moss
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1. moss - Noun
2. moss - Verb
3. Moss - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
To cover or overgrow with moss.
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A rolling stone can gather no moss.
On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
A rolling stone is not covered with moss.
Once dead the good and the bad are covered by the same moss.
A stone that gathers no moss will be washed away by the river.