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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
snow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ye Boston demoisselle weareth an waterproof guyascutus, [for so methinketh I haue hearde them calld,] and whan that itt rayneth or snoweth, shee rusheth forth as to a carnavall, and heedeth not yf ye powderie snowe-flakes falle on hir daintie littyl nose, or pile up like untoe a chancellor's wigg on hir hed.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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When lofty winds aloud do blow, It snoweth, hail or rain
The Loyal Soldier 1680
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(M205) And the reason why it snoweth there oftener then in France is, because it raineth there but seldome: for the raine is conuerted into snowes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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'Alack, madam,' cried the scholar, 'I pray you for God's sake open to me, so I may abide within under cover, for that this little while past there is come on the thickest snow in the world and it yet snoweth, and I will wait for you as long as it shall please you.'
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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