Snow
Snow is a crystalline form of solid water or ice, consisting of a multitude of snow flakes. Since snow is a composite of innumerable discrete entities, each of which is unevenly formed, it is an open structure which makes it soft, unless packed together by external pressure. Snow is commonly formed as water vapor sublimates at high altitude in the atmosphere and subsequently falls to the surface of the earth.
Snow is a prerequisite for many of the winter sports and much beloved by children. In regions where snow is scarce but temperature low enough, snow cannons may be utilized to produce an adequate amount for sporting purposes.
Snow may be used as a construction material, and is the primary component in for example Inuit snowhouses.
Snow is a slang term for cocaine.
Snow, born 1971 as Darrin O'Brien in Toronto, Canada, is an award-winning musician and video artist. His single "Informer" is one of the largest-selling reggae records of all time. His debut album was called 12 Inches of Snow (1992).
A snow was a two-masted merchant vessel of the 16th through the 19th centuries, the largest two-masted ship of her period with a tonnage of up to around 1,000 tons, primarily a merchant ship but also used at war. She carried square sails on both masts, but had a small trysail mast (also called a snowmast) stepped immediately abaft the mainmast from which a trysail with a boom was set, with the luff of the trysail hooped to it. At times the trysail mast was replaced by a horse on the mainmast, to which the luff of the trysail was attached by rings.