snow
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Substantiivi
snow englanniksi
Snow
(senseid) 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.
(RQ:John Heywood Proverbs)
(RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona)
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3 Q1)
(RQ:T. Herbert Travaile) or Pyramide (..) by reaſon of their rare height and affinitie vvith the middle Aerie Region are ſeldome vvithout Snovv.
(RQ:Dryden Dramatick Poesie) vvas not onely a profeſſed Imitator of ''(w)'', but a learned Plagiary of all the others; you track him every vvhere in their Snovv: (..)|footer=A figurative use.
(RQ:Thomson Autumn)
(RQ:Goldsmith History of the Earth)
(RQ:Shelley Revolt of Islam)
(RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol), no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
(RQ:Hughes Tom Brown at Oxford)
(RQ:Milne House at Pooh Corner)
(quote-song)
(quote-song)|series=Decca 27229|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Decca Records|year_published=October 1950|oclc=220829325|passage=Hear the snow crunch, see the kids bunch / This is Santa's big scene / And above all the bustle you'll hear / Silver bells (..)
(quote-book)
An instance of the falling of snow ''((senseno))''; a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
(ux)
(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1)
(RQ:Pope Dunciad)
(RQ:Kingsley Westward Ho)
(RQ:Longfellow Voices)
(RQ:Tennyson In Memoriam)
An accumulation or spread of snow.
(RQ:Dryden Juvenal Satires)
(RQ:Addison Italy) is not ſo contemptible as it is generally repreſented, and vvas much increas'd by the melting of the Snovvs vvhen Julius Caesar|(quote-gloss) ''Cæſar'' paſs'd it, according to ''(w)''.
(RQ:Shelley Revolt of Islam), / Which on a sudden from its snows has shaken / The swoon of ages, it shall burst and fill / The world with cleansing fire: (..)
(RQ:Scott Monastery)
(RQ:Robert Browning La Saisiaz)
Something resembling snow ''((senseno))'' in appearance or color.
A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping whites until creamy.
(coi)
The white color of snow.
(color panel)
(RQ:Scott Canongate)
(RQ:Eliot Adam Bede)
(senseid) The moving pattern of random dots seen on a radar or television screen, etc., when no transmission signal is being received or when there is interference.
(synonyms)
(nearsyn)
''Also in the (glossary)'': white hair on an (older) person's head.
(RQ:Thackeray Henry Esmond)
White marble.
(RQ:P. J. Bailey Festus)
''Chiefly with a descriptive word'': a substance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozen dioxide.
(clipping of)
(quote-text) Besides, if it wasn’t poison, it might be ‘snow’ or something.
(senseid) ''Preceded by the subject'' it: to have snow ''(noun (senseno))'' fall from the atmosphere.
(RQ:Palsgrave Lesclarcissement)
(RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge)
(quote-song).
Of a thing: to fall like snow.
(RQ:Young Night-Thoughts)
(RQ:Heywood Brazen Age) 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.
(RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842)
(RQ:Baring-Gould Queen of Love)
To cause (something) to fall like snow.
(RQ:Holinshed Chronicles) abundant.
(RQ:Donne Poems)
(RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives)
(RQ:Chapman Byron) So fares the furious Duke, and vvith his lookes, / Doth teach death horrors; (..)
(RQ:Scott Canongate), I drew on my memory as long as I could, and, when that failed, eked it out with invention.
(RQ:Tennyson Princess)
(RQ:Trowbridge Vagabonds)
(RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer)
To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
(RQ:Heywood Dramatic Works), and doth the ''Spurre'' forgit.
(RQ:Shelley Posthumous Poems), 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— (..)
To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
(RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas), 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: (..)
(senseid) To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.
(RQ:Bellow Henderson) 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.
To bluff (an opponent) in poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards.
(quote-book)|section=part 2 (Theory in Practice)|page=84|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/gamblingtheoryot0000malm/page/284/mode/1up|isbn=978-1-880685-03-7|passage=The Adventurer knew that despite what Caro|(quote-gloss) 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.
To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.
A square-rigged vessel similar to a brig formerly used as a warship, with a foremast, a mainmast, and a trysail mast immediately abaft (behind) the mainmast.
(coordinate terms)
(quote-book)|title=Smuggling Laid Open in All Its Extensive and Destructive Branches;(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) W. Owen, and W. Nicoll|page=263|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_smuggling-laid-open-in-_janssen-stephen-theodor_1763/page/n282/mode/1up|oclc=5146903|passage=An ESTIMATE made of the Annual Expence of a (smallcaps) of 120 Tons, and 48 Men (Officers included) Mounting 12 Carriage Guns, beſides Swivels.
(l) (gloss)
(RQ:Wycliffe NT Lichfield)
snow-white (gloss)
The temperature where snow appears.
(alt form)