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It impressed Evan, not because of his mossiness altogether, but because of his youth, and of youth's anxiety to make good.

From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.

The sun shone brightly on those two black figures, so very different, and drew out of their well-worn garments the faint latent green mossiness which. underlies the clothes of clergymen.

From Saint's Progress by Galsworthy, John

There was no spruceness of biweekly mowing about the lawn, no ambitious spick-and-spanness about the old, white, wooden, green-blinded cottage itself, but rather a restful mossiness of ancient respectability.

From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward

Sometimes, when the good Knight his rest would take, It is reflected, clearly, in a lake, With the young ashen boughs, 'gainst which it rests, And th' half seen mossiness of linnets' nests.

From Poems 1817 by Keats, John

Muscol′ogist, one skilled in muscology; Muscol′ogy, the part of botany which treats of mosses; Muscos′ity, mossiness.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various