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Pope. Teach us further by what means to shun The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow! Milton.

ncrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar. And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow, Incrusted hard. Thomson.

As an indefinite nominative for a impersonal verb; as, it snows; it rains.

the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American finches; -- called also snowbird, or blue snowbird.

of government; various kinds of soil, etc. How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds ! Spenser. There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. I Cor. xv. 39. Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philo…

Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep. Grass knee-deep within a month. Milton.

urel, etc. It is supposed to poison sheep and other animals that eat it at times when the snow is deep and they cannot find other food.

ed by sails. -- Land blink, a peculiar atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions. See Ice blink. -- Land breeze. See under Breeze. -- Land chain. See Gunter's chain. -- Land crab (Zoöl.), any one of various species of crabs which live much on the land, and resort to the w…

Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy. "His hand was leprous as snow." Ex. iv. 6.

often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin. The watchful traveler . . . Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes. Dryden.

Not copious or heavy; not dense; not inconsiderable; as, a light rain; a light snow; light vapors.

'The as like you As cherry is to cherry. Shak. Like master, like man. Old Prov. He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.

a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to mell wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.

Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc. Hail, an ordinary meteor. Bp. Hall.

The upper part of a glacier, above the limit or perpetual snow. See Galcier.

Abounding with snow; snowy. [Obs.] Johnson.

Snowy; resembling snow; partaking of the qualities of snow. Sir T. Browne.

or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.

(Zoöl.), an Asiatic sand partridge (Ammoperdix Bonhami); -- so called from its note. -- Snow partridge (Zoöl.), a large spurred partridge (Lerwa nivicola) which inhabits the high mountains of Asia. -- Spruce partridge. See under Spruce. -- Wood partridge, or Hill partridge (Zoöl.), any small Asiatic partridge of th…

A heavy fall of rain or snow. [Prov. Eng.]