Snowname

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  A surname.

snownoun詞源 1/snəʊ̯/

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  The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.

  • Snow is white, / And lieth in the dike. And every man lets it lye.
  • Didſt thou but knovv the inly touch of Loue, / Thou vvouldſt as ſoone goe kindle fire vvith ſnovv / As ſeeke to quench the fire of Loue vvith vvords.
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  The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.

  • We have had several heavy snows this year.
  • At Chriſtmas I no more deſire a Roſe, / Then vviſh a Snovv in Mayes nevv fangled ſhovves: / But like of each thing that in ſeaſon grovves.
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  The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.

  • They sang, that by his native bowers / He stood, in the last moon of flowers, / And thirty snows had not yet shed / Their glory on the warrior's head; […]
  • The path by which we twain did go, / Which led by tracts that pleased us well, / Thro' four sweet years arose and fell, / From flower to flower, from snow to snow: […]
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  The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.

  • VVhen VVinter ſhuts the Seas, and fleecy Snovvs / Make Houſes vvhite, ſhe to the Merchant goes: / Rich Cryſtals of the Rock She takes up there, / Huge Agat Vaſes, and old China VVare: […]
  • This River [the Rubicon] is not ſo contemptible as it is generally repreſented, and vvas much increas'd by the melting of the Snovvs vvhen [Julius] Cæſar paſs'd it, according to Lucan.
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  cookingfoodlifestyleSomething resembling snow (etymology 1, noun sense 1) in appearance or color.

  • apple snow    lemon snow
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  Something resembling snow (etymology 1, noun sense 1) in appearance or color.

  • The daughters of the land were beautiful, with blue eyes and fair hair, and bosoms of snow, […]
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  Something resembling snow (etymology 1, noun sense 1) in appearance or color.

  • A scent of pine-wood from a tent-like pile of planks outside the open door mingled itself with the scent of the elder-bushes which were spreading their summer snow close to the open window opposite; […]
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  Something resembling snow (etymology 1, noun sense 1) in appearance or color.

  • Near-synonym: static
  • I took my TV over on the first trip. I got a beauty. It's four years old, color, but when I had a little snow and asked the repairman to come in, he told me never, never turn this set in for a new one. They don't make them like this anymore, he said. He got rid of the snow and all he charged me was two dollars.

snowverb詞源 1/snəʊ̯/

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  Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.

  • It is snowing.    It started to snow.
  • In wynter whan it ſnoweth it is good ſyttynge by a good fyre: […]
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  Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.

  • Time on this Head has ſnovv’d, yet ſtill ’tis borne / Aloft; nor thinks but on another’s Grave.
  • She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.
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  To cause (something) to fall like snow.

  • [A]t the ſetting out of a verie ſtatelie tragedie named Dido, wherein the quéenes banket (with Eneas narration of the deſtruction of Troie) was liuelie deſcribed in a marchpaine patterne, there was alſo a goodlie ſight of hunters with full crie of a kennell of hounds, Mercurie and Iris deſcending and aſcending from and to an high place, the tempeſt wherein it hailed ſmall confects, rained roſewater, and ſnew an artificiall kind of ſnow, all ſtrange, maruellous, ⁊ [and] abundant.
  • Ride ten thouſand daies and nights, / Till age ſnovv vvhite haires on thee, […]
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  To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.

  • Even the Horſe wee ride / Vnſhod, would founder, who takes greateſt pride, / When the moſt curb'd, and playing with the bit, / Hee ſnowes the ground [with froth from his mouth], and doth the Spurre forgit.
  • There are three Fates, three virgin Sisters, who / Rejoicing in their wind-outspeeding wings, / Their heads with flour snowed over white and new, / Sit in a vale round which Parnassus flings / Its circling skirts— […]
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  To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.

  • Ah, courteous England, thy kinde arms I ſee / VVide-stretched out to ſaue and vvelcom me. / Thou (tender Mother) vvilt not ſuffer Age / To ſnovve my locks in Forrein Pilgrimage: […]
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  slangTo convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.

  • […] I concluded that the best thing would be to try to snow him a little, so I said that I had heard many marvelous reports about the Wariri. As I couldn't think of any details just then, I was just as glad that he didn't ask me to be specific.
  • She'll expose you / When she snows you / 'Cause she knows you
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  slangcard-gamespokerTo convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.

  • [T]he Adventurer knew that despite what [Mike] Caro had said, there was a good chance that he was "snowing" (playing a hand that had no value and could win only if his opponent threw his cards away). Notice that this creates a dilemma for the Adventurer. If he bets and Caro is on a snow, he will lose a bet, but if he checks and his opponent is not on a snow, he also will lose a bet.
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  slangTo cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.

  • She looked snowed, weaved around funny, didn't seem to know much what was going on.

snowadj詞源 1/snəʊ̯/

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  Done because the alternate outcome is very unlikely to pass.

snownoun詞源 2

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  historicalnauticaltransportA square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a brig formerly used as a warship, with a foremast, a mainmast, and a trysail mast immediately abaft (behind) the mainmast.

  • An ESTIMATE made of the Annual Expence of a Snow of 120 Tons, and 48 Men (Officers included) Mounting 12 Carriage Guns, beſides Swivels.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• marine snow