one above so that all the rain ran inwards.
1968 N.Z. Listener 10 May 10/4 The beast, a young stag, had its antlers hopelessly entangled in the tough-rooted snowgrass.
1972 P. Newton Sheep Thief ii. 18 The roof consisting of bare birch rafters with a thick layer of snow grass thatch.
snow gum n. a shrub or small tree, Eucalyptus niphophila, with white bark and glaucous leaves, native to high regions of New South Wales.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees
yellow box1662
gum tree1676
white gum tree1733
whip-stick1782
peppermint1790
red gum tree1790
red mahogany1798
white gum1798
box1801
blue gum1802
eucalyptus1809
box tree1819
black-butted gum1820
bloodwood1827
white ash1830
blackbutt1833
morrel1837
mountain ash1837
mallee scrub1845
apple gum1846
flooded gum1847
Moreton Bay ash1847
mallee1848
swamp gum1852
box-gum1855
manna gum1855
white top1856
river gum1860
grey box1861
woolly butt1862
marlock1863
fever tree1867
red ironbark1867
river white gum1867
karri1870
yellow jacket1876
eucalypt1877
yapunyah1878
coolibah1879
scribbly gum1883
forest mahogany1884
yellow jack1884
rose gum1885
Jimmy Low1887
nankeen gum1889
slaty gum1889
sugar-gum1889
apple box1890
Murray red gum1895
creek-gum1898
eucalyptian1901
forest red gum1904
river red gum1920
napunyah1921
whitewash gum1923
ghost gum1928
snow gum1928
Sydney blue gum1932
salmon gum1934
lapunyah1940
1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xiv. 237 The snow-gums stood like brides in veils of perfumed lace.
1964 D. Stewart in R. Ward Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads 278 Hard to say where he came from—..out of a hollow snowgum Or out of a granite boulder.
1981 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) 106 275/1 There are..very large trees of the Tasmanian snow gum at Inverewe in Ross-shire.
snow lily n. a perennial herb, Erythronium grandiflorum, belonging to the family Liliaceæ, native to alpine regions of western North America, and bearing white or yellow flowers.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > allied flowers
dog's tooth1578
daylily1597
mountain saffron1597
phalangium1608
Savoy spiderwort1629
hemerocallis1648
tuberose1664
St Bruno's lily1706
superb lily1731
agapanthus1789
Spanish squill1790
erythronium1797
Tritoma1804
Spanish harebell1808
veltheimia1808
adder's tongue1817
bunch flower1818
Puschkinia1820
hedychium1822
eremurus1836
flame lily1841
lily pink1848
mountain spiderwort1849
lloydia1850
kniphofia1854
garland-flower1866
red-hot poker1870
swamp-lover1878
African lily1882
flame-flower1882
Scarborough lily1882
wood-lily1882
St. Bernard lily1883
torch-lily1884
rajanigandha1885
ginger lily1892
chinkerinchee1904
snow lily1907
sand lily1909
avalanche lily1912
Spanish bluebell1924
mountain lily1932
chink1949
poker1975
1907 S. Brown Alpine Flora of Canad. Rocky Mts. 44 (heading) Erythronium grandiflorum Pursh. Snow Lily.
1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xxix. 250 Great quantities of the bulbs of Snow Lilies.
1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 Apr. 13/3 The snow lily..pops its bright yellow head out as soon as the snow has left the hill-sides.
snow-mould n. (see quot.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > causing disease in plants
bunt1800
Sclerotium1813
Alternaria1834
oidium1836
Septoria1836
conk1851
Rhizopus1854
snow-mould1855
vine-mildew1855
vine-fungus1857
bramble-brand1867
Microsphaera1871
wood-fungus1876
sphacelia1879
blue mould1882
orange fungus1882
cluster-cup1883
hop-mildew1883
powdery mildew1886
cladosporium1887
shot-hole fungus1897
verdet1897
wound-fungus1897
fusarium1907
verticillium1916
rhynchosporium1918
coral-spot1923
blind-seed fungus1939
sclerotinia1950
1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Snow-mould, a fungous plant, the Lanosa nivalis, which grows beneath snow, on grasses or cereal crops.
snow pea n. = mange-tout n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > sugar-pea
sugar pea1707
mange-tout1823
snow pea1949
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > pea > sugar-pea
sugar pea1707
mange-tout1823
snow pea1949
1949 Nature Mag. 42 35/2 The snow pea..is commonly listed by all large seed-firms as an edible-podded pea.
1956 ‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) xx. 172 Chinese vegetables; luscious snow peas, and water chestnuts.
