snow

SNOW, noun [Latin 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, verb intransitive To fall in snow; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.SNOW, verb transitive To scatter like snow