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Moult

verb
(past & past part. molted or moulted; pres. part. molting or moulting)
1.
Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers.  Synonyms: exuviate, molt, shed, slough.



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"Moult" Quotes from Famous Books



... I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation preuent your discouery of your secricie to the King and Queene: moult no feather, I haue of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custome of exercise; and indeed, it goes so heauenly with my disposition; that this goodly frame the Earth, seemes to me a sterrill Promontory; this most ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... 12 Ric. II. cap. 15; 13 Ric. II. stat. 2. The first of these acts contains a paragraph which shifts the blame from the popes themselves to the officials of the Roman courts. The statute is said to have been enacted en eide et confort du pape qui moult sovent a estee trublez par tieles et semblables clamours et impetracions, et qui y meist voluntiers covenable remedie, si sa seyntetee estoit sur ces choses enfournee. I had regarded this passage as a fiction of courtesy like that of the Long Parliament who ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude



Words linked to "Moult" :   peel off, cast, moulting, slough, shedding, sloughing, throw away, drop, moulter, throw, desquamate, exuviate, throw off, molt, cast off, shake off



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