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Definition of Moss-grown

1. Adjective. Overgrown with moss.

2. Adjective. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned. "Moss-grown ideas about family life"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moss-grown

mosquito fern mosquito forceps mosquito hawk mosquito net mosquito nets mosquitocidal mosquitocide mosquitocides mosquitoed mosquitoes

mosquitoey mosquitofish mosquitofishes mosquitos moss moss-grown (current term) moss-lichen wetland moss-trooper moss agate moss animal

moss campion moss family moss frog moss genus moss green moss lawn moss locust moss phlox moss pink moss starch

Literary usage of Moss-grown

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1856)
"... and blind to the cautions of judgment ; it can penetrate the prairies of Arkansas, and covet the moss-grown barrens of the Esquimaux. ..."

2. On the Study of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold (1867)
"... to guide one, such things as Virgil's " moss-grown springs and grass softer than sleep ... mossgrown ..."

3. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"By the moss-grown pile he sate; Odin 18. The Court was sate, LS 97. That Day, and yet another, mute we sate, Dante 70. Satin-doublet. His high-crown'd hat, ..."

4. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake (1875)
"A moss-grown MEMORIAL. I acknowledge it, I am the fool of association; and when I see the spade thrust among graves, I wince a little. ..."

5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"Thus if the nest be built against the side of a hayrick, hay is used; if against the trunk of a moss-grown tree, that moss is employed. ..."

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