coke, blow, nose candy, snow
(noun) street names for cocaine
Snow, C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester
(noun) English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)
snow, snowfall
(noun) precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
snow
(noun) a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false
(verb) conceal oneās true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; āHe bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject wellā
snow
(verb) fall as snow; āIt was snowing all nightā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Snow (plural Snows)
A surname.
• nows, owns, sow'n, sown, wons
snow (countable and uncountable, plural snows)
(uncountable) The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
(uncountable) Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
(countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
(uncountable) A shade of the color white.
(uncountable) The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc, when no transmission signal is being received.
Synonym: shash
(uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
• (cocaine): blow
snow (third-person singular simple present snows, present participle snowing, simple past and past participle snowed)
(impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.
(colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
(poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.
• In older texts and still in dialects, the past tense snew and past participle snown may be encountered.
snow (plural snows)
(nautical) 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.
• nows, owns, sow'n, sown, wons
Source: Wiktionary
Snow, n. Etym: [LG. snaue, or D. snaauw, from LG. snau a snout, a beak.] (Naut.)
Definition: 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, n. Etym: [OE. snow, snaw, AS. snaw; akin to D. sneeuw, OS. & OHG. sneo, G. schnee, Icel. snƦr, snjor, snajar, Sw. snƶ, Dan. snee, Goth. snaiws, Lith. snƫgas, 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. sq. root172.]
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.
Note: 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. Red snow. See under Red. Snow bunting. (Zoƶl.) See Snowbird, 1.
– Snow cock (Zoƶl.), the snow pheasant.
– Snow flea (Zoƶl.), a small black leaping poduran (Achorutes nivicola) often found in winter on the snow in vast numbers.
– Snow flood, a flood from melted snow.
– Snow flower (Bot.), the fringe tree.
– Snow fly, or Snow insect (Zoƶl.), any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Boreus. The male has rudimentary wings; the female is wingless. These insects sometimes appear creeping and leaping on the snow in great numbers.
– Snow gnat (Zoƶl.), any wingless dipterous insect of the genus Chionea found running on snow in winter.
– Snow goose (Zoƶl.), any one of several species of arctic geese of the genus Chen. The common snow goose (Chen hyperborea), common in the Western United States in winter, is white, with the tips of the wings black and legs and bill red. Called also white brant, wavey, and Texas goose. The blue, or blue-winged, snow goose (C. coerulescens) is varied with grayish brown and bluish gray, with the wing quills black and the head and upper part of the neck white. Called also white head, white-headed goose, and bald brant.
– Snow leopard (Zool.), the ounce.
– Snow line, lowest limit of perpetual snow. In the Alps this is at an altitude of 9,000 feet, in the Andes, at the equator, 16,000 feet.
– Snow mouse (Zoƶl.), a European vole (Arvicola nivalis) which inhabits the Alps and other high mountains.
– Snow pheasant (Zoƶl.), any one of several species of large, handsome gallinaceous birds of the genus Tetraogallus, native of the lofty mountains of Asia. The Himalayn snow pheasant (T.Himalayensis) in the best-known species. Called also snow cock, and snow chukor.
– Snow partridge. (Zoƶl.) See under Partridge.
– Snow pigeon (Zoƶl.), a pigeon (Columba leuconota) native of the Himalaya mountains. Its back, neck, and rump are white, the top of the head and the ear coverts are black.
– Snow plant (Bot.), a fleshy parasitic herb (Sarcodes sanguinea) growing in the coniferous forests of California. It is all of a bright red color, and is fabled to grow from the snow, through which it sometimes shoots up.
Snow, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Snowed (; p. pr. & vb. n. Snowing.]
Definition: To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.
Snow, v. t.
Definition: To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow. Donne. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 April 2025
(noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; āin focusā; āout of focusā
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
