snow

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a street name for cocaine

   We were accosted by a drunk party guest asking if we had any snow.

2. 2
   noun

   precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

   I couldn't see through the snow, so I pulled the car over immediately.

3. 3
   noun

   a layer of snowflakes covering the ground

   I woke up to a blanket of snow covering the city.

4. 4
   verb

   to conceal one's true motives from someone, especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end

   The sociopath snowed their selfish plans from their new partner.

5. 5
   verb

   to fall as snow

   It was snowing all night.

6. 6
   noun

   The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.

   Snow is white, / And lieth in the dike. And every man lets it lye.

7. 7
   noun

   Something resembling snow (etymology 1, noun sense 1) in appearance or color.

   apple snow    lemon snow

8. 8
   verb

   Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.

   It is snowing.    It started to snow.

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English snaw, snou, snow (“snow; accumulation of snow; snowfall; snowstorm; whiteness”), from Old English snāw (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw (“snow”), from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (“snow”), from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”). The verb is derived from Middle English snouen (“to snow; (figurative) to shower”), from snou, snow (noun) (see above) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). Displaced Old English snīwan, whence English snew (obsolete). Verb etymology 1, verb sense 2.3.2 (“to convince or hoodwink (s…