1978 Times 17 July 14/3 We had a prolific crop of sugar peas, which the Americans call snow peas.
snow-pear n. [German schneebirne] a variety of pear; esp. Pyrus nivalis, which comes into season after snow has fallen.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > other types of
calewey1377
honey peara1400
pome-pear1440
pome-wardena1513
choke-pear1530
muscadel1555
worry pear1562
lording1573
bon-chrétienc1575
Burgundian pear1578
king pear1585
pound pear1585
poppering1597
wood of Jerusalem1597
muscadine1598
amiot1600
bergamot1600
butter pear1600
dew-pear1600
greening1600
mollart1600
roset1600
wax pear1600
bottle pear1601
gourd-pear1601
Venerian pear1601
musk pear1611
rose pear1611
pusill1615
Christian1629
nutmeg1629
rolling pear1629
surreine1629
sweater1629
amber pear1638
Venus-pear1648
horse-pear1657
Martin1658
russet1658
rousselet1660
diego1664
frith-pear1664
maudlin1664
Messire Jean1664
primate1664
sovereign1664
spindle-pear1664
stopple-pear1664
sugar-pear1664
virgin1664
Windsor pear1664
violet-pear1666
nonsuch1674
muscat1675
burnt-cat1676
squash pear1676
rose1678
Longueville1681
maiden-heart1685
ambrette1686
vermilion1691
admiral1693
sanguinole1693
satin1693
St. Germain pear1693
pounder pear1697
vine-pear1704
amadot1706
marchioness1706
marquise1706
Margaret1707
short-neck1707
musk1708
burree1719
marquis1728
union pear1728
Doyenne pear1731
Magdalene1731
beurré1736
colmar1736
Monsieur Jean1736
muscadella1736
swan's egg1736
chaumontel1755
St Michael's pear1796
Williams1807
Marie Louise1817
seckel1817
Bartlett1828
vergaloo1828
Passe Colmar1837
glou-morceau1859
London sugar1860
snow-pear1860
Comice1866
Kieffer pear1880
sand pear1880
sandy pear1884
snowy pear1884
1860 R. Hogg Fruit Man. 212 Snow [Pear]. See White Doyenné.
1884 de Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Pl. 232 Snow-Pear—Pyrus nivalis. This variety of pear is cultivated in Austria, in the north of Italy, and in..France.
snow plant n. (a) a snow-alga; (b) a plant of the Sierra Nevada in California, Sarcodes sanguinea, (see quot. 1905).
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > other algae
slake?a1505
laver1611
sea purse1769
water-net1821
red snow1825
red snow plant1836
hydrodictyon1841
Protococcus1842
snow plant1846
purple laver1847
red snow alga1848
gory dew1861
yellow cell1861
spirogyra1875
blanket-weed1879
phycochrome1881
zoochlorella1882
chlamydomonas1884
zygnemid1887
gonyaulax1902
chlorella1904
chlorophyte1937
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > North American > other plants
bear grass1750
gardenia1756
sisyrinchium1767
heartsease1785
blazing star1789
nondo1791
unicorn-plant1796
screw-stem1802
American centaury1803
wild ginger?1804
pinweed1814
sabbatia1814
mountain mint1817
orange-root1817
richweed1818
goldenseal1828
pipeweed1837
snow plant1846
lopseed1850
devil's claw1876
turkey's beard1884
richweed1894
blue star grass1999
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 15 The red and green Snow-plants, which have been described as Confervæ, and assigned to the genus Protococcus.
1870 Old & New Mar. 349/2 The strange snow-plant..must be passed as a railroad traveller passes all things.
1882 Garden 18 Feb. 114/3 The Snow Plant of California with its rich colour.
1905 A. R. Wallace My Life II. xxxi. 161 The strange Snow plants (Sarcodes sanguinea)..with a dense spike of flowers of a blood-red colour.
1940 Oregon: End of Trail (Federal Writers' Project) 20 Deeper in the forest grow the waxy Indian pipe, the blood-red snow plant, and the rare moccasin flower.
