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Word Meanings - MOSSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams. Old trees are more mossy far than young. Bacon. 2. Resembling moss; as, mossy green.

Related words: (words related to MOSSY)

  • YOUNGISH
    Somewhat young. Tatler.
  • GREENLANDER
    A native of Greenland.
  • GREENLET
    l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
  • BACON
    The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
  • YOUNGLY
    Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
  • BACONIAN
    Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
  • GREENSAND
    A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
  • GREENFISH
    See POLLOCK
  • GREENOCKITE
    Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
  • GREENHOUSE
    A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
  • GREENWEED
    See GREENBROOM
  • YOUNG
    , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
  • EDGELESS
    Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
  • YOUNGTH
    Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
  • GREENHORN
    A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
  • GREEN-STALL
    A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
  • GREENISH
    Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
  • YOUNGNESS
    The quality or state of being young.
  • GREENBACKER
    One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
  • GREENGAGE
    A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
  • PREKNOWLEDGE
    Prior knowledge.
  • LEDGEMENT
    See LEDGMENT
  • WEDGY
    Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
  • LEADING EDGE
    same as Advancing edge, above.
  • AYEGREEN
    The houseleek . Halliwell.
  • INTERPLEDGE
    To pledge mutually.
  • BRUNSWICK GREEN
    An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
  • FOLLOWING EDGE
    See ABOVE

 

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