| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Moult.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb molt.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (molt) | 1. Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers.[Wordnet]. 2. Base verb from the following inflections: molting, molted, molts, molter, molters, moltingly and moltedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "MOLTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Specialty Definition: molt
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] 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.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Environment | To shed the exoskeleton or outer skin. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] The skin or feathers cast off during the process of molting. (references) | 2: [Verb] (intransitive) To shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc. and replace it by a fresh layer. (references) | 3: [Verb] (transitive) To shed in such a manner. (references) |
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| Ailill Molt | 11 | Ailill Molt | 11 | |
| Emil Molt | 2 | Emil Molt | 2 | |
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