Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the lichen Usnea barbata, which, often intermixed with others, clothes forest-trees with the shaggy gray fleece of its pendulous thread-like branches; the “idle moss”of Shakspere (C. of E., ii. 2).
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Examples
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His wound was so deep that as Torak clumsily stanched it with beard-moss, he saw his father's guts glistening in the firelight.
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The sluice-gate lay mouldering on the land; the mill-race was moss-grown, and its sides were lined with common fern and beard-moss.
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But here, where the beard-moss hangs from unknown trees, as we tramp through the sweltering sap-scented gloom, we feel ourselves not in a forest but under a cover.
The Pools of Silence 1907
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On some of the trees, like huge withered leaves, hung bats, and from some of the trees the beard-moss hung yards long, and of a spectral gray; the very weeds trodden underfoot were sappy, and the smell of their squirting juice mixed itself with the smell of decay.
The Pools of Silence 1907
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