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Traveling on snowshoes.

One who travels on snowshoes; an expert in using snowshoes. W. G. Beers.

A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc.

A storm with falling snow.

White like snow. "So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows." Shak.

To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes. [R.] Gower.

To cover with snow, or as with snow. [Poetic] Shak. Dryden.

the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion. Airing a snowy hand and signet gem. Tennyson.

To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

Of or pertaining to the Alps. [R.] "The Alpen snow." J. Fletcher.

Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.

read before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. "The weather being too hot for the apron." Hughes.

An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow. Brande & C.

A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

l; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. They cast up a bank against the city. 2 Sam. xx. 15.

A flower, but of what kind is unknown. [Obs.] Her snowy brows, like budded belamours. Spenser.

To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. "The billowing snow." Prior.

if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.