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Webster 1913 Edition


Molt

Molt

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obs.
imp.
of
Melt
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Chaucer.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Molt

MOLT

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Verb.
I.
To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, &c.; as an animal. Fowls molt by losing their feathers, beasts by losing their hair, serpents by casting their skins, and deer their horns. The molting of the hawk is called mewing.