a. Also 4–5 snowisse, 5 -ych, 6 -yshe, snawishe, 7 Sc. -isch. [f. SNOW sb.1]

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  † 1.  Resembling snow in whiteness; snowy, snow-white. Obs.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Troylus, III. 1250. Her snowisse throte, hir brestis rounde and lyte.

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1433.  Lydg., S. Edmund, App. 189. A dowe with snowych fetherys whight.

4

1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xxxvii. 9. This angellis weid wes snawith [read -ich] in cullour.

5

1540.  Palsgrave, Acolastus, II. ii. O Festyuall daye, worthy a snowyshe lytell stone.

6

1589.  Warner, Alb. Eng., IV. xx. Her Snowish necke with blewish Vaines.

7

1603.  Philotus, lxi. Ȝour snawisch cheiks lyke quhytest Allabast.

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  2.  Characterized by the presence or prevalence of snow; somewhat snowy.

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1566.  Drant, Horace, Sat., II. vi. H vj b. Though whiskinge wyndes, do shaue the earth, and though the snawishe day, Be shorte, and sharpe.

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  † 3.  Covered with snow. Obs.–1

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1589.  Fleming, Virg. Georg., IV. 75. Tanais floud all snowish (or all ouerlaid with snow), And grounds at no time void of frosts.

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