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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.

A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia.

Covered with moss; mossed. Keats.

A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.

Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss.

no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses.

A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).

A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.

military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses. Gray.

Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy.

Having a treelike appearance. "An arborized or moss agate." Wright.

A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. Mossy benches supplied the place of chairs. Sir W. Scott.