snow water

snow-white, a . White as snow; pure white. "There snow- white curtains hung in decent folds." Words worth: Excursion, bk. vii. snow-wreath, s. An accumulation of snow of some considerable length and height. snow (2), s. [Dut. snaauw, from Low Ger. snau = a snout, a beak.] Naut.: A brig-rigged ve el, whose driver is bent to rings on a supplementary mast just abaft the mainmast. "Take for example, that most familiar craft, the brig. If the trysail of this ve el sets directly upon her mainmast, then she is a brig; but if you affix a little mast abaft her mainmast, and call it a trysail mast, and then set your trysail upon this mast, the brig, by this very trifling change, becomes what is called a snow."-London Daily Telegraph. IMG:content-1666.png:[blocks in formation] Bot.: The sterile-flowered variety of Guelder rose. Named from its round balls of white flowers. snow-ball, v. t. & i. [SNOWBALL, 8.] A. Trans.: To pelt with snowballs. B. In trans.: To throw snowballs. *snow-break, subst . [Eng. snow (1), and break .) The flood which usually follows a thaw in mount ainous districts. ( Carlyle : French Revol., pt. i., bk. vii., ch. iv.)