snow Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
    snowfall.
  2. noun a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
  3. noun English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)
    C. P. Snow; Charles Percy Snow; Baron Snow of Leicester.
  4. noun street names for cocaine
    blow; C; coke; nose candy.
  5. verb fall as snow
    • It was snowing all night
  6. verb conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
    lead by the nose; play false; hoodwink; pull the wool over someone's eyes; bamboozle.
    • He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well

WordNet

Snow noun
Etymology
LG. snaue, or D. snaauw, from LG. snau a snout, a beak.
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
Snow noun
Etymology
OE. snow, snaw, AS. snaw; akin to D. sneeuw, OS. & OHG. sneo, G. schnee, Icel. sn&ae;r, snj&omac;r, snajar, Sw. snö, Dan. snee, Goth. snaiws, Lith. snëgas, Russ. snieg', Ir. & Gael. sneachd, W. nyf, L. nix, nivis, Gr. acc. ni`fa, also AS. sniwan to snow, G. schneien, OHG. sniwan, Lith. snigti, L. ningit it snows, Gr. ni`fei, Zend snizh to snow; cf. Skr. snih to be wet or sticky.
Definitions
  1. Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms. ✍ Snow is often used to form compounds, most of which are of obvious meaning; as, snow-capped, snow-clad, snow-cold, snow-crowned, snow-crust, snow-fed, snow-haired, snowlike, snow-mantled, snow-nodding, snow-wrought, and the like.
  2. Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.
    The field of snow with eagle of black therein. Chaucer.
Snow intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Snowed ; present participle & verbal noun Snowing
Definitions
  1. To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.
Snow transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow. Donne. Shak.

Webster 1913