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Snow

noun
1.
Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals.  Synonym: snowfall.
2.
A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground.
3.
English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980).  Synonyms: Baron Snow of Leicester, C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow.
4.
Street names for cocaine.  Synonyms: blow, C, coke, nose candy.
verb
(past & past part. snowed; pres. part. snowing)
1.
Fall as snow.
2.
Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end.  Synonyms: bamboozle, hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes.



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"Snow" Quotes from Famous Books



... so we can. By the hook-block! how our two snow-balls of cooks will swear! Well, thank God for every thing but bread, and that we get o' the baker." So saying, he rolled off towards the forecastle, to superintend the knotting of one of the fore shrouds, that had been shot ...
— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames

... with cold beware of sleeping out of doors; rub yourself, if you have it in your power, with snow, and do not hastily approach ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... the harmless beverage of your festive scene this poison of adders! Mix not with the white sugar of the cup the snow of this awful leprosy! Mar not the clatter of cutlery at the holiday feast with the clank ...
— The Abominations of Modern Society • Rev. T. De Witt Talmage

... not long since a wolf had wandered down, famished in the winter's dearth, and left a few bones and some tufts of wool of what had been a lamb in the morning. Nay, there were broad-footed tracks in the snow only two years previously, which could not be mistaken;—the black bear alone could have set that plantigrade seal, and little children must come home early from school and play, for he is an indiscriminate feeder when he is hungry, and a little ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... has been very severe here for nearly three weeks; the thermometer 30 degrees below zero, with quite a fall of snow on the ground. I have tried every means in my power to raise volunteers for three months' State service, but as yet have not succeeded, owing to the factional spirit existing in ...
— The Battle of Atlanta - and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. • Grenville M. Dodge


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