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Mossback

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Mossback'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/mossback.html. 1828.