a square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.-watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.-fig.: something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.-to fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.-to scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.