Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A freeing from moss.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete, rare The removal of moss.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A freeing from moss.
Etymologies
- Latin emuscare to clear from moss; e out + muscus moss. (Wiktionary)
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘emuscation’.
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Obsolete, rare, and obscure words culled from my Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabi...rouzie-bouzie, knuckylbonyard, ferrups, defease, malahane, accinge, venundate, pinguidity, preterlapsed, wlatsome, emuscation, atbraid and 427 more...
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
subcontinental, unoriental, ultraviolet, tourmaline, sequoia, jacqueminot, milquetoast, xenosaurid, thunderation, adenovirus, accoutering, absolutive and 2777 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Doug's Word List
Various new and interesting words stumbled upon in my reading - begun 6 Dec 09
emuscation, adnascent, ablaqueation, decubation, stercoration, Mirabile dictu, ouranic
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mollusque How else would you prepare the stones to roll? Jan 15, 2008
reesetee Hmm. I'll have to check with my father on this. I've never heard him express an opinion one way or another. (We didn't have much moss where we grew up.) Jan 14, 2008
yarb As a boy, I spent an afternoon removing a thick, probably centuries-old layer of moss from a large bluff, which landed me in hot water with my father who was never a believer in emuscation. Jan 14, 2008
reesetee Wow! Who knew we needed this word? ;-) Jan 14, 2008
mollusque Removal of moss. Jan 14, 2008