snowd, snowding

[SNOOD, SNOODING.] snow-drop, subst. [English snow, s., and drop. Named from the resemblance of the flowers to the "drops" or pendants worn in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by ladies, both as ear-rings and hangings to their brooches.] Botany & Hort .: The genus Galanthus, specially Galanthus nival is. Root an ovoid bulb; leaves obtuse, glaucous, keeled, six to ten inches long; inflorescence a scape, bearing a white flower with a double green spot below the tip. The bulb of the snowdrop is emetic. [GALANTHUS.] snowdrop-tree, s. Bot.: (1) Chi on an thus virginica ; (2) the genus Halesia. *snow-Ish, *snow-i e, adj . [Eng.snow;-ish.) Resembling snow; white as snow; snow-white. "Her snowish necke, with blewish vaines." Warner: Albions England, bk. iv. snow-le , adj. [Eng. snow; -le .] Free from snow; destitute of snow.