Definition of Lichening

1. lichen [v] - See also: lichen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lichening

lichen scrofulosorum
lichen simplex chronicus
lichen spinulosus
lichen striatus
lichen strophulosus
lichen syphiliticus
lichen tropicus
lichen urticatus
lichened
lichenic
lichenification
lichenifications
licheniform
lichenin
lichening
lichenins
lichenization
lichenized
lichenless
lichenlike
lichenographic
lichenographical
lichenographist
lichenographists
lichenography
lichenoid
lichenoid amyloidosis
lichenoid dermatosis
lichenoid eczema

Literary usage of Lichening

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

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"The mould of vanity was lichening over the fallen days of his past—ay! of his past ; that dismal tense of life when the days, months, years lie prostrate, ..."

2. The Chinese by John Stuart Thomson (1909)
"It is the only house you have ever seen in China where the blue stucco is not scaling or lichening like an architectural leper. You are told the owner is a ..."

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