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mall tree (Halesia tetraptera) with white bell-shaped flowers in clusters or racemes; the snowdrop tree. -- Silver bush (Bot.), a shrubby leguminous plant (Anthyllis Barba- Jovis) of Southern Europe, having silvery foliage. -- Silver chub (Zoöl.), the fallfish. -- Silver eel. (Zoöl.) (a) The cutlass fish. (b) A pale…

A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called sledge.

The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.

unners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.

Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.

A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge. Sleigh bell, a small bell attached either to a horse when drawing a slegh, or to the sleigh itself; especially a globular bell with a loose ball which plays inside instead of a clapper.…

The state of the snow or ice which admits of running sleighs.

he surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow. Kane.

To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person. The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump. Barrow.

A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.

Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. "A dark, drizzling, slushy day." Blackw. Mag.

Snow. [Obs. or Scot.] Burns.

To snow; to abound. [Obs.] It snewed in his house of meat and drink. Chaucer.

Slight snow; sleet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

s; -- often with through. The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow. Sir W. Scott.

To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles. It had been spitting with rain. Dickens. To spit on or upon, to insult grossly; to treat with contempt. "Spitting upon all antiquity." South.

Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.

A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow.

A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow. The gray skirts of a lifting squall. Tennyson. Black squall, a squall attended with dark, heavy clouds. -- Thick squall, a black squall accompanied by rain, hail, sleet, or snow. Totten. -- White squall, a squall which comes unexpectedly, without being m…