a. and adv. [f. SNOW sb.1]
A. adj. Like or resembling snow in color, appearance, etc.
1663. S. Patrick, Parab. Pilgr., xxxv. (1687), 433. But after their resurrection they were of a pure white snow-like colour.
1694. Salmon, Bate’s Dispens. (1713), 209/1. With a Glass Spoon take off the Snow-like Cream as it arises.
1820. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., II. iv. 95. Cities then Were built, and through their snow-like columns flowed The warm winds.
1836–41. Brande, Chem., 526. Another portion is frozen into a white snow-like solid.
1895. Swettenham, Malay Sketches, 126. A motionless drift of snow-like cloud.
B. adv. In or after the manner of snow.
1850. Mrs. Browning, Man’s Requirem., iv. Their lids, that fall Snow-like at first meeting.
