snow

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent hexagonal ice crystals that fall in soft, white flakes.
2. n. A falling of snow; a snowstorm.
3. n. Something resembling snow, as:
4. n. The white specks on a television screen resulting from weak reception.
5. n. Slang Cocaine.
6. n. Slang Heroin.
7. v. To fall as or in snow.
8. v. To cover, shut off, or close off with snow: We were snowed in.
9. v. Slang To overwhelm with insincere talk, especially with flattery.
10. snow under To overwhelm: I was snowed under with work.
11. snow under To defeat by a very large margin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The aqueous vapor of the atmosphere precipitated in a crystalline form, and falling to the earth in flakes, each flake consisting of a distinct crystal, or more commonly of combinations of separate crystals. The crystals belong to the hexagonal system, and are generally in the form of thin plates and long needles or spiculæ; by their different modes of union they present uncounted varieties of very beautiful figures. The whiteness of snow is due primarily to the large number of reflecting surfaces arising from the minuteness of the crystals. When sufficient pressure is applied, the slightly adhering crystals are brought into molecular contact, and the snow, losing its white color, assumes the form of ice. This change takes place when snow is gradually transformed into the ice of a glacier. Precipitation takes the form of snow when the temperature of the air at the earth's surface is near or below the freezing-point, and the flakes are larger the moister the air and the higher its temperature. The annual depth of snowfall and the number of days on which the ground is covered with snow are important elements of climate. In a ship's log-book abbreviated s.
2. n. A snowfall; a snow-storm.
3. n. A winter; hence, in enumeration, a year: as, five snows.
4. n. Something that resembles snow, as white blossoms.
5. n. In heraldry, white; argent.
6. To fall as snow: used chiefly impersonally: as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.
7. To scatter or cause to fall like snow.
8. To surround, cover, or imprison with snow: with in, up, under, or over: often used figuratively. See snow-bound.
9. n. A vessel equipped with two masts, resembling the mainmast and foremast of a ship, and a third small mast just abaft and close to the mainmast, carrying a trysail. It is identical with a brig, except that the brig bends her fore-and-aft mainsail to the mainmast, while the snow bends it to the trysail-mast. Vessels are no longer rigged in this way.

Wiktionary

1. n. The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
2. n. A shade of the color white.
3. n. Electrical noise visible on a television screen.
4. n. Cocaine.
5. n. A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
6. v. To have snow fall from the sky.
7. v. To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
8. v. To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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.
2. n. 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.
3. n. Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.
4. v. To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally
5. v. To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
2. n. a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
3. n. English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)
4. v. fall as snow
5. v. conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
6. n. street names for cocaine