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▪ I. † mosy, n. Obs.
A dish in cookery.
14..in Househ. Ord. (1790) 460 Mosy for Soper in Somer. Take smale chekyns and chop hom [etc.].
▪ II. mosy, a. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈməʊzɪ|
Also 5 moosy, 6 moocie, 7, 9 mozy, 9 mosey, mosie, moosie, moozy, mouzy.
[ME. mosy (? OE. *mosiᵹ), f. mos moss n.1 + -y. Cf. mossy a., which is a later formation with the same elements.]
Downy, hairy; = mossy a. 3 and 4.
1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 13704 Pyled and seynt as any kaat, And moosy [v.r. mosy] heryd as a raat. 1559Elyot Dict. s.v. Barba, Incipiens barba..a younge moocie bearde. 1570Levins Manip. 108/34 Mosy, puber. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. lxxxviii. 267 Dictam, is..a hoate and sharp herbe..his leaues be..somewhat hoare or mosy with a certaine fine downe. 1615Crooke Body of Man 159 It is of a fungous or Mozy substance. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Mozy, shaggy; covered with hair. The clown, who shaves but once a week, is of course very mozy when he comes under the barber's hands.
Hence ˈmosiness.
1538Elyot Dict., Iulus,..the mosynesse of the outwarde parte of fruites... Iuli, be also the mosynesse or softe heares, whiche do growe on the beardes & visages of yong men, before that they be shauen. |