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Definition of Mossiness
1. n. The state of being mossy.
Definition of Mossiness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being mossy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mossiness
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Medical Definition of Mossiness
1. The state of being mossy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mossiness
Literary usage of Mossiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... beauty of its mossiness. Celina and Lane's are good varieties, and some of
the newer kinds have good flowers when full-blown. ..."
2. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1913)
"... as it grew black in the prevalent east wind, — pointing, too, here and there,
at some spot of more verdant mossiness on its roof and walls, ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1878)
"... either in the bowls or in the cistern; that the water be never by rest
discoloured, green or red or the like; or gather any mossiness or putrefaction. ..."
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