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- Moss - n. - A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
- Moss - n. - A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
- Moss - v. t. - To cover or overgrow with moss.
- Moss-grown - a. - Overgrown with moss.
- Mossback - n. - A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss.
- Mossbanker - n. - Alt. of Mossbunker
- Mossbunker - n. - The menhaded.
- Mossed - imp. & p. p. - of Moss
- Mossiness - n. - The state of being mossy.
- Mossing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Moss
- Mosstrooper - n. - One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.
- Mossy - superl. - Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
- Mossy - superl. - Resembling moss; as, mossy green.
- Dendrite - n. - A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.
- Hepatica - n. - Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement.
- Sphagnicolous - a. - Growing in moss of the genus Sphagnum.
- Agar-agar - n. - A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).
- Bog - n. - A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
- Ventral - a. - Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.
- Lichenin - n. - A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss.
- Lichen - n. - One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss.
- Decorticator - n. - A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.
- Blackmail - n. - A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.
- Anophyte - n. - A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.
- Carrigeen - n. - A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.
- Sphagnous - a. - Pertaining to moss of the genus Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss.