Word Meanings - MOSSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams. Old trees are more mossy far than young. Bacon. 2. Resembling moss; as, mossy green.

Related words: (words related to MOSSY)

• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• GREENLET
  l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• GREENSAND
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• GREENWEED
  See GREENBROOM
• EDGELESS
  Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• GREENHORN
  A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
• GREEN-STALL
  A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
• GREENISH
  Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• GREENBACKER
  One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• LEDGEMENT
  See LEDGMENT
• WEDGY
  Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• AYEGREEN
  The houseleek . Halliwell.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• BRUNSWICK GREEN
  An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE