sea-moss
1. A kind of seaweed; = coralline n.1 1.
| 1548 Turner Names of Herbs (E.D.S.) 21 Bryon thalassion named in latin Muscus marinus is of two sortes... The one kynde is called Vsnea marina, & it may be called in english sea mosse, it groweth aboute stones and shelles in the sea. 1579 Langham Gard. Health (1633) 594 Sea mosse is good to be laid to hot tumors. 1612 Drayton Poly-olb. xviii. 761 From Shepey, sea-moss some [bring], to cool his boiling blood. c 1711 Petiver Gazophyl. vi. 58 Soft-feathered Cape Coralline... This elegant Sea Moss is not brittle like the Shop Coralline. 1877 Bryant Sella 177 Thou shalt sleep Thy weariness away on downy banks Of sea-moss. |
2. = carrageen.
| 1891 in Century Dict. |
3. = sea-mat (sea n. 23 d).
| 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 429/1. |