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gth, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands. [Written also Mososaurus.]

A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot. Loudon.

Of or pertaining to Moschus, a genus including the musk deer.

See Muzzle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A light wine, usually white, produced in the vicinity of the river Moselle.

A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.

To go, or move (in a certain manner); -- usually with out, off, along, etc. [Colloq.] E. N. Wescott.

See Mosque.

A Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also muslim.] "Heaps of slaughtered Moslem." Macaulay. They piled the ground with Moslem slain. Halleck.

Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins. Simmonds.

Same as Mosasaurus.

A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship. [Written also mosk.]

ith some pain. The larvæ and pupæ, called wigglers, are aquatic. [Written also musquito.] Mosquito bar, Mosquito net, a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows. -- Mosquito fleet, a fleet of small vessels. -- Mosquito hawk (Zoöl.), a dragon fly; -- so called because it captures and feeds…

A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.…

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.