Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Overgrown with moss.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Overgrown with moss; mossy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
  • adjective overgrown with moss

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Examples

  • No matter what happens in Wednesday's Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, you can say this about the last six years in sports: It's been a wonderful ride for purists, history buffs, musty old fogies, moss-grown fuddy-duddies, unapologetic curmudgeons and anyone who has spent the last six decades in a Cryogenic tube.

    Score One for the Ghosts of History Mike Sielski and 2011

  • No matter what happens in Wednesday's Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, you can say this about the last six years in sports: It's been a wonderful ride for purists, history buffs, musty old fogies, moss-grown fuddy-duddies, unapologetic curmudgeons and anyone who has spent the last six decades in a Cryogenic tube.

    Score One for the Ghosts of History Mike Sielski and 2011

  • He crossed to its little moss-grown bowl and drank until his mummy gullet felt alive again.

    do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

  • My really preferred diet is century-old vampire-flesh, obtained from the shadowed & moss-grown churchyards where certain evil sorcerers were interred 200 years or more ago, there to lie fat and fresh through the generations, silent & unstirring save when their misty emanations steal forth after sunset to afflict the countryside & exact a hideous toll from lone wayfarers.

    In the footsteps of Mythos… (updated) « Skulls in the Stars 2007

  • You travel somewhere not for museums and sunsets but for ruins, bombed-out terrain, for the moss-grown memory of torture and war.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • But now the vault which had covered it being broken down and riven, and the Gothic font ruined and demolished, the stream burst forth from the recess of the earth in open day, and winded its way among the broken sculpture and moss-grown stones which lay in confusion around its source.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • You travel somewhere not for museums and sunsets but for ruins, bombed-out terrain, for the moss-grown memory of torture and war.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • You travel somewhere not for museums and sunsets but for ruins, bombed-out terrain, for the moss-grown memory of torture and war.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Above a foundation of moss-grown, crumbling stones was a trellis of rotten wood, half fallen from decay; over them clambered and intertwined at will a mass of clustering creepers.

    Eug�nie Grandet 2007

  • Indeed, in the midst of the fields, even a hovel may have a certain grace derived from the pure air, the verdure, the open country — a hill, a serpentine road, vineyards, quickset hedges, moss-grown thatch and rural implements; but poverty in

    Le Colonel Chabert 2007

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