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ˈmoss-grown, a.
[f. moss n.1 + grown.]
Overgrown with moss.
13..Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LVII. 277 A Mos growen wal he gan fynde þer þe ȝate was wont to be. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 33 Which.. tombles downe Steeples, and mosse-growne Towers. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1859) 46 Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.
b. fig. Antiquated.
1893L. F. Townsend in J. H. Barrows Parl. Relig. II. 1221 Dr. Channing..saw, as he thought, the speedy..burial of the moss-grown doctrines of Bible orthodoxy. 1902A. B. Davidson Called of God viii. 215 Even the holiest things had become mouldy, moss-grown and eaten away. |