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单词 snow-water
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snow-watern.

Forms: Also snow water.
Etymology: < snow n.1 Compare Frisian sniewetter, Middle Dutch snee(u)water (Dutch sneeuwwater), Middle High German snêwazzer (German schneewasser), etc.
Water derived or obtained from melted snow. Also transferred.
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c1175 Lamb. Hom. 159 Þe ter þet mon schet for his emcristenes sunne is inemned snaw water, for hit melt of þe neche horte swa deð þe snaw to-ȝeines þe sunne.
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 122 If I be waschyd with snaw watyr.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job ix. 30 Though I wasshed my self with snowe water.
1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 18 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. In Spaine they coole their wine by setting the flagons in snow water.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta Introd. 10 Snow-waters are grosse and ouer-cold.
1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 74 Several streams of Snow-water run down in the Cliffs of the Hills.
1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry III. 454 He rejects snow water for the same reason.
1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. i. 69 The inhabitants of the Peak of Derby..have large tumours or wains on their necks. This disease is generally imputed to the snow-water.
1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 278 We supped on wild beef and snow-water.
1855 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci.: Elem. Chem. 299 Even rain and snow-water are far from pure.
1903 A. C. P. Haggard Sporting Yarns 273 The snow water used to come down the Don every afternoon.
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