v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Besnowed ] [ OE. bisnewen, AS. besnīwan; pref. be- + snīwan to snow. ] 1. To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes. [ R. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover with snow; to whiten with snow, or as with snow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Snapdragon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; dys- ill, bad + &unr_; law. ] Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws. Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small California annual (Linanthus dichotomus) with white flowers.
Syn. -- evening snow, Linanthus dichotomus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. pref. mes- amiss, wrong (L. minus less) + F. nommer to name, L. nominare, fr. nomen name. See Name. ] The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many of the changes, by a great misnomer, called parliamentary “reforms”. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The word “synonym” is fact a misnomer. Whately. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To misname. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover with snow, or as with snow. [ Poetic ] Shak. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Physiogmony. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. snāpr a dolt, impostor, charlatan. Cf. Snub. ] 1. A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but none the less a snob. R. G. White. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eng. Univ.) A townsman. [ Canf ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A journeyman shoemaker. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being “nobs” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious. -- Snob"bish*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Snobbery. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Snobbish. [ R. ] E. B. Ramsay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little snob. [ Jocose ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Snob + -cracy, as in aristocracy, mobocracy. ] Snobs, collectively. [ Hybrid & Recent ] C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Scot. snod to prune, put in order. ] Trimmed; smooth; neat; trim; sly; cunning; demure. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Snood. ] A fillet; a headband; a snood. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Snuff. ] (Mining) A short candle end used for igniting a fuse. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. snōd. Cf. Snare. ] 1. The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And seldom was a snood amid
Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wearing or having a snood. “The snooded daughter.” Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Prov. E. snook to search out, to follow by the scent; cf. Sw. snoka to lurk, LG. snöggen, snuckern, snökern, to snuffle, to smell about, to search for. ] To lurk; to lie in ambush. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. snoek. ] (Zool.) (a) A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo. (b) The cobia. (c) The garfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Scot. snooze to sleep; cf. Dan. & Sw. snus snuff. ] A short sleep; a nap. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Snoozed p. pr. & vb. n. Snoozing. ] To doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A harsh nasal noise made in sleep. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Snored p. pr. & vb. n. Snoring. ] [ OE. snoren, AS. snora a snoring; akin to LG. snoren, snorken, snurken, to snore, D. snorken, G. schnarchen to snore, schnarren to rattle, MHG. snarren, Sw. snarka to snore, Icel. snarka to sputter, fizzle. Cf. Snarl to growl, Sneer, Snort. See Snoring. ] To breathe with a rough, hoarse, nasal voice in sleep. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who snores. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. It is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Snorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Snorting. ] [ OE. snorten; akin to snoren. See Snore. ] 1. To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To snore. [ R. ] “The snorting citizens.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To laugh out loudly. [ Colloq. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who snorts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The wheather; -- so called from its cry. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. snot; akin to D. snot, LG. snotte, Dan. snot, and to E. snout. See Snout. ] 1. Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mean, insignificant fellow. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ From Snot. ] To snivel; to cry or whine. [ Prov. Eng. ] Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Naut.) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Filth; abomination. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To purge the snottery of our slimy time. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Snot"ti*ly adv. -- Snot"ti*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish with a nozzle or point. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. snoute, probably of Scand, or Low German origin; cf. LG. snute, D. snuit, G. schnauze, Sw. snut, snyte, Dan. snude, Icel. sn&unr_;ta to blow the nose; probably akin to E. snuff, v.t. Cf. Snite, Snot, Snuff. ] 1. The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The nose of a man; -- in contempt. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) (a) The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum. (b) The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Snout beetle (Zool.), any one of many species of beetles having an elongated snout and belonging to the tribe Rhynchophora; a weevil. --
Snout moth (Zool.), any pyralid moth. See Pyralid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a beast's snout. [ 1913 Webster ]

The nose was ugly, long, and big,
Broad and snouty like a pig. Otway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LG. snaue, or D. snaauw, from LG. snau a snout, a beak. ] (Naut.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. snow, snaw, AS. snāw; akin to D. sneeuw, OS. & OHG. snēo, G. schnee, Icel. snær, snjōr, snajār, Sw. snö, Dan. snee, Goth. snaiws, Lith. snëgas, Russ. snieg', Ir. & Gael. sneachd, W. nyf, L. nix, nivis, Gr. acc. ni`fa, also AS. snīwan to snow, G. schneien, OHG. snīwan, Lith. snigti, L. ningit it snows, Gr. ni`fei, Zend snizh to snow; cf. Skr. snih to be wet or sticky. √172. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Snow is often used to form compounds, most of which are of obvious meaning; as, snow-capped, snow-clad, snow-cold, snow-crowned, snow-crust, snow-fed, snow-haired, snowlike, snow-mantled, snow-nodding, snow-wrought, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

The field of snow with eagle of black therein. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Red snow. See under Red. [ 1913 Webster ]

Snow bunting. (Zool.) See Snowbird, 1. --
Snow cock (Zool.), the snow pheasant. --
Snow flea (Zool.), a small black leaping poduran (Achorutes nivicola) often found in winter on the snow in vast numbers. --
Snow flood, a flood from melted snow. --
Snow flower (Bot.), the fringe tree. --
Snow fly, or
Snow insect (Zool.), any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Boreus. The male has rudimentary wings; the female is wingless. These insects sometimes appear creeping and leaping on the snow in great numbers. --
Snow gnat (Zool.), any wingless dipterous insect of the genus Chionea found running on snow in winter. --
Snow goose (Zool.), any one of several species of arctic geese of the genus Chen. The common snow goose (Chen hyperborea), common in the Western United States in winter, is white, with the tips of the wings black and legs and bill red. Called also white brant, wavey, and Texas goose. The blue, or blue-winged, snow goose (Chen coerulescens) is varied with grayish brown and bluish gray, with the wing quills black and the head and upper part of the neck white. Called also white head, white-headed goose, and bald brant. --
Snow leopard (Zool.), the ounce. --
Snow line, lowest limit of perpetual snow. In the Alps this is at an altitude of 9, 000 feet, in the Andes, at the equator, 16, 000 feet. --
Snow mouse (Zool.), a European vole (Arvicola nivalis) which inhabits the Alps and other high mountains. --
Snow pheasant (Zool.), any one of several species of large, handsome gallinaceous birds of the genus Tetraogallus, native of the lofty mountains of Asia. The Himalayn snow pheasant (Tetraogallus Himalayensis) in the best-known species. Called also snow cock, and snow chukor. --
Snow partridge. (Zool.) See under Partridge. --
Snow pigeon (Zool.), a pigeon (Columba leuconota) native of the Himalaya mountains. Its back, neck, and rump are white, the top of the head and the ear coverts are black. --
Snow plant (Bot.), a fleshy parasitic herb (Sarcodes sanguinea) growing in the coniferous forests of California. It is all of a bright red color, and is fabled to grow from the snow, through which it sometimes shoots up. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Snowed p. pr. & vb. n. Snowing. ] To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow. Donne. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The Guelder-rose. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) a shrub of the genus Viburnum, having large clusters of white flowers. [ PJC ]

Snowball bush or
Snowball tree (Bot.), the Guelder-rose. --
a snowball's chance in hell, [ Colloq. ] no chance; an infinitesimal chance. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Snowballed p. pr. & vb. n. Snowballing. ] To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To throw snowballs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To increase in magnitude at an accelerating rate, achieving large proportions; -- by analogy with a snowball rolling down a steep hill, causing a large snow slide. [ PJC ]