Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cloud from which snow is falling or is likely to fall.

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Examples

  • The air and the ground stood at freezing point, and a heavy layer of yellowish snow-cloud hung like a threat over the afternoon.

    The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

  • The moon, in her third quarter, had risen since the snowstorm; but the dense accumulation of snow-cloud weakened her power to a faint twilight, which was rather pervasive of the landscape than traceable to the sky.

    Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

  • He puts his trust in a snow-cloud: the Wilderness, the Wind, the Hail-Storm are his refuge: his allies are the elements - Air, Fire, Water.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • The air and the ground stood at freezing point, and a heavy layer of yellowish snow-cloud hung like a threat over the afternoon.

    Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

  • Suppose their coach, which had directly preceded the observation car, had escaped; the snow-cloud, parting on the mountain top, showed that the roofs of the station still remained.

    The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

  • Bang! bang! roared the heavy double-barrel, as the white snow-cloud was lit up for an instant with the crimson tongues of levin-fire, and the huge leader, with a broken wing, fell on the limp body of his dead mate.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • They could see the dim forms of these now and then as the snow-cloud changed.

    Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

  • When the snow-cloud lifted, the Pass was still completely veiled from him, and the peak the prospector's party had ascended was then cut off by the intervening ridge.

    The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

  • Rough Brother North Wind was doing his best to blow up another snow-cloud.

    Burgess Bird Book for Children 1919

  • There, above the sky of the horizon, apparently suspended in mid-air half-way to the zenith, hung like delicate bubbles the double snow-cloud peaks of

    African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

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