Snow (n.) 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. |
Snow (n.) 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. |
Snow (n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry |
Snow (v. i.) To fall in or as snow |
Snow (v. t.) To scatter like snow |
Snow-blind (a.) Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow. |
Snow-bound (a.) Enveloped in, or confined by, snow. |
Snow-broth (n.) Snow and water mixed, or snow just melted |
Snow-capped (a.) Having the top capped or covered with snow |
Snow-white (a.) White as snow |
Tire (n.) A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. |
Tire (n.) Attire |
Tire (n.) A covering for the head |
Tire (n.) A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves |
Tire (n.) Furniture |
Tire (n.) A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear. |
Tire (v. t.) To adorn |
Tire (v. i.) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. |
Tire (v. i.) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey |
Tire (v. i.) To become weary |
Tire (v. t.) To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor |
Tire-women (pl. ) of Tire-woman |
Tire-woman (n.) A lady's maid. |
Tire-woman (n.) A dresser in a theater. |
Tyre () Curdled milk. |
Tyre (n. & v.) Attire. See 2d and 3d Tire. |
Tyre (v. i.) To prey. See 4th Tire. |
Winter (n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region |
Winter (n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like. |
Winter (v. i.) To pass the winter |
Winter (v. i.) To keep, feed or manage, during the winter |
Winter-beaten (a.) Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. |
Winter-ground (v. t.) To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter |
Winter-proud (a.) Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. |
Winter-rig (v. t.) To fallow or till in winter. |
Winter's bark () The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, / Drymis, Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577. |
snow bunting snowbird snowflake Plectrophenax nivalis | white Arctic bunting |
winter wren Troglodytes troglodytes | small wren of coniferous forests of northern hemisphere |
snow goose | blue goose in the white color phase |
snow leopard ounce Panthera uncia | large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur |
winter flounder blackback flounder lemon sole Pseudopleuronectes americanus | important American food fish in the winter |
car tire automobile tire auto tire rubber tire | a tire consisting of a rubber ring around the rim of an automobile wheel |
coke blow nose candy snow C | street names for cocaine |
flat flat tire | a deflated pneumatic tire |
pneumatic tire pneumatic tyre | a tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air, used on motor vehicles and bicycles etc |
radial radial tire radial-ply tire | pneumatic tire that has radial-ply casing |
snowbank snow bank | a mound or heap of snow |
snow thrower snow blower | a machine that removes snow by scooping it up and throwing it forcefully through a chute |
snow tire | an automobile pneumatic tire with deep tread to give traction in snow |
tire tyre | hoop that covers a wheel, automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air |
tire chain snow chain | chain attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow |
tire iron tire tool | hand tool consisting of a lever that is used to force the casing of a pneumatic tire onto a steel wheel |
tubeless tubeless tire | pneumatic tire not needing an inner tube to be airtight |
wagon tire | a metal hoop forming the tread of a wheel |
spare tire love handle | excess fat around the waistline |
snow job | a long and elaborate misrepresentation |
Winter Olympic Games Winter Olympics | an Olympics for winter sports |
winter squash | any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months |
winter crookneck squash | a squash with a hard rind and an elongated curved neck |
snow pea sugar pea | green peas with flat edible pods |
winter cress | cress cultivated for winter salads |
winter melon | the fruit of the winter melon vine, a green melon with pale green to orange flesh that keeps well |
lemon sole winter flounder | flesh of American flounder, important in the winter |
winter savory winter savoury | resinous leaves used in stews and stuffings and meat loaf |
snow line | the line on a mountain above which there is perpetual snow and ice |
Sur Tyre | a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea, formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks |
Jones Bobby Jones Robert Tyre Jones | United States golfer (-) |
Snow C. P. Snow Charles Percy Snow Baron Snow of Leicester | English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (-) |
nuclear winter | a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war, a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun, most living organisms would perish |
chinook chinook wind snow eater | a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies |
snow snowfall | precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals |
flurry snow flurry | a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that), he had to close the window against the flurries, there was a flurry of chicken feathers |
ice crystal snow mist diamond dust poudrin ice needle frost snow frost mist | small crystals of ice |
Japan allspice Japanese allspice winter sweet Chimonanthus praecox | deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers |
winter aconite Eranthis hyemalis | small Old World perennial herb grown for its bright yellow flowers which appear in early spring often before snow is gone |
Christmas rose winter rose black hellebore Helleborus niger | European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers |
Winteraceae family Winteraceae winter's bark family | small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera, sometimes included in Magnoliaceae |
winter's bark winter's bark tree Drimys winteri | South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood |
winter sweet poison arrow plant Acocanthera oblongifolia Acocanthera spectabilis | medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits |
snow-in-summer love-in-a-mist Cerastium tomentosum | chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers |
winter purslane miner's lettuce Cuban spinach Montia perfoliata | succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb, grows on dunes and waste ground of Pacific coast of North America |
winter cress St. Barbara's herb scurvy grass | any plant of the genus Barbarea: yellow-flowered Eurasian cresses, widely cultivated for winter salad |
Belle Isle cress early winter cress land cress American cress American watercress Barbarea verna Barbarea praecox | of southwestern Europe, cultivated in Florida |
winter heliotrope sweet coltsfoot Petasites fragrans | European herb with vanilla-scented white-pink flowers |
phantom orchid snow orchid Eburophyton austinae | waxy white nearly leafless plant with stems in clusters and racemes of white flowers, northwestern United States to northern California and east to Idaho |
winter squash winter squash plant | any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall |