Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being mossy, or overgrown with moss.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being mossy.
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- noun The state or condition of being
mossy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It dries down to deep mossiness that I found irresistible.
Archive 2009-03-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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It dries down to deep mossiness that I found irresistible.
DSH Perfumes Part Five: Palace of The Sun King (And a Prize Draw) Marina Geigert 2009
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Taking breaks on a road trip is hardly difficult when you are in Northern California where the green makes you dizzy and you want to jump around and roll in all its mossiness.
Archive 2008-11-01 jek-a-go-go 2008
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Taking breaks on a road trip is hardly difficult when you are in Northern California where the green makes you dizzy and you want to jump around and roll in all its mossiness.
not your average folk jek-a-go-go 2008
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But wait, above the old medicine cabinet from the house next door that we bought and demolished to build our garage, more mossiness has appeared.
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For the first, the ornaments of images gilt, or of marble, which are in use, do well: but the main matter is so to convey the water, as it never stay, either in the bowls or in the cistern; that the water be never by rest discolored, green or red or the like; or gather any mossiness or putrefaction.
The Essays 2007
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Grief with a glass that ran -- of Swinburne, or the mossiness of Mallarmé, Pound's verse is always definite and concrete, because he has always a definite emotion behind it.
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For the first, the ornaments of images gilt, or of marble, which are in use, do well: but the main matter is so to convey the water, as it never stay, either in the bowls or in the cistern; that the water be never by rest discolored, green or red or the like; or gather any mossiness or putrefaction.
XLVI. Of Gardens 1909
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The sun shone brightly on those two black figures, so very different, and drew out of their well-worn garments the faint latent green mossiness which. underlies the clothes of clergymen.
Saint's Progress John Galsworthy 1900
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The sun shone brightly on those two black figures, so very different, and drew out of their well-worn garments the faint latent green mossiness which. underlies the clothes of clergymen.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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