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MOSS
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English
 English surname transferred to forename use, derived from medieval Jewish Moss (2), MOSS means "drawn out." Compare with another form of Moss.
Surname or Lastname
English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : unexplained; perhaps a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in eastern Norway, named from mos ‘(bog) moss’ + by ‘farm’.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Gaelic, Indian, Irish, Scottish
Dweller on the Plain; Plain; Flat Area; Peat Moss; Child of the Fields
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, English, Irish, Jamaican, Scandinavian, Scottish
Mossy Place; Son of the Marsh-dwellers; Rock; Coastal Rocks; Son of Carr; Marsh Area; Surname
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Australian, Finnish, Hebrew
Drawn out of the Water
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Australian, Norse, Scandinavian, Scottish
From the Broken Mossy Ground; From the Swampy Place
Boy/Male
Egyptian English
Son.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Messenger.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a brazier, from an agent derivative of Middle High German messinc ‘brass’, German Messing, from Greek mossynoikos (khalkos) ‘Mossynoecan bronze’, named after the people of northeastern Asia Minor who first produced the alloy.German : habitational name from Mössingen in Baden-Württemberg (Messingen in the local dialect), which is recorded as Masginga in 789, probably from the personal name Masco + ingen, suffix of relationship.
Girl/Female
Scottish
From the broken mossy ground.
Girl/Female
Assamese, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu
A Mossy
Male
Hebrew
 Medieval Jewish form of Hebrew Moshe, MOSS means "drawn out." Compare with another form of Moss.
Biblical
rushes; sea-moss
Boy/Male
Biblical
Rushes, sea-moss.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Meece in Staffordshire, named in Old English with mēos ‘moss’.Possibly a variant of Dutch Meese.
Girl/Female
Scottish
From the broken mossy ground.
Surname or Lastname
English and Welsh
English and Welsh : from the personal name Moss, a Middle English vernacular form of the Biblical name Moses.English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived by a peat bog, Middle English, Old English mos, or a habitational name from a place named with this word. (It was not until later that the vocabulary word came to denote the class of plants characteristic of a peat-bog habitat, under the influence of the related Old Norse word mosi.)Americanized form of Moses or some other like-sounding Jewish surname.Irish (Ulster) : part translation of Gaelic Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmhóna’, a personal name composed of the elements maol ‘servant’, ‘tonsured one’, ‘devotee’ + a second element which was assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland’, ‘peat bog’.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Shabalini | ஷபாலிநீ
A mossy
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n.
The calyptra of mosses.
n.
A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Moss
a.
Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.
n.
A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.
superl.
Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
n.
A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
n.
Alt. of Mossbunker
superl.
Resembling moss; as, mossy green.
n.
A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
n.
A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.
a.
Overgrown with moss.
n.
A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.
n.
The state of being mossy.
v. t.
To cover or overgrow with moss.
imp. & p. p.
of Moss
a.
Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.
n.
A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.
n.
One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.