SNOW, n. L. nix,nivis The Latin nivis, is contracted from nigis, like Eng. bow.
1. Frozen vapor watery particles congealed into white crystals in the air, and falling to the earth. When there is no wind, these crystals fall in flakes or unbroken collections, sometimes extremely beautiful.
2. A vessel equipped with two masts, resembling the main and fore-masts of a ship, and a third small mast just abaft the mainmast, carrying a try-sail.
SNOW, To fall in snow as, it snows it snowed yesterday.
SNOW, To scatter like snow.
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