in botany. See Muscus.

Moss is also a name given to boggy grounds in many parts of the kingdom. These consist of a turfy surface, below which is a black, moist, spongy earth, which being dug up with spades somewhat in the form of bricks, and dried, is what they call peats, used as fuel in several parts; and the upper scurf, being cut and dried, makes turfs, another coarser sort of fuel.