See also:

• SLEET (either from Nor. sletta, of the same meaning, or related to Ger. Schlosse, hailstone)

SLEET (either from Nor. sletta, of the same meaning, or related to Ger. Schlosse, hailstone)  , that See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of precipitation of See also:

• WATER

water vapour condensed from the See also:

• ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere, which reaches the ground in a partly frozen See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition . See also:

• SLEET (either from Nor. sletta, of the same meaning, or related to Ger. Schlosse, hailstone)

Sleet may originate in the upper atmosphere either as See also:

• RAIN (O.E. regn; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Regen, Swed. and Dan. regn; it has been connected with Lat. rigare, to wet, Gr. 13pixeav)

rain, in which See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case, to become partly frozen, it must have fallen into a stratum of See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air colder than that in which it originated, or as See also:

• SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow, when the opposite must have taken See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, i.e. the snow in its descent must have encountered an air-temperature slightly above the freezing-point .