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 DICTIONARY OF AVIATION 203

1. one who smuggles.

2. an aircraft specially adapted to, or engaged in, smug- gling.

snow SNDO. the white, crystallin precipitate falling from the atmosfere in cold wether, fermd by the condensation and freezing of the water:?vapor in the air and aggregation of the ice=crystals so fermd; also, a fall of this matter; a snowfall; a snow^sterm.

diamond snow, fine particles of snow suspended in the air and glistening in the sunshine, occurring in Russia.

snow-banner 'sNOO,b3en3z n. a leng divergent beam or streamer from the top of a mountain, sometimes visible at a distance of 30 or 40 miles, and due to the sunlight en fine particles of snow in the air^currents diverted upward by the mountain when string winds prevail.

snow-blink 'sNDO,bhrjk n. the peculiar reflection that arises from fields of ice or snow; ice^blink; snow^light. compare waterzblink.

snow-craft 'sNoo,k:sa:ft n. craft or knowledge about snow and the best methods of combatting it, as in mountaineer- ing.

snow-crystal 'sNoo,ksistl n. a crystal of snow ; one of the minute crystals in a snowflake.

snow-dust 'sNoo,dAst n. dust composed of particles of snow; fine snow such as that driven along in the porga; snow* dust.

snowfall 'sNoo,fc:l n. the falling of snow; a quiet fall of snow; also, the amount of snow falling in a given time, mesured by its depth either actually as it has fallen or as melted into water.

snow-field 'sNoo,fiild n. a field or wide expanse of snow, especially when permanent, as in the polar regions.

snowflake SNoo,fz.eek n. a flake or small fethery mass of falling snow.

snow-gage 'sNoo,geed3. [also spelt snow*gau,ge~\ a recep- tacle, commonly a galvanized iron cylinder, used for catch- ing falling snow and gaging or mesunng the snowfall.

snow-ice / SNoo,ais n. ice fermd by the freezing of slush or compacted or half^melted snow, especially as occurring in pends, etc. : distinguisht from black ice.

snow-light 'sNOO,}ait n. same meaning as snowzblink.

snow-line 'sNDO,lain n. the line above which there is per- petual snow; the limit, en a mountain^slope, above which there is continual snow all the year round.

snow-sand 'sNoo,saend n. sand^like snow raised by the wind, as in the porga; snow^dust.

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