1959 P. A. Munz Calif. Flora 436 Snow Plant. Red fleshy usually pubescent saprophyte.
snow-rose n. a species of rhododendron ( Cent. Dict.).
snow-tree n. (see quot. 1899).
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1899 Gardening Illustr. 3 June 181/2 The Snow-tree (Ozothamnus rosmarinifolius).
Draft additions June 2016
snow globe n. a toy or ornament in the form of a transparent dome that encloses a model of a scene and a liquid containing loose white particles which, when shaken, creates the appearance of a snowstorm.
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1926 New Castle (Pa.) News 6 Dec. 13/7 (advt.) We have a Snow Globe, a small thing, but what a whirlwind of a snowstorm it does enclose... All you have to do is move it a bit and the snow starts.
1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 5 June vi. 48 The New York City Snow Globe (filled with black snow instead of white).
2002 A. Sebold Lovely Bones Pref. 3 Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf.
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snow angel n. chiefly North American an impression in the snow which resembles the conventional representation of an angel, made by lying supine and moving one's arms and legs back and forth in an arc along the ground.
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1945 Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald 12 Oct. 4/3 Can you imagine me down on my back in the middle of the sidewalk down in Chelsea Village where I live, flapping my arms to make a snow angel.
1988 M. Atwood Cat's Eye (1994) 166 Cordelia..spreads her arms out in the snow, raises them above her head, draws them down to her sides, making a snow angel.
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snow cannon n. a machine which makes artificial snow and blows it on to ski slopes; a snow-maker.
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1980 N.Y. Times 9 Mar. xxiii. 2/4 Ski Sundown's snow cannons have been in operation this winter for more than 600 hours at a cost of $100 an hour.
1999 Daily Mail Ski & Snowboard Dec. 88/1 There are 58 modern lifts covering over 200km of pistes and served by over 700 snow cannons.
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snow day n. originally North American a day on which a school or other institution is closed due to snowfall or other inclement weather; such a closure; also in extended use.
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1951 N.Y. Times 1 Feb. 24/4 Embedded deeply into the routine of the state educational system are a couple of major, red letter events, known as Snow Days.
1997 M. Groening et al. Simpsons: Compl. Guide 101/1 Homer averts a possible snow day by plowing a path for the Springfield Elementary school bus.
2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 20 Oct. a3/3 The CDC plan envisions possible quarantines of people exposed to SARS... ‘Snow day’ measures, such as closings of schools and businesses, could be mandated.
2017 Times (Nexis) 21 Jan. 26 Snow is a rare event where we live in Devon, so..we declared it a ‘snow day’ and drove up into the blue skies and biting winds of Dartmoor.
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snow racer n. North American a type of small sledge with a steering mechanism.
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1985 Los Angeles Times 17 Oct. v. 22/2 Say, I like this: the Steering Ski Snow Racer. It's a little sled on skis on which you sit upright—‘a spring mechanism automatically turns the front ski if you fall off preventing the sled from continuing without you’.
2003 Edmonton Sun (Nexis) 29 Jan. 7 With a snowracer loaded on their wagon, and some other snow-conveyances along as well..[they] are geared to go on the snowy hills.
Draft additions March 2009
snow alga n. any of various psychrophilic green algae found in snow; cf. red snow alga n. at red snow n. Compounds 2.
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1848 A. Henfrey tr. M. J. Schleiden Plant 243 The snow-covered ice-plains of the extreme North, where the Red-snow Alga alone reminds us of the existence of vegetable organization.]
1909 Geogr. Jrnl. 34 669 De Toni..records the snow alga, Chlamydomonas nivalis, upon Ruwenzori.
1947 R. F. Daubenmire Plants & Environment iv. 187 Certain arctic marine algae and the snow algae complete their life cycles in habitats where the temperature never rises significantly above 0°C.
2004 Smithsonian Sept. 76/1 Snow algae will turn a whole ice cap watermelon pink for hundreds of acres.
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snown.2
/snəʊ/, U.S. /snoʊ/ A small sailing-vessel resembling a brig, carrying a main and fore mast and a supplementary trysail mast close behind the mainmast; formerly employed as a warship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > vessel with specific number of masts > types of vessel with three masts > snow
snow1676
pink-snow1721
α.
