moultmoltn.

Brit.

/məʊlt/, U.S.

/moʊlt/

Forms: 1800s moot (Scottish), 1800s mout (Scottish), 1800s– meawt (English regional (Lancashire)), 1800s– molt (now U.S.), 1800s– moot (north-western), 1800s– moult, 1800s– mute (Yorkshire), 1900s– mart, 1900s– mou't (Scottish).

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: moult v.

Etymology: < moult v.

1. In an animal: the action or an act of shedding skin, cuticle, hair, etc., which is to be replaced by new growth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > moulting

moulting?a1425

mewing1797

moult1815

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. vi. 194 This larva is..shagreened..with minute black tubercles, which it loses at its last moult.

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 190/1 Eight moults in the short space of seventeen days have been observed in a young Daphnia.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. xi. 420 The stridulating organs of certain male Orthoptera are not fully developed until the last moult.

1905 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 535 The nympha..is the name given to the creature after its first moult.

1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses ix. 181 About ten days later this is followed by another molt, disclosing what is called the pupa or pseudopupa.

1969 R. F. Chapman Insects iii. 38 A pellet of faecal matter is deposited at the larva-pupa moult.

1995 Archaeol. Mag. July 30/2 The Les Trois Frères bison has an upper body without hair, indicating the moult.

2. In a bird: the action or an act of shedding feathers in the process of changing plumage. in the moult: in a condition of moulting; (figurative) in a melancholy or sorry state (English regional).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > moulting

moulting?a1425

mewinga1475

moultering1697

moult1819

1819 Sporting Mag. 4 247 Those we have just seen are at present in the moult, and on account of their passage are in poor condition.

1865 B. Brierley Irkdale I. vi. 93 As mopin' as an owd hen i' th' meawt.

1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 44 Before the Larks leave Northern Dakota..they go into moult.

1891 J. Baron Blegburn Dickshonary 44 at Meawt Them young chaps as is i' th' meawt through being crossed i' love.

1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 5 The young birds retain their feathered face after their first moult.

1920 A. Dodds Songs of Fields 16 Dowff's a hen, that's in the mou't.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 535 One of the tanagers..underwent a belated moult into the green winter plumage.

1955 Times 8 Sept. 10/7 This is August, with many birds still in the moult.

1993 Equinox Aug. 69/1 The female..begins her moult just prior to her eggs' hatching, leaving her flightless for a month or longer.

3. The skin, hair, or feathers, etc., shed during moulting. Also figurative. Cf. earlier moulting n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > moulting > that which is shed in the process

moulting1583

moult1934

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Molt, the castoff covering.

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Bare ground..heavily besprinkled with the whitish aphid skins or moults.

a1995 G. Jones Coll. Poems (1996) 126 Burdened beneath a heavy moult of snow, soon you sustained The windy buffetings.

1998 T. Hughes Birthday Lett. 43 You carried it all, like shards and moults on a tray.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

moultmoltv.

Brit.

/məʊlt/, U.S.

/moʊlt/

Forms: Middle English moute, Middle English–1600s mout, Middle English–1600s mowt, Middle English–1600s mowte, 1500s–1600s mute, 1500s–1700s (1800s– U.S.) molt, 1600s moote, 1600s– moult; English regional 1800s– maight (Cheshire), 1800s– meaut (Lancashire), 1800s– meawt (northern), 1800s– mout (northern); also Scottish pre-1700 mowt, 1700s– mout, 1800s moot, 1800s mute (Scottish regional (south-western)), 1900s– mou't.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mūtāre.

Etymology: Ultimately < classical Latin mūtāre (5th cent. in post-classical Latin in this sense: see mutate v.). Perhaps the reflex of an unattested Old English verb (compare bimūtian and mūtung : see below) cognate with Old Dutch gemūtōn , gemūzōn to change (compare Middle Dutch mūten , muyten , Dutch muiten to moult), Middle Low German mūten to change, moult, Old High German mūzōn , gemūzzōn , mozzōn to change (Middle High German mūzen to change, moult, German †mausen to moult (compare German mausern to moult < Middle High German mūzer- (German Mauser ), variant (occurring in compounds; the r is unexplained) of Middle High German mūze ‘moulting of birds’)); or perhaps a Middle English loan < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German; or perhaps directly < classical Latin mūtāre . Compare mew v.²The unrecorded Old English *mūtian is implied in bimūtian to exchange, mūtung (one isolated attestation) exchange, found incorrectly glossing classical Latin mūtuum mutuum n.:eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 313 Mutuum, mutung siue wrixlung. The l was introduced late in the 16th cent., on the analogy of words which had an (originally silent) l inserted before t on etymological grounds (compare fault n.). The modern pronunciation is based on this later spelling.

a. intransitive. Of hair: to fall out. Of feathers: to be shed in the process of a bird's change of plumage. Also with off.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > [verb (intransitive)] > fall out

moulta1425

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [verb (intransitive)] > moult

moulta1425

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 781 (MED) His haire moutes, his eghen rynnes.

a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 180 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 547 Fethers of goos whan thei falle or mout To gadre hem vp heerdis hem delite.

