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Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes. The field of snow with eagle of black therein. Chaucer. Red snow. See under Red. Snow bunting. (Zoöl.) See Snowbird, 1. -- Snow cock (Zoöl.), the snow pheasant. -- Snow flea (Zoöl.), a small black lea…

A bannerlike stream of snow blown into the air from a mountain peak, often having a pinkish color and extending horizontally for several miles across the sky.

Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow. -- Snow"-blind`ness, n.

Enveloped in, or confined by, snow. Whittier.

Snow and water mixed, or snow just melted; very cold liquor. Shak.

Having the top capped or covered with snow; as, snow-capped mountains.

White as snow; very white. "Snow-white and rose-red" Chaucer.

A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.

thern United States, and the Chiococca racemosa of Florida and tropical America. Creeping snowberry. (Bot.) See under Creeping.

winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight.

A very small humming bird (Microchæra albocoronata) native of New Grenada.

A bank of drifted snow.

A bulbous plant (Galanthus nivalis) bearing white flowers, which often appear while the snow is on the ground. It is cultivated in gardens for its beauty. Snowdrop tree. See Silver-bell tree, under Silver, a.

A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.

See Snowbird, 1.

The hooded merganser. [Local, U.S.]

Destitute of snow.

An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.

A shelter to protect from snow, esp. a long roof over an exposed part of a railroad.

it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.