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past tense (oh) and moss(1) (iou)


past tense (oh)



n [C]
a form of a verb that shows that something happened or existed before the present time, typically a form such as 'walked', as in 'I walked away'

moss(1) (iou)



moss noun.
[Old English mos = Middle Low German, Middle Dutch mos bog, moss (Dutch mos), Old High German mos (German Moos), from Germanic word rel. to Old Norse mosi bog, moss & ult. to Latin muscus moss.]
I.
a. A bog, a swamp; esp. a peat-bog. Scot. & north. OE.
b. Wet spongy soil. Scot. & north. L16.
In full moss-crop. Either of the two common kinds of cotton-grass, Eriophorum vaginatum and E. angustifolium. Scot. & north. L15.
II.
A plant of the class Musci, comprising small bryophtes with scalelike leaves usu. spirally arranged and the spore-capsule usu. opening by a lid, which grow in crowded masses in bogs, on the surface of the ground, on stones, trees, etc.; collect. the mass formed by such a plant. Also, any of certain algae, lichens, pteridophytes, or flowering plants resembling moss in habit; rare seaweed. OE.
bog-moss, Ceylon moss, clubmoss, hair moss, Iceland moss, running moss, sphagnum moss, etc.
R. K. Narayan There was still one step..slippery with moss.
a. An excrescence or incrustation resembling moss; esp. the covering of the calyx and pedicels of the moss rose. E17.
b. A kind of sugar coating. E18-M19.
c. Hair. slang. M20.
In full moss rose. A cultivar of the cabbage rose, Rosa centifolia, with a mosslike covering of glands on the calyx and freq. also the pedicels. L18.
ellipt. Moss green. L19.
Comb.: moss agate a variety of agate containing brown or black mosslike dendritic forms; moss-bag Canad. a light board with a cloth flap attached to each side, used by Indians to carry a baby with the flaps laced together and a lining of moss; moss-berry the cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos; moss campion a pink-flowered, almost stemless campion, Silene acaulis, found in mountains and on northern coasts; moss-cheeper dial. (a) the meadow pipit, Anthus pratensis; (b) the reed bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus; moss-crop: see sense 2 above; moss green a green colour resembling that of moss; moss-grown adjective overgrown with moss; fig. antiquated; moss-hag Scot. broken ground or a hole from which peat has been dug; moss horn US = MOSSY horn; moss-house a Garden shelter lined or covered with moss; moss-oak ancient oak-wood preserved in a blackened state in peat-bogs etc.; bog-oak; moss opal a variety of opal containing dendritic markings like those of moss agate; moss-peat peat formed from mosses, esp. those of the genus Sphagnum; moss pink a low-growing phlox, Phlox subulata, of the central US, with pink, violet, etc., flowers; moss rose: see sense 5 above; moss-stitch alternation of plain and purl stitches in knitting; moss-wood the wood of trees found buried in peat-bogs.
mosslike adjective resembling moss M17.