?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Aij^v What tyme the cocke crowes, fethers mout & fall From sight she lurketh.

1591 J. Lyly Endimion v. iii. sig. K^v Mee thinkes I feele my ioyntes stronge, and these mouldy haires to molt.

1640 H. Mill Nights Search 168 The punishment doth fall upon the haire, That moults away (the scull behind's left bare).

1830 R. H. Dana Poems 104 Thine own black plumage..must be thy pall. Nor will it moult so soon As sorrowing thoughts.

1931 L. Binyon tr. Dante Purgatorio ii, in Coll. Poems II. 287 Drawing the air with that eternal plume Which moulteth not as the hair of things that die.

1952 L. MacNeice Ten Burnt Offerings 30 A sick bird stood hunched in the lagoon, Its thatchy feathers moulting.

1991 J. Hadwick Owl Light vii. 120 This should last until the feather moults naturally.

b. intransitive. figurative and in extended use. Also occasionally transitive (reflexive).

ΚΠ

a1500 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1933) 164 183 (MED) When feþurs of charyte begynnen to mowte, Than all þe preyere turne to synne.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 368 Souls that have their feathers moult off of them, and so are fain to flag among the dirty desires of the world.

1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. vi. 206 His teeth, that then happened to be moulting.

1839 H. W. Longfellow Celestial Pilot 24 The eternal pinions, That do not moult themselves [It. si mutan] like mortal hair!

1883 H. C. Merivale White Pilgrim 200 Ostrich feathers seemed to moult From half the dresses.

1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman ix. 93 In the autumn, when the happy fowls and foliage alike moulted.

1981 L. D. Cervantes Emplumada 45 When I'm that far south, the old words molt off my skin.

a. intransitive. Of a bird: to shed feathers in the process of changing plumage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > feather > [verb (intransitive)] > moult

moult1440

mew?1533

moulter1632

the world > animals > birds > feather > [verb (intransitive)] > shed (of feathers)

moult1440

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 347 Mowtyn, as fowlys, Plumeo.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xv. 98 When they are casting off their feathers, otherwise called of the common people moulting.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Albrent, a young wild Ducke; also, (a mooter, or moulter,) the old one when she mootes, or hath cast her feathers.

1780 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 534 In the following year, she moulted again, and produced the same feathers.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. vii. 58/1 The Eagle, when he moults, is sickly.

1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries (1872) viii. 122 The birds in this country moult twice a year.

1889 J. Hartley Halifax Clock Almanack 26 A gooise meawts ivvery year.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 535 All birds moult, more or less completely, once a year, but some moult twice, e.g. the garden warbler.

1991 Bird Watching June 57/4 The long-billed dowitcher..had started to moult into fresh mantle feathers.

b. intransitive. Of an animal other than a bird: to shed the skin, cuticle, hair, etc., in the process of acquiring new growth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > cast off part of the body

shed1510

skin1773

exuviate1855

moult1869

autotomize1911

c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr.) ii. 12 Þe seson was paste For hertis..To make ony myrthe, for mowtynge þat nyghed.

1789 Pennsylvania Gaz. 20 May 3/2 The [silk]worms moult or shed their skins four different times, at which periods they neglect their food.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 298 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV On the sixth day they [sc. young worms] begin to molt, or change their skin.

1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxxv. 540 During this time it [sc. ankylostomum] moults twice.

1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 54 The youthful crayfish ‘moult’, or shed their shells 8 times in their first twelvemonth of life.

1976 T. Hooper Guide to Bees & Honey vii. 146 When the new young queen has finally moulted from pupa to adult she cuts around the pointed end of the cell until this falls down as a hinged cap.

1990 BBC Wildlife July 427/2 Roe deer have moulted into their foxy-red summer colours ready for the rut.

c. intransitive. figurative and in extended use.

ΚΠ

1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xiii. 94 Freestone..in continuance of time..moulteth, or crometh away.

