What is "lichened"

Usage examples of "lichened".

They stood beneath the lichened arches of a melancholy willow that wept green tears at the water's edge, "I grieve for departed friends," said Rohain, to explain her frown.

They halted beside a window to look out at the dormant Spring Garden with its arches of lichened crab-apples most ancient.

The meet was held in one of those sleepy Cotswold villages, with a village green flanked by golden grey cottages, a lichened church knee-deep in daffodils, and a pub called the Goat in Boots.

She could see the great lichened curve of an angel's wing, and if she leant out of the window she could look over a fuzz of wood as soft as rabbit's fur to the chimneys of Valhalla and Rannaldini's grey tower beyond.

A rainbow of different coloured clematis rose out of a bed of lavender against the ancient lichened walls of the house.

Rupert lounged deceptively still against the lichened wall of the tack room.

Now, whatever its past, the roofless building, its stained and lichened walls perforated by circular openings and pocked with holes where floor and roof beams had once rested, was just a chasm – another way from here to there.

Of the journey that followed, she had only a vague, kaleidoscopic vision: her swinging manacled hands, her own stumbling feet between those of her escort, swaying lanterns and flickering torches, uneven stone steps, damp and lichened walls.

Heather and gorse were becoming scantier and stretches of lichened, shaly rock beginning to show.

Escorted by six Dainnan cruisers, she would set sail for Arcdur's stony, lichened wastes, carrying Ashalind and Angavar, Ercildoune, Roxburgh, and the other survivors of the Royal Attriod.

Among thousands of millions of obelisks and monoliths, menhirs and dolmens, their shades varying between granite-gray, moss-green, and lichened pink, one more configuration becomes unremarkable.

A breeze rustled its leaves and made dapples of sunlight dance on the lichened bark.