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MOSS
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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’.
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Assamese, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu
A Mossy
Biblical
rushes; sea-moss
Girl/Female
Tamil
Shabalini | ஷபாலிநீ
A mossy
Shabalini | ஷபாலிநீ
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Scottish
From the broken mossy ground.
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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.
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Scottish
From the broken mossy ground.
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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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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’.
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Egyptian English
Son.
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Biblical
Rushes, sea-moss.
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Australian, Norse, Scandinavian, Scottish
From the Broken Mossy Ground; From the Swampy Place
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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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English
English : habitational name from Meece in Staffordshire, named in Old English with mēos ‘moss’.Possibly a variant of Dutch Meese.
Male
Hebrew
 Medieval Jewish form of Hebrew Moshe, MOSS means "drawn out." Compare with another form of Moss.
Boy/Male
Australian, Finnish, Hebrew
Drawn out of the Water
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
Male
English
 English surname transferred to forename use, derived from medieval Jewish Moss (2), MOSS means "drawn out." Compare with another form of Moss.
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American, Australian, British, English, French
Rye Hill; From the King's Hill; From the Rye Hill
Female
African
immortal.
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Greek
Of the new city.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord of brilliance
Girl/Female
Irish
High honor.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Victory
Girl/Female
Christian, French, German, Norse
Bright; Renowned Northerner; Female Version of Norbert; Northern Light
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Hindu
Girl/Female
Muslim
Acclaim
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Arabic
Flower
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MOSS
n.
A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.
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.
n.
A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
a.
Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.
superl.
Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
n.
A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.
a.
Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.
superl.
Resembling moss; as, mossy green.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Moss
a.
Overgrown with moss.
n.
The state of being mossy.
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.
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Moss
n.
Alt. of Mossbunker
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.
n.
The calyptra of mosses.
v. t.
To cover or overgrow with moss.