1. Noun
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. Noun
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. Noun
Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.
4. Verb
To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.
5. Verb
To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.
6. Noun
precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
7. Noun
a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
Vocabulary classified under Geography
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