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Snowy   /snˈoʊi/   Listen
adjective
Snowy  adj.  
1.
White like snow. "So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows."
2.
Abounding with snow; covered with snow. "The snowy top of cold Olympus."
3.
Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless. "There did he lose his snowy innocence."
Snowy heron (Zool.), a white heron, or egret (Ardea candidissima), found in the Southern United States, and southward to Chile; called also plume bird.
Snowy lemming (Zool.), the collared lemming (Cuniculus torquatus), which turns white in winter.
Snowy owl (Zool.), a large arctic owl (Nyctea Scandiaca, or Nyctea nivea) common all over the northern parts of the United States and Europe in winter time. Its plumage is sometimes nearly pure white, but it is usually more or less marked with blackish spots. Called also white owl.
Snowy plover (Zool.), a small plover (Aegialitis nivosa) of the western parts of the United States and Mexico. It is light gray above, with the under parts and portions of the head white.






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"Snowy" Quotes from Famous Books



... are turning into a throng of children—countless children. With snowy robes are they wrapped. Their arms are wings of feathery softness, and white and shining hair doth blow across their faces! Aye—how beautiful, and a golden glow shines over them. Stay! Children, stay!" and Mary pressed her hands together and ...
— The Coming of the King • Bernie Babcock

... tall and slight, a little stooped, all in black, with an ample black velvet tunic, which was rather a gown than a coat, with loose sleeves, showing his snowy shirt some way up the arm, and a pair of wrist buttons, then quite out of fashion, ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu

... ribbon, and now and then descending between steep chalk cuttings in slopes, down which the carriage slowly scrooped on its drag, leaving a broad blue-flecked trail. Dr. Spencer was asleep, hat off, and the wind lifting his snowy locks, and she wished the others were; but Aubrey lamented on the heat and the length, and Leonard leant back in his ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge

... crust. To the rabbit's ears the sound conveyed no threat, so he hopped nearer to investigate. What he saw beneath the clear shell of ice was a cock-partridge, his wings half-spread, his head thrown back in the struggle to break from his snowy grave. His curiosity satisfied, the rabbit bounded away again, and fell to nibbling the young birch-twigs. Of small concern to him was the ...
— The Watchers of the Trails - A Book of Animal Life • Charles G. D. Roberts

... refinement. I like to shut myself up, close my eyes, and fancy one of the creatures of my imagination, with taper and rose-tipped fingers, playing with my hair, touching my cheek, or resting its little snowy-dimpled hand on mine. I like to fancy the fairy foot, round and pulpy, but small to diminutiveness, peeping from beneath the drapery that half conceals it, or moving in the mazes of the dance. I detest thin women; and unfortunately all, or nearly all plump ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, - Issue 572, October 20, 1832 • Various


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