moss a gate (mosag"at)

A kind of agate containing brown or black mo -like dendritic forms, due to the oxids of manganese or iron distributed through the ma . Also called dendrachate. mo -alcohol (môs ́al kō-hol), n. See alcohol, 1. mo -animal (môs'ani-mal), IMG:content-0986.jpg:[blocks in formation] malcule. mo -animalcule (môs'an-i-mal" kūl), n. bryozoan or polyzoan: so called from the mo y appearance of some of them, especially the phylactolæmatous polyzoans, translating the up and more or le blown away, or washed away by the rain, so as to leave a curiously irregular surface, over which it is hardly po ible to walk with safety. [Scotch.] mo head (môsʼhed), n. The hooded merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus. [South Carolina.] The colored women often use a large bunch of "Florida mo ," Tillandsia usneoides, as a cushion for the heavy loads they carry on their heads, and I am inclined to believe that mo head was suggested by this practice, rather than by any direct resemblance to mo in the bird's G. Trumbull , Bird Names (1888), p. 75. IMG:content-0987.png:[blocks in formation]