1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 50. 395 The said duchesses and countesses were visibly moulting very fast, and baring their necks and shoulders.

1839 T. Hood Valentine in Hood's Own 96 Some lightning too may just fall due, When woods begin to moult.

1884 Fortn. Rev. Jan. 37 England is moulting. Opinions..are..in a state of flux.

1966 L. MacNeice Coll. Poems (1979) 385 Dead leaves around the door, The windows lighter where the trees have moulted.

2000 C. Satyamurti Love & Variations 56 The raw heaps of graveyard steel, urban farm where everything moults in despair.

a. transitive. Of a bird: to shed (feathers) in the process of changing plumage. Formerly also with †away, †off.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > feather > [verb (transitive)] > moult

mewc1380

displume1480

moult1530

moulter1648

throw1765

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 643/1 This hauke begynneth to mute her fethers.

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 1^v Some hauinge their fethers mowted awaye..sanke downe into earthlie thinges.

1668 P. M. Myst. & Miracles Love v. 63 in W. Charleton Ephesian & Cimmerian Matrons When your Turtle hath molted all her beautiful feathers, and is grown old.

1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 834 It [has] not, as he thinks, molted off all its first, or chicken feathers.

1894 Field 9 June 850/1 I frequently come across birds that have moulted every chicken feather in May, and the cockerels sometimes furnish the additional..peculiarity of having moulted their spurs also.

1926 D. H. Lawrence David viii. 65 Jonathan:..Shall not the leader shine forth? Saul: Even so. And the young King-bird shall moult his feathers in the same hour.

1993 BPXpress (BNC) Oct. Both [transmitters] are harmless to the birds and fall off with weathering and as the ducks moult their feathers.

b. transitive. figurative and in figurative contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)]

to let awaya1000

forcast?c1225

to lay downc1275

forthrow1340

flita1375

removea1382

to cast away1382

understrewc1384

castc1390

to lay awaya1400

to lay asidec1440

slingc1440

warpiss1444

to lay from, offc1480

way-put1496

depose1526

to lay apart1526

to put off1526

to set apart1530

to turn up1541

abandonate?1561

devest1566

dispatch1569

decarta1572

discard1578

to make away1580

to fling away1587

to cast off1597

doff1599

cashier1603

to set by1603

moult1604

excuss1607

retorta1616

divest1639

deposit1646

disentail1667

dismiss1675

slough1845

shed1856

jettison1869

shake1872

offload1900

junk1911

dump1919

sluff1934

bin1940

to put down1944

shitcan1973

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 297 So shall..your secrecie to the King & Queene moult no feather.

a1641 J. Suckling Last Rem. (1659) 2 Time shall moult away his wings, Ere he shall discover..Such a constant Lover.

1680 Don Tomazo 117 He was forc'd to draw Bills upon his Correspondents in several places; which being receiv'd,..the poor Merchant of Lime, who had by this means moulted a good part of his gayest Feathers, was discharg'd out of Captivity.

1768 H. Walpole Let. 10 Nov. in Corr. (1941) X. 266 I moulted my stick today.

1835 R. Southey Doctor III. 62 We all moult our names in the natural course of life.

1876 J. Tyndall Apol. Belfast Addr. in Fragm. Sci. ii. 556 The errors of ignorance are continually moulted, and truth is organised.

1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. xlviii. 12 His self-confidence moulted no feather.

1956 E. Bowen Day in Dark (1965) 13 One rose moulted petals on to her doorstep, then on to the linoleum in the hall.

c. transitive. Of an animal other than a bird: to shed or slough (skin, cuticle, hair, etc.) in the process of acquiring new growth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > cast off part of the body

shed1510

uncase1582

moult1774

exuviate1856

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 357 One of these [ermines]..he..kept, in order to observe the manner of moulting its hair.

1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 230 [Cypris] moults its integuments annually, which the conchiferous molluscs do not.

1875 C. C. Blake Zoology 140 Many reptiles cast or moult their skin.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xix. 508 The outermost layer of the epidermis [of a slow-worm] is moulted, from in front backwards, in one piece or slough.

1987 New Yorker 26 Jan. 24/1 The little ones under five years really have to be raised in isolation, because, if you put them together, when one molts his shell the others will eat him.

4. transitive. To cause (feathers) to be shed. rare.

ΚΠ

1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 386 Some write of the Ostriches feather, that it will in time moult and consume all the feathers in the tub wherein it is put.

