lichen
/ˈlaɪ.kən/ verb C2- To cover with lichen.
He/she/it lichens · Past lichened · Past participle lichened · -ing form lichening
Verb forms
- Base form
- lichen
- He/she/it
- lichens
- Past
- lichened
- Past participle
- lichened
- -ing form
- lichening
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Just beyond were two ancient stone pillars, weather-stained and lichen-blotched, bearing upon their summits a shapeless something which had once been the rampant lion of Capus of Birlstone.
The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side.
It was a large, straggling building, very old in the centre, very new at the wings, with towering Tudor chimneys and a lichen-spotted, high-pitched roof of Horsham slabs.
Occasionally the marks were hidden under tufts of myrtle, which spread into large bushes laden with blossoms, or beneath parasitical lichen.
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