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y Asiatic thrush of the genus Turdulus. -- Pied finch (Zoöl.) (a) The chaffinch. (b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pied flycatcher (Zoöl.), a common European flycatcher (Ficedula atricapilla). The male is black and white.

ing resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit. Three silent pinnacles of aged snow. Tennyson. The slippery tops of human state, The gilded pinnacles of fate. Cowley.

andled spade or paddle for cleaning the plowshare; a paddle staff. (b) A plow handle. -- Snow plow, a structure, usually

ranch of meteorology treating of the automatic registration of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc.; also, the graphic presentation of precipitation data.

at department of meteorology that treats of the measurement of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc.

Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.

t to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.

the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay.

ng on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow. Where print of human feet was never seen. Dryden.

n language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.

A genus of minute unicellular algæ including the red snow plant (Protococcus nivalis).

A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. [Canada]

To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

, that it may be cropped by cattle. Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. Mortimer.

with a scar or scars. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. Shak. His cheeks were deeply scarred. Macaulay.

ly; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties. Chaucer. A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples. Addison. Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity. Rambler. The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness. Collier.

sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. "The sheeted dead." "When snow the pasture sheets." Shak.

ood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.

pl. of Shoe. [Archaic] Chaucer. They shook the snow from hats and shoon. Emerson.

A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow. In drought or else showers. Chaucer. Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. Milton.