molt

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

molt, imp. 

 imp. of Melt.  Chaucer. Spenser.  [1913 Webster]

molt, v. 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]

molt, v. t. 

 To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.  [1913 Webster]

molt, n. 

 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.