An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including
the true mosses and also hepaticae and sphagna.
1. A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other. 2. Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spann...
