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A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.

Overgrown with moss.

is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. [Political Slang, U.S.]

The menhaded.

The state of being mossy.

infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.

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

reatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all. "Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness." Prov. xx. 6. The cities wherein most of his mighty works were done. Matt. xi. 20.

See Mustaiba.

of Mote. Chaucer.

A painter's maul-stick.

For the greatest part; for the most part; chiefly; in the main.

See Direct, n.

For the most part. [Obs.] "All the rest do mostwhat far amiss." Spenser.

An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.

Nearest the stern.

in by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose.

Alms. [Obs.] Cheke.

Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part. Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts xxvi. 28. Almost never, scarcely ever. -- Almost nothing, scarcely anything.