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Definition of Mossiest
1. mossy [adj] - See also: mossy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mossiest
Literary usage of Mossiest
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 (1909)
""Ah," he said, "I have done fifty, without food, over the roughest and mossiest
mountains. | lived on what I shot, and for drink I had spring water. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1915)
"... and a single fruit of the largest and " mossiest" type from Illinois (Adams).
Below, two of the more typical acorns of different cup-depth, ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"The extremely foggy weather, which at the Grove obscures the sun for days, imparts
a gloomy, solemn aspect to the pine woods, the dampest and mossiest ..."
4. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America by Bibliographical Society of America (1917)
"Many a more important problem, however, has been driven far toward solution; and
it will be only the staunchest and mossiest of professors whose Shakespeare ..."
5. The Fortnightly Review (1871)
"Then, from out of the mossiest hiding-places, Peep sweet moonlight-coloured faces
Of pale primroses puritan, In maiden sisterhoods demure ; Each virgin ..."
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