Mozy

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Shaggy; hairy.

    "The clown, who shaves but once a week, is of course very mozy when he comes under the barber's hands."

  2. 2
    Musty; starting to decay; tainted.

    "Mozy, adj., ...also, as applied to meat, fruit, &c., tainted, musty, beginning to decay."

  3. 3
    Faded; dingy.

    "A calf whose skin is of a dirty grey colour is said to have a mozy look."

  4. 4
    Tough, as fruit when frostbitten.

    "Mozy [moa-zi], adj. juiceless, tough, as apples, pears, turnips, &c., are when frostbitten."

  5. 5
    Muggy. archaic

    "Mozy, adj., ' muggy,' as applied to weather, warm and damp ;"

Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of mosey. alt-of, alternative

    "And does the gastric unpleasantness still linger around the cardiac end, or has it migrated to the pylorus, and in doing so, did it seem to mozy along the lesser or greater stomachal curvature?"

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