mossrush

Botany: Juncus squarrosus, a rush, with a rigid stem, four to six inches high. mo -trooper, subst . A common name for the marauders who infested the mo es or borderland of England and Scotland previous to the union of the two kingdoms. "There was still a large cla of mo - troopers , whose calling was to plunder dwellings and to drive away whole herds of cattle." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. iii. *mo -troopery, s. The practices of the mo troopers. "Much mo -troopery and horse-stealing."-Carlyle: Letters and Speeches of Cromwell, iii. 162. mo ed, a. [Eng. mo ; -ed.] Covered or overgrown with mo . "An oak, whose boughs were mo ed with age." Shakesp.: As You Like It, iv. 3. mo -I-ne , s. [Eng. mo y; -ne .] 1. The quality of being mo y or overgrown with mo . 2. A mo y substance or growth. "Their down or mo ine healeth carbuncles."_P. Holland: Pliny, bk. xxiii., ch. vi.