1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 40 Wilting her wings, the sweltering suns had moulted her [sc. a plane's] bright Plumage.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	moult
释义	moultmoltn. Brit. /məʊlt/, U.S. /moʊlt/ Forms: 1800s moot (Scottish), 1800s mout (Scottish), 1800s– meawt (English regional (Lancashire)), 1800s– molt (now U.S.), 1800s– moot (north-western), 1800s– moult, 1800s– mute (Yorkshire), 1900s– mart, 1900s– mou't (Scottish). Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: moult v. Etymology: < moult v. 1. In an animal: the action or an act of shedding skin, cuticle, hair, etc., which is to be replaced by new growth. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > moulting moulting?a1425 mewing1797 moult1815 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. vi. 194 This larva is..shagreened..with minute black tubercles, which it loses at its last moult. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 190/1 Eight moults in the short space of seventeen days have been observed in a young Daphnia. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. xi. 420 The stridulating organs of certain male Orthoptera are not fully developed until the last moult. 1905 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 535 The nympha..is the name given to the creature after its first moult. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses ix. 181 About ten days later this is followed by another molt, disclosing what is called the pupa or pseudopupa. 1969 R. F. Chapman Insects iii. 38 A pellet of faecal matter is deposited at the larva-pupa moult. 1995 Archaeol. Mag. July 30/2 The Les Trois Frères bison has an upper body without hair, indicating the moult. 2. In a bird: the action or an act of shedding feathers in the process of changing plumage. in the moult: in a condition of moulting; (figurative) in a melancholy or sorry state (English regional). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > moulting moulting?a1425 mewinga1475 moultering1697 moult1819 1819 Sporting Mag. 4 247 Those we have just seen are at present in the moult, and on account of their passage are in poor condition. 1865 B. Brierley Irkdale I. vi. 93 As mopin' as an owd hen i' th' meawt. 1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 44 Before the Larks leave Northern Dakota..they go into moult. 1891 J. Baron Blegburn Dickshonary 44 at Meawt Them young chaps as is i' th' meawt through being crossed i' love. 1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 5 The young birds retain their feathered face after their first moult. 1920 A. Dodds Songs of Fields 16 Dowff's a hen, that's in the mou't. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 535 One of the tanagers..underwent a belated moult into the green winter plumage. 1955 Times 8 Sept. 10/7 This is August, with many birds still in the moult. 1993 Equinox Aug. 69/1 The female..begins her moult just prior to her eggs' hatching, leaving her flightless for a month or longer. 3. The skin, hair, or feathers, etc., shed during moulting. Also figurative. Cf. earlier moulting n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > moulting > that which is shed in the process moulting1583 moult1934 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Molt, the castoff covering. 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Bare ground..heavily besprinkled with the whitish aphid skins or moults. a1995 G. Jones Coll. Poems (1996) 126 Burdened beneath a heavy moult of snow, soon you sustained The windy buffetings. 1998 T. Hughes Birthday Lett. 43 You carried it all, like shards and moults on a tray. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). moultmoltv. Brit. /məʊlt/, U.S. /moʊlt/ Forms: Middle English moute, Middle English–1600s mout, Middle English–1600s mowt, Middle English–1600s mowte, 1500s–1600s mute, 1500s–1700s (1800s– U.S.) molt, 1600s moote, 1600s– moult; English regional 1800s– maight (Cheshire), 1800s– meaut (Lancashire), 1800s– meawt (northern), 1800s– mout (northern); also Scottish pre-1700 mowt, 1700s– mout, 1800s moot, 1800s mute (Scottish regional (south-western)), 1900s– mou't. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mūtāre. Etymology: Ultimately < classical Latin mūtāre (5th cent. in post-classical Latin in this sense: see mutate v.). Perhaps the reflex of an unattested Old English verb (compare bimūtian and mūtung : see below) cognate with Old Dutch gemūtōn , gemūzōn to change (compare Middle Dutch mūten , muyten , Dutch muiten to moult), Middle Low German mūten to change, moult, Old High German mūzōn , gemūzzōn , mozzōn to change (Middle High German mūzen to change, moult, German †mausen to moult (compare German mausern to moult < Middle High German mūzer- (German Mauser ), variant (occurring in compounds; the r is unexplained) of Middle High German mūze ‘moulting of birds’)); or perhaps a Middle English loan < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German; or perhaps directly < classical Latin mūtāre . Compare mew v.