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molt

 : 
Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

moltimp. 
     imp. of Melt.  Chaucer. Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
moltv. i. [OE. mouten, L. mutare. See Mew to molt, and cf. Mute, v. t.].
     To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
moltv. t. 
     To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.  [1913 Webster]
moltn. 
     The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

molt, US var. of MOULT.

ROGET THESAURUS

molt

Divestment

VB divest, uncover &c (cover), denude, bare, strip, disfurnish, undress, disrobe &c (dress, enrobe), uncoif, dismantle, put off, take off, cast off, doff, peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay, expose, lay open, exfoliate, molt, mew, cast the skin.


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