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Snow

noun

Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals. Synonym: snowfall.

A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground.

English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980). Synonyms: Baron Snow of Leicester, C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow.

Street names for cocaine. Synonyms: blow, C, coke, nose candy.

verb

(past & past part. snowed; pres. part. snowing)

Fall as snow.

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

... gardens she had lived—had seen the snow mountains change from the silver of dawn to the illimitable rose of sunset. The life, the colour beat insistently upon my brain. They built a world of magic where every moment was pure gold. Surely—surely to Vanna it must be the same. I believed in my very soul ...

— The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories • L. Adams Beck

... discouraged by his fate, he resolved to try the fortune of a civil war. He moved out of Syria, towards the frontiers of Bithynia, in the depth of winter. The season was severe and tempestuous; great numbers of men as well as horses perished in the snow; and as the roads were broken up by incessant rains, he was obliged to leave behind him a considerable part of the heavy baggage, which was unable to follow the rapidity of his forced marches. By this extraordinary effort of diligence, he arrived with ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon

... fell. "Mr. Winslow reports heavy snows for the past week,—soft, clogging snow,—too deep to wade through and too soft to bear. A little later, when the cold has formed a crust, our men can get in on snowshoes. There is nothing for it but patience, Mrs. Bogardus, and faith in the boy's endurance. The ...

— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote

... bent-over woman of seventy-odd years up in northern Sweden, a Laplander. She had come a long three days' journey on her snow-shoes to the meetings. Night after night as I talked through interpretation her deep-set black eyes glowed and glowed. But when one night an hour or more was spent in voluntary prayer she needed no interpreter. And as I listened I needed none. I felt that she knew ...

— Quiet Talks on John's Gospel • S. D. Gordon

... body onward for a few inches more. Again Ashley ran out into a tempest of iron and fire and over ground slippery with blood. He could still feel himself hopping back, as a barefooted boy who has ventured into a snow-storm hops back into the house. A third time he ran out, and a fourth. At the fourth he distinctly worded the thought which had been at the back of his mind from the beginning, "I shall get the V.C. for this." He tried to banish the unworthy suggestion, ...

— The Street Called Straight • Basil King

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