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▸ noun: (countable) An instance of the falling of snow (sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
▸ noun: (countable) A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
▸ noun: (countable) An accumulation or spread of snow.
▸ noun: Something resembling snow (sense 1) in appearance or colour.
▸ noun: (countable, cooking) A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy.
▸ noun: (uncountable)
▸ noun: The white colour of snow.
▸ noun: (figurative) Clusters of white flowers.
▸ noun: (figurative) The moving pattern of random dots seen on a radar or television screen, etc., when no transmission signal is being received or when there is interference.
▸ noun: (figurative) Sea foam; sea spray.
▸ noun: (figurative) Also in the plural: white hair on an (older) person's head.
▸ noun: (figurative, poetic) White marble.
▸ noun: (figurative, slang) Money, especially silver coins.
▸ noun: (figurative, slang, dated) White linen which has been washed.
▸ noun: (chemistry) Chiefly with a descriptive word: a substance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozen carbon dioxide.
▸ noun: (originally US, slang) Cocaine; also (less frequently), heroin or morphine.
▸ verb: (intransitive, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.
▸ verb: (also figurative) Of a thing: to fall like snow.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To cause (something) to fall like snow.
▸ verb: To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
▸ verb: (figurative)
▸ verb: To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
▸ verb: (originally US, slang) To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.
▸ verb: (poker) To bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards.
▸ verb: (US, slang, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.
▸ noun: (nautical, historical) A square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a brig formerly used as a warship, with a foremast, a mainmast, and a trysail mast immediately abaft (behind) the mainmast.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (marine biology) Clipping of marine snow (“sinking organic detritus in the ocean”). [(marine biology) Sinking organic detritus in the ocean.]
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