²The unrecorded Old English mūtian is implied in bimūtian* to exchange, mūtung (one isolated attestation) exchange, found incorrectly glossing classical Latin mūtuum mutuum n.:eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 313 Mutuum, mutung siue wrixlung. The l was introduced late in the 16th cent., on the analogy of words which had an (originally silent) l inserted before t on etymological grounds (compare fault n.). The modern pronunciation is based on this later spelling. 1. a. intransitive. Of hair: to fall out. Of feathers: to be shed in the process of a bird's change of plumage. Also with off. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > [verb (intransitive)] > fall out moulta1425 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [verb (intransitive)] > moult moulta1425 a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 781 (MED) His haire moutes, his eghen rynnes. a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 180 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 547 Fethers of goos whan thei falle or mout To gadre hem vp heerdis hem delite. ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Aij^v What tyme the cocke crowes, fethers mout & fall From sight she lurketh. 1591 J. Lyly Endimion v. iii. sig. K^v Mee thinkes I feele my ioyntes stronge, and these mouldy haires to molt. 1640 H. Mill Nights Search 168 The punishment doth fall upon the haire, That moults away (the scull behind's left bare). 1830 R. H. Dana Poems 104 Thine own black plumage..must be thy pall. Nor will it moult so soon As sorrowing thoughts. 1931 L. Binyon tr. Dante Purgatorio ii, in Coll. Poems II. 287 Drawing the air with that eternal plume Which moulteth not as the hair of things that die. 1952 L. MacNeice Ten Burnt Offerings 30 A sick bird stood hunched in the lagoon, Its thatchy feathers moulting. 1991 J. Hadwick Owl Light vii. 120 This should last until the feather moults naturally. b. intransitive. figurative and in extended use. Also occasionally transitive (reflexive). ΚΠ a1500 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1933) 164 183 (MED) When feþurs of charyte begynnen to mowte, Than all þe preyere turne to synne. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 368 Souls that have their feathers moult off of them, and so are fain to flag among the dirty desires of the world. 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. vi. 206 His teeth, that then happened to be moulting. 1839 H. W. Longfellow Celestial Pilot 24 The eternal pinions, That do not moult themselves [It. si mutan] like mortal hair! 1883 H. C. Merivale White Pilgrim 200 Ostrich feathers seemed to moult From half the dresses. 1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman ix. 93 In the autumn, when the happy fowls and foliage alike moulted. 1981 L. D. Cervantes Emplumada 45 When I'm that far south, the old words molt off my skin. 2. a. intransitive. Of a bird: to shed feathers in the process of changing plumage. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > feather > [verb (intransitive)] > moult moult1440 mew?1533 moulter1632 the world > animals > birds > feather > [verb (intransitive)] > shed (of feathers) moult1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 347 Mowtyn, as fowlys, Plumeo. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xv. 98 When they are casting off their feathers, otherwise called of the common people moulting. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Albrent, a young wild Ducke; also, (a mooter, or moulter,) the old one when she mootes, or hath cast her feathers. 1780 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 534 In the following year, she moulted again, and produced the same feathers. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. vii. 58/1 The Eagle, when he moults, is sickly. 1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries (1872) viii. 122 The birds in this country moult twice a year. 1889 J. Hartley Halifax Clock Almanack 26 A gooise meawts ivvery year. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 535 All birds moult, more or less completely, once a year, but some moult twice, e.g. the garden warbler. 1991 Bird Watching June 57/4 The long-billed dowitcher..had started to moult into fresh mantle feathers. b. intransitive. Of an animal other than a bird: to shed the skin, cuticle, hair, etc., in the process of acquiring new growth. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > cast off part of the body shed1510 skin1773 exuviate1855 moult1869 autotomize1911 c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr.) ii. 12 Þe seson was paste For hertis..To make ony myrthe, for mowtynge þat nyghed. 1789 Pennsylvania Gaz. 20 May 3/2 The [silk]worms moult or shed their skins four different times, at which periods they neglect their food. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 298 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV On the sixth day they [sc. young worms] begin to molt, or change their skin. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxxv. 540 During this time it [sc. ankylostomum] moults twice. 1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 54 The youthful crayfish ‘moult’, or shed their shells 8 times in their first twelvemonth of life. 1976 T. Hooper Guide to Bees & Honey vii. 146 When the new young queen has finally moulted from pupa to adult she cuts around the pointed end of the cell until this falls down as a hinged cap. 1990 BBC Wildlife July 427/2 Roe deer have moulted into their foxy-red summer colours ready for the rut. c. intransitive. figurative and in extended use. ΚΠ 1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xiii. 94 Freestone..in continuance of time..moulteth, or crometh away. 1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 50. 