snowbox (snoboks)

The at., a device used in producing an imitation of a snow-storm. snow break (snō'brāk), n. A melting of snow; a thaw. And so, like snow break from the mountains, for every staircase is a melted brook, it storms, tumultuous, wild shrilling, towards the Hôtel-de-Ville. Carlyle , French Rev., I. vii. 4. snow-broth (snō'broth), n. Snow and water mixed; figuratively, very cold liquor. A man whose blood Is very snow-broth. Shak ., M. for M., 1. 4. 58. "This is none of your snow - broth , Peggy," said the mother, "it's warming." S. Judd, Margaret, i. 6. snow-bunting (sno'bunting), n. A kind of snowbird, Plectrophanes nival is , a bunting of the family Fringilli dæ , which inhabits arctic and cold temperate regions of both hemispheres, and is chiefly white, varied with black or brown. Also called snowbird, snowflake, snowfleck, snow flight, snowfowl. In full plumage, rarely seen in the United States, the bird is pure-white, with the bill, feet, middle of back, and the wings and tail in part jet-black. In the usual plumage the white is overlaid with rich, warm brown in various places, and the black is not pure or continuous. The length is 7 inches, the extent of wings 12). This bird is a near relative of the longspurs, as the Lapland, but has the hind claw curved, and is sometimes therefore placed in another genus (Plectrophenax). It breeds only in high latitudes, moving south in the fall in flocks, often of vast extent. It nests on the ground, lines the nest with feathers, and lays from four to six variegated eggs. Snow-bunting (Plectrophanes niva lis ), male, in breeding plumage.