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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOLT, v.i. To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, etc.; 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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles [syn: molt, molting, moult, moulting, ecdysis] v
1: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring" [syn: shed, molt, exuviate, moult, slough]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: alteration of Middle English mouten, from Old English -m?tian to change, from Latin mutare — more at mutable Date: 15th century intransitive verb to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically transitive verb to cast off (an outer covering) periodically; specifically to throw off (the old cuticle) — used of arthropods • molter noun II. noun Date: 1815 the act or process of molting; specifically ecdysis

Oxford Reference Dictionary

US var. of MOULT.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Molt Molt, Moult Moult, v. t. To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Molt Molt, Moult Moult, n. The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Molt Molt, obs. imp. of Melt. --Chaucer. --Spenser.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Molt Molt, Moult Moult, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Molted or Moulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Molting or Moulting.] [OE. mouten, L. mutare. See Mew to molt, and cf. Mute, v. t.] [The prevalent spelling is, perhaps, moult; but as the u has not been inserted in the otherwords of this class, as, bolt, colt, dolt, etc., it is desirable to complete the analogy by the spelling molt.] To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. --Bacon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Molt Molt, Moult Moult, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Molted or Moulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Molting or Moulting.] [OE. mouten, L. mutare. See Mew to molt, and cf. Mute, v. t.] [The prevalent spelling is, perhaps, moult; but as the u has not been inserted in the otherwords of this class, as, bolt, colt, dolt, etc., it is desirable to complete the analogy by the spelling molt.] To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. --Bacon.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see moult