395 The said duchesses and countesses were visibly moulting very fast, and baring their necks and shoulders. 1839 T. Hood Valentine in Hood's Own 96 Some lightning too may just fall due, When woods begin to moult. 1884 Fortn. Rev. Jan. 37 England is moulting. Opinions..are..in a state of flux. 1966 L. MacNeice Coll. Poems (1979) 385 Dead leaves around the door, The windows lighter where the trees have moulted. 2000 C. Satyamurti Love & Variations 56 The raw heaps of graveyard steel, urban farm where everything moults in despair. 3. a. transitive. Of a bird: to shed (feathers) in the process of changing plumage. Formerly also with †away, †off. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > feather > [verb (transitive)] > moult mewc1380 displume1480 moult1530 moulter1648 throw1765 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 643/1 This hauke begynneth to mute her fethers. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 1^v Some hauinge their fethers mowted awaye..sanke downe into earthlie thinges. 1668 P. M. Myst. & Miracles Love v. 63 in W. Charleton Ephesian & Cimmerian Matrons When your Turtle hath molted all her beautiful feathers, and is grown old. 1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 834 It [has] not, as he thinks, molted off all its first, or chicken feathers. 1894 Field 9 June 850/1 I frequently come across birds that have moulted every chicken feather in May, and the cockerels sometimes furnish the additional..peculiarity of having moulted their spurs also. 1926 D. H. Lawrence David viii. 65 Jonathan:..Shall not the leader shine forth? Saul: Even so. And the young King-bird shall moult his feathers in the same hour. 1993 BPXpress (BNC) Oct. Both [transmitters] are harmless to the birds and fall off with weathering and as the ducks moult their feathers. b. transitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] to let awaya1000 forcast?c1225 to lay downc1275 forthrow1340 flita1375 removea1382 to cast away1382 understrewc1384 castc1390 to lay awaya1400 to lay asidec1440 slingc1440 warpiss1444 to lay from, offc1480 way-put1496 depose1526 to lay apart1526 to put off1526 to set apart1530 to turn up1541 abandonate?1561 devest1566 dispatch1569 decarta1572 discard1578 to make away1580 to fling away1587 to cast off1597 doff1599 cashier1603 to set by1603 moult1604 excuss1607 retorta1616 divest1639 deposit1646 disentail1667 dismiss1675 slough1845 shed1856 jettison1869 shake1872 offload1900 junk1911 dump1919 sluff1934 bin1940 to put down1944 shitcan1973 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 297 So shall..your secrecie to the King & Queene moult no feather. View more context for this quotation a1641 J. Suckling Last Rem. (1659) 2 Time shall moult away his wings, Ere he shall discover..Such a constant Lover. 1680 Don Tomazo 117 He was forc'd to draw Bills upon his Correspondents in several places; which being receiv'd,..the poor Merchant of Lime, who had by this means moulted a good part of his gayest Feathers, was discharg'd out of Captivity. 1768 H. Walpole Let. 10 Nov. in Corr. (1941) X. 266 I moulted my stick today. 1835 R. Southey Doctor III. 62 We all moult our names in the natural course of life. 1876 J. Tyndall Apol. Belfast Addr. in Fragm. Sci. ii. 556 The errors of ignorance are continually moulted, and truth is organised. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. xlviii. 12 His self-confidence moulted no feather. 1956 E. Bowen Day in Dark (1965) 13 One rose moulted petals on to her doorstep, then on to the linoleum in the hall. c. transitive. Of an animal other than a bird: to shed or slough (skin, cuticle, hair, etc.) in the process of acquiring new growth. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > cast off part of the body shed1510 uncase1582 moult1774 exuviate1856 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 357 One of these [ermines]..he..kept, in order to observe the manner of moulting its hair. 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 230 [Cypris] moults its integuments annually, which the conchiferous molluscs do not. 1875 C. C. Blake Zoology 140 Many reptiles cast or moult their skin. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xix. 508 The outermost layer of the epidermis [of a slow-worm] is moulted, from in front backwards, in one piece or slough. 1987 New Yorker 26 Jan. 24/1 The little ones under five years really have to be raised in isolation, because, if you put them together, when one molts his shell the others will eat him. 4. transitive. To cause (feathers) to be shed. rare. ΚΠ 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 386 Some write of the Ostriches feather, that it will in time moult and consume all the feathers in the tub wherein it is put. 1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 40 Wilting her wings, the sweltering suns had moulted her [sc. a plane's] bright Plumage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1815v.a1425
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