β. 1721 S. Sewall Diary 14 Apr. (1973) II. 979 A Letter from Capt. Tuthill,..giving me an account of the Arrival of the Snow Anna.1763 S. T. Janssen Smuggling 263 A Snow of 120 Tons, and 48 Men,..Mounting 12 Carriage Guns, besides Swivels.1787 G. Colman Prose Several Occasions III. 255 Majestick navies in her harbours ride, Skiffs, snows, and frigates anchor by their side.1810 G. Crabbe Borough i. 5 Far other Craft our prouder River shows, Hoys, Pinks and Sloops; Brigs, Brigantines and Snows.1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 50 A Brig bends her boom-sail (or..trysail) to the mainmast, while a Snow bends it to a trysail mast: in other respects these two vessels are alike.1881 W. C. Russell Ocean Free-lance II. iv. 193 The whole ocean..was covered by..brigs, snows, tartans, schooners, pinks.1676 London Gaz. No. 1079/3 Ostend, March 29. On the 25 instant,..appeared off of this Harbour..two Snaws of four Guns each.
1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 441 28 sail of French ships,..and among them 6 or 8 snaws of 8 or 10 guns each.
1710 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 532 A French snaw, with 33 men and 4 guns.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
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1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. II. 183 The James & Thomas tender..was attacked by a large snow privateer.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 148 She was a two-masted vessel,..and snow-rigged.
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snowv.
/snəʊ/, U.S. /snoʊ/ 1. intransitive. it snows, snow falls. Also occasionally with snow as subject.Examples of the strong forms are given under β.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > snow or fall (of snow) [verb (intransitive)]
snewc725
it snowsc1330
snitterc1400
α.
β. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 13551 Also þikke as snow þen [v.r. þat]snew, Or al so hail þat stormes blew.1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. 342 Also it rayned, blewe, & snewe, that it was a mervaylouse yvell wether.?1536 R. Copland Hye Way to Spyttell Hous sig. Aiij For it had snowen and frosen very strong.1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N1, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) I had as lieue hee tolde mee it snew.1640 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavelli Life C. Castracani in tr. N. Machiavelli Prince 279 Always and in all seasons, whether it rain'd or snew, he went with his head uncover'd.1695 A. Wood Life 30 Jan. On T[uesday] the 29 of Jan. it snew all the day.a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Snew, the Preterit of snow. York.1870 F. P. Verney Lettice Lisle xxvii. 295 It never snew once last winter.1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 131/2 It's snawn all way here.a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 6450 Whan it snoweþ, oiþer rineþ.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 1644 Sche koude make..to hayle and snowe, And frese also.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 665 Floctat, snawes... Ningit, snawes.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 462/1 Snowyn, ningit.
1486 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 57 And ther schall it snaw by craft, to be made of waffrons in maner of snaw.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 724/1 In wynter, whan it snoweth, it is good syttynge by a good fyre.
1592 Arden of Feversham v. i As we went, it snowed al the way.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 45 Where it is counted for a wonder, that..it was cold or snowed.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 4 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Though it were very bad weather, and snow'd all night.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 322 The Barometer sunk to the bottom, it Rain'd and Snow'd.
1772 T. Smith Jrnl. (1849) 287 Though it has snowed very often this month, there has been no deep snows.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xvi. 21 Glad to hear it rained, or snowed, or blew, or froze.
1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 237 If it..snows as hard there as here.
2. To fall, descend, etc., in the manner of snow. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > drop or fall vertically > like flakes of snow
snowa1400
flakea1851
flurry1883
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6381 It [sc. manna] sneu to þam als it war flur.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 145 A hundred winters snow'd upon his breast, From cheek and throat and chin.
1862 F. W. Faber Hymns vii. 398 That unrestful gloom, Where the light snows in.
1894 S. Baring-Gould Queen of Love I. 153 Away shot the cards,..snowing upon the audience in the front rows.
3.
a. transitive. To let fall as snow; to cause to descend in the manner of snow; to shower down.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > let fall or drop > drop down copiously or in a shower
rainOE
rineOE
snow?a1366
shower1611
sleet1786
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 558 Hir throte al so white of hewe, As snawe on braunche snawed newe.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1355/2 It hailed small confects, rained rosewater, and snew an artificiall kind of snow.
