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A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that
she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large
trysail is hoisted. |
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Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals
or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great
variety of very beautiful and perfect forms. |
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Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent)
in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes. |
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To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as,
it snows; it snowed yesterday. |
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To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow. |