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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Clad or covered with moss.

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Examples

  • Congratulations, Leila--sorry I've been hiding under a moss-clad rock in northwestern Washington, missing Oakland like anything.

    The Graduate 2007

  • Then, these now moss-clad alleys, and this wild weedy garden, were the resort of the fashionable and the gay.

    Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

  • This path wound back and forth to then summit of Hemlock Mountain, where was an arbor with seats for resting surrounded by majestic trees, and where lovely vistas of the distant hills and nearer valley could be enjoyed, On the gray rocks yonder were nature's moss-clad seats, where one listened to the endless whispering of the leaves, the prattle of the happy brook below, and the ever-changing songs of birds.

    Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain Harriet Manning Whitcomb

  • "And crossing the streams on narrow moss-clad logs, support her with my arm -- as the dearest and most blessed treasure upon earth!" cried

    The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous

  • Islands, forming the delta of Lake Ontario, and covered to this day with timber to the water's edge, islands of all sizes and of all forms, gently rising out of the limpid rippling stream, or boldly standing forth from the deep blue water, presenting a rugged, rocky moss-clad front to the wonderstruck beholder.

    The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger

  • The first begins as a narrow gorge with lofty hemlock and moss-clad mountain sides, and gradually opens out, at

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • And plunged upon the moss-clad boulders of the shore.

    The Minstrel A Collection of Poems Lennox Amott

  • On the cedar-crowned heights of Murree, dank boughs dripped and drooped above ill-made houses, that gave free admittance to the moist outer world; tree ferns, springing to sudden life on moss-clad trunks and boughs, showed brilliant as emeralds on velvet.

    Captain Desmond, V.C. Maud Diver 1906

  • Around it the water swept over moss-clad rocks into a deep pool; above it the arched limbs broke and let in the warm sunlight, making it a grateful spot to one chilled by the dampness of the thicker woods.

    David Malcolm Nelson Lloyd 1903

  • Rachel peered through the gate, but so dense was the gloom in that holy spot that at first she could only see the enormous red bole of the cedar, and the ghostly, moss-clad branches which sprang from it at no great height above the ground.

    The Ghost Kings Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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