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  1. mossyback: Merriam-Webster
  2. mossyback: Wiktionary

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noun:  (informal) A person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary; a mossback.
noun:  (informal, historical, obsolete) Synonym of mossback (“a person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865)”)
noun:  Senses relating to animals.
noun:  (fishing, obsolete) A fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back; a mossback.
noun:  (obsolete) The menhaden, mossbanker, or mossbunker, a marine fish of the genus Brevoortia or Ethmidium.

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