1608 G. Chapman Conspiracie Duke of Byron v. iii. 233 As a savage boar..holds his anger up, And snows it forth in foam.
1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age ii. ii, in Wks. (1874) III. 192 Where the Boare Hath in his fury snow'd his scattered foame.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 20 Let the skie raine Potatoes: let it thunder.., haile-kissing Comfits, and snow Eringoes. View more context for this quotation
1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate Introd. The theatrical mechanist, who, when the white paper which represented his shower of snow was exhausted, continued the storm by snowing brown.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess i. 15 He..Tore the king's letter, snow'd it down.
1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xvi. 140 A sweep of chilly air passed by,..snowing the flaky ashes broadcast about the fire.
b. In figurative use. Also absol. (quot. 1743).
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a1631 J. Donne Goe, catch a Falling Starre 13 in Poems (1633) 'Till age snow white hairs on thee.
1684 N. Lee Constantine ii. 15 I'll stay till Age Has snow'd a hundred Winters on my Head.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 37 Time on this Head has snow'd.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 166 ‘Snowing’ old inflation speeches over the Eastern states.
1905 W. J. Sollas Age of Earth iii. 65 [The] Eiffel Tower, snowing post-cards from its summit all over the civilized world.
4.
a. To strew or cover with or as with snow. Also transferred.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [verb (transitive)] > cover with snow
snowc1400
to white out1940
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > scatter loosely or strew > strew (a surface) with something
bestrewa1000
strawc1175
straw13..
strewc1384
snowc1400
overstrewc1450
strew1540
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle > sprinkle (a surface) with something > (as) with specific substance
sandc1374
snowc1400
be-ash1530
gravel1543
bemeal1598
kern1613
meal1613
powder-sugar1654
ash1655
sawdust1882
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xiv. 65 Waters and maracez..whilk a man may noȝt passe, bot if he hafe riȝt hard frost and þat it be wele snawen abouen.
1635 T. Heywood Londoni Sinus Salutis 295 Even the Horse,..When the most curb'd, and playing with the bit,..snowes the ground.
1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iv. xiii. 12 Scar'd at thy Wrinkles,..And Head snow'd o'er with Grey.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury xciv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 326 Three virgin Sisters, who..Their heads with flour snowed over white and new, Sit in a vale.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 312 Cherry trees and apricots snow the grass in spring with a white wealth of April blossoms.
1887 F. Robinson New Religio Med. 133 The mantle..of the Star of India drapes a coffin whose lid is snowed with flowers.
b. figurative. To deceive or win over with plausible words; to kid, to dupe. Also with under. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > speech intended to deceive > beguile, cajole [verb (transitive)]
bicharrea1100
fodea1375
begoc1380
inveiglea1513
to hold in halsc1560
to get within ——1572
cajole1645
to cajole with1665
butter1725
veigle1745
flummer1764
to get round ——1780
to come round ——1784
to get around ——1803
flatter-blind1818
salve1825
to come about1829
round1854
canoodle1864
moody1934
fanny1938
cosy1939
mamaguy1939
snow1943
snow-job1962
1943 Amer. Mercury Nov. 555 There he tries a snow job on her (hands her a line) and if she falls for it she's been snowed under.
1945 D. Dempsey in Best One-act Plays '44 18 Give me the lid, Greenberg..who you tryin' to snow, Lou-i-siana?
1956 E. S. Aarons Assignment Treason (1967) v. 43 Were you snowing me about Hackett doing the clobber job on you?
1963 N. Freeling Because of Cats xi. 175 I won't get mad. Just don't snow me with any sob-sister business.
1966 H. Waugh Pure Poison (1967) xiv. 87 Roger'd be alone in a corner with some girl and..looked like he was really snowing them.
1980 Australian 9 Dec. 6/5 Mr J. C. Moore (the new minister in charge of the Customs Bureau) has taken the most immediate and active interest in the workings of the bureau. Unfortunately, it is most likely that he also will be snowed by the bureaucrats as has been the case with previous ministers.
5. To cause (the hair, etc.) to turn white like snow; to invest with white hair.
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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [verb (transitive)] > white
frost1596
frostbite?1605
hoar1605
snow1605
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 462 Thou (tender Mother) wilt not suffer Age To snow my Locks in Forreine Pilgrimage.
a1689 A. Behn tr. A. Cowley Plants in Wks. (1711) III. 452 In Youth severe, Before the Winter-Age had snow'd their Hair.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 275 He is a goodly Reverend Old Man, snowed with Age.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 1/3 Yamagata stays in Tokio,..snowed with seventy years.
