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snow-storm
Also snowstorm.
[f. snow n.1 Cf. G. schneesturm, Sw. snöstorm.]
1. A storm accompanied by a heavy fall of snow.
1771A. G. Winslow Diary 6 Dec. (1895) 8, I was prevented dining at unkle Joshua's by a snow storm. a1800Pegge Suppl. Grose, Snow-storm, a continued snow so long as it lies on the ground. North. 1813Shelley Q. Mab viii. 60 Those wastes of frozen billows that were hurled By everlasting snowstorms round the poles. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxiv. 170, I..climbed amid a heavy snow-storm to the Cleft station. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 17 Bidding care Keep outside with the snow-storm.
fig.1869‘Mark Twain’ Innocents Abroad xiii. 125 A snow⁓storm of waving handkerchiefs. 1893F. F. Moore I Forbid Banns (1899) 141 The next day there was a snow-storm, with invitation cards for flakes, on her table. 1896Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 7/2 He lived in a snow-storm of letters asking him for money.
2. A paperweight or toy in the form of a transparent dome or globe containing a representation of a scene and loose snow-like particles, which, when shaken, creates the appearance of a snow-storm. Also attrib.
1926‘O. Douglas’ Proper Place xvii. 149 A round glass globe containing a miniature cottage, which, when shaken, became surrounded with whirling snowflakes. ‘It's a snow-storm,’ she declared triumphantly. 1931E. Sackville-West Simpson ii. 144 Salathiel held up a glass globe, inside which was a minute Scotch-baronial castle...He shook the globe and a whirlwind of white flakes swirled up... The Snowstorm jerked downwards in his hand. 1939C. Morley Kitty Foyle (1940) xxxii. 332 It's good to have a person call your attention to something you're so used to you almost forgot thinking about it. I mean the glass snowstorm ball. Molly's back in Chicago and I take the glass ball and give it a whirl. 1947‘D. Yates’ Berry Scene x. 273 My eye was caught by a snowstorm—one of those little glass balls, with a baby cottage inside. And when you shake it, snow-flakes begin to fall. 1967M. Drabble Jerusalem the Golden v. 101 Toys..a tower of bricks, a weather house, a huge pendant snowstorm globe containing a small palace and a small forest. 1975S. Lauder Killing Time on Corvo ix. 85, I recalled, as a child, staring entranced into Modrinka's snowstorm paper-weight.
3. fig. An appearance of dense snow on a television or radar screen. Cf. snow n.1 5 f.
1948Nature 31 Jan. 167/1 The visual effect was that of a violent snowstorm of the type well known to televiewers due to motor-car ignition interference, but at a very much more intense level. 1974L. Deighton Spy Story xviii. 195 The radar screen was a snowstorm that dashed..in a mad rhythm. 1980J. B. Hilton Anathema Stone i. 16 The television set..produced a snow-storm on every channel. |