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Snowball   /snˈoʊbˌɔl/   Listen
noun
Snowball  n.  
1.
A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.
2.
(Bot.) The Guelder-rose.
3.
(Bot.) A shrub of the genus Viburnum, having large clusters of white flowers.
Snowball bush or Snowball tree (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.
a snowball's chance in hell, (Colloq.) no chance; an infinitesimal chance.


verb
Snowball  v. t.  (past & past part. snowballed; pres. part. snowballing)  To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.


Snowball  v. i.  
1.
To throw snowballs.
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.





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... Journal artists: Fredrikke S. Palmer Mrs. Oakes Ames The Woman's Journal Printers: E.L. Grimes, M.J. Grimes, William Grimes Mary A. Livermore William Lloyd Garrison Wendell Phillips Julia Ward Howe Armenia White Margaret Foley Thomas Wentworth Higginson Mrs. David Hunt The Anti and the Snowball ...
— The Torch Bearer - A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the - Woman's Movement • Agnes E. Ryan
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... at the boy, fascinated. He came down the steps whistling, kicking off the snow. He stopped at the foot, and picked up some, and then leaned against the railing, making a snowball. A moment later he looked around and saw Jurgis, and their eyes met; it was a hostile glance, the boy evidently thinking that the other had suspicions of the snowball. When Jurgis started slowly across the street toward him, he gave a quick ...
— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair
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... of Montrose were men not to be daunted by the sublime, yet terrible prospect before them. Many of them were of that ancient race of Highlanders, who not only willingly made their couch in the snow, but considered it as effeminate luxury to use a snowball for a pillow. Plunder and revenge lay beyond the frozen mountains which they beheld, and they did not permit themselves to be daunted by the difficulty of traversing them. Montrose did not allow their spirits time to subside. He ordered the pipes to play in the van the ancient pibroch entitled, ...
— A Legend of Montrose • Sir Walter Scott
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... the blue with his satyr-like brutalities. But in the gay middle period his pages overflow with decorative Cupids and tiny devils, joyful girls, dainty amourettes, and Parisian putti—they blithely kick their legs over the edges of eternity, and smile as if life were a snowball jest or a game at forfeits. They are adorable. His women are usually strong-backed, robust Amazons, drawn with a swirling line and a Rubens-like fulness. They are conquerors. Before these majestic idols men ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker
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... after emerging, and lay about two hundred small eggs to the female, from which the caterpillars soon hatch, and begin their succession of moults. One writer gave black haw and snowball as their favourite foods, and the length of the caterpillar when full grown nearly two inches. They are either a light brown with yellow markings, or green with yellow; all of them have white granules ...
— Moths of the Limberlost • Gene Stratton-Porter
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