6. in extended use.1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. i. 167 It is a sheer snowing of pamphlets; like to snow up the Government thoroughfares.
a. With up. To block, obstruct, incommode, imprison, etc., with snow. Usually in past participle.
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society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > delay or confine due to bad weather
confine1634
snow1816
snow1887
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up > block the way or a passage
forsetc900
withseta1300
stop13..
speara1325
withsperre1330
to stop one's way1338
shut1362
forbara1375
beseta1400
stopc1400
precludea1513
interclude1526
to shut up1526
forestall1528
fence1535
hedge1535
quar1542
foreclose1548
forestop1566
to flounder up1576
obstruct1578
bar1590
retrench1590
to shut the door in (also upon) (a person's) face1596
barricade1606
barricado1611
thwartc1630
blocka1644
overthwart1654
rebarricado1655
to choke up1673
blockade1696
embarrass1735
snow1816
roadblock1950
1816 J. Austen Emma I. xiii. 244 I was snowed up at a friend's house once for a week. View more context for this quotation
1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. v. 95 News came from the country of trains snowed-up.
1873 S. Smiles Huguenots in France i. iv. 67 He wrote..from some remote place where he was snowed up.
b. With under: To bury in snow; figurative to submerge, overwhelm, overpower, etc. Originally U.S.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by burying or submerging
gravel1577
entomb1593
immerge1644
snow1880
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [verb (transitive)] > cover with snow > bury or submerge in snow
snow1880
1880 ‘E. Kirke’ Life J. A. Garfield 32 Democrats vied with Republicans..in snowing him under with congratulations.
1894 United Service Mag. Oct. 28 Mercier was snowed under by a majority greater than had ever been known in Canadian history.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The train was snowed under.
c. To drive out, take away, by means of snow.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [verb (transitive)] > drive out or away by snow
snow1851
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > by other specific means
whip1567
out-dreama1625
to wrestle out of1638
snow1851
rummage1878
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > by snow
snow1891
1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. viii. 19 [To] prove that all the winters which have snowed Cannot snow out the scent..Of a sincere man's virtues.
1891 W. F. Moulton Let. in Mem. (1899) 247 Every lingering fragment of inflection would be blown, snowed, sleeted, rained and sunned away.
d. With in. To block, imprison with snow. Chiefly North American.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [verb (transitive)] > cover with snow > block with snow
snow1857
society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > delay or confine due to bad weather
confine1634
snow1816
snow1887
1857 G. F. McDougall Eventful Voy. ‘Resolute’ xiii. 331 The fore and after parts of the upper deck were now snowed in, to the depth of nine inches on the starboard side.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad 286 Appalled at the imminent danger of being ‘snowed in’, we harnessed up and pushed on.
1869 B. Harte Luck of Roaring Camp (1871) 28 He looked over the valley, and summed up the present and future in two words ‘snowed in!’
1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail ix. 188 My train was snowed in during one of the terrible storms.
1970 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 1 Jan. 1/3 Picture above taken a year ago as worst blizzard in years blanketed area shows cars snowed-in on King's Road.
7. U.S. slang. To drug, to dope. Also with adverbs. Usually in past participle.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > drug [verb (transitive)]
narcotize1526
potion1611
druga1730
hocus1831
dope1889
slug1925
snow1927
bomb1950
hit1953
to hop up1968
1927 Amer. Speech Dec. 167/2 Snowed in, dopey, as if full of cocaine.
1934 R. Chandler in Black Mask July 70/2 She looked snowed, weaved around funny.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §509/30 Snowed, snowed in, up or under,..under the influence of cocaine.
1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It xxiii. 222 But I figured on how to get snowed.
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v.c1330- wind-breaking
- wind-broach
- wind-broken
- wind-buffeted
- wind-built
- wind-burned
- wind-cane
- wind-catch
- wind-changing
- wind-channel
- wind-chapped
- wind-cheating
- wind-chest
- wind-chill factor
- wind-chill index
- wind-chilled
- wind-cistern
- wind-clipped
- with all goodly expedition
- with all goodly haste
- with all great respect
- with all main
- with all one's eyes
- with all one's force
- with all one's heart