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Snowy   /snˈoʊi/   Listen
adjective
Snowy  adj.  
1.
White like snow. "So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows."
2.
Abounding with snow; covered with snow. "The snowy top of cold Olympus."
3.
Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless. "There did he lose his snowy innocence."
Snowy heron (Zool.), a white heron, or egret (Ardea candidissima), found in the Southern United States, and southward to Chile; called also plume bird.
Snowy lemming (Zool.), the collared lemming (Cuniculus torquatus), which turns white in winter.
Snowy owl (Zool.), a large arctic owl (Nyctea Scandiaca, or Nyctea nivea) common all over the northern parts of the United States and Europe in winter time. Its plumage is sometimes nearly pure white, but it is usually more or less marked with blackish spots. Called also white owl.
Snowy plover (Zool.), a small plover (Aegialitis nivosa) of the western parts of the United States and Mexico. It is light gray above, with the under parts and portions of the head white.






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"Snowy" Quotes from Famous Books



... on castle-walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, ...
— Beauties of Tennyson • Alfred Tennyson

... exposed as she leaned over, reminded me, as it heaved against the chemiset, of the bows of a beautiful ship, rising and sinking with the swell of the sea, now high in sight, and anon buried in a cloud of snowy spray. One hand, buried in curls, I have said, supported her head, the other, by her side, grasped the folds of her robe, beneath which peeped out a tiny foot in a way that was rather dangerous to my sane state of ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

... frozen wine had disappeared, a serving-maid brought in a stoneware pan covered with a snowy pastry, made from the whites of eggs and clear sugar. At its entry Yolanda clapped her hands and cried out with childish delight. When the pan was placed before ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major

... intend to freeze, for instance, we will say, a pint of very strong, clear, bright coffee and half a pint of syrup a lisse. Put them into the freezer and turn; as it becomes frozen up the sides, scrape it down with a spoon, and remember, as soon as it resembles snowy water (not white, of course) it is frozen enough. It must be just ...
— Choice Cookery • Catherine Owen

... he met no soul upon the way. For the most part the rough wagon trail led him through a forest of lofty, slender aspen-trees, with snowy shafts and ...
— The Huntress • Hulbert Footner


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