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Mold   /moʊld/   Listen
noun
Mold  n.  A spot; a blemish; a mole. (Obs.)


Mould, Mold  n.  
1.
Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.
2.
Earthy material; the matter of which anything is formed; composing substance; material. "The etherial mold, Incapable of stain." "Nature formed me of her softest mold."


Mould, Mold  n.  (Bot.) A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter. Note: The common blue mold of cheese, the brick-red cheese mold, and the scarlet or orange strata which grow on tubers or roots stored up for use, when commencing to decay, are familiar examples.


Mould, Mold  n.  
1.
The matrix, or cavity, in which anything is shaped, and from which it takes its form; also, the body or mass containing the cavity; as, a sand mold; a jelly mold.
2.
That on which, or in accordance with which, anything is modeled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form, etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or mason. "The glass of fashion and the mold of form."
3.
Cast; form; shape; character. "Crowned with an architrave of antique mold."
4.
(Arch.) A group of moldings; as, the arch mold of a porch or doorway; the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts.
5.
(Anat.) A fontanel.
6.
(Paper Making) A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.


verb
Mould, Mold  v. t.  (past & past part. molded or moulded; pres. part. molding or moulding)  To cover with mold or soil. (R.)


Mould, Mold  v. t.  To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.


Mould, Mold  v. t.  
1.
To form into a particular shape; to shape; to model; to fashion. "He forgeth and moldeth metals." "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mold me man?"
2.
To ornament by molding or carving the material of; as, a molded window jamb.
3.
To knead; as, to mold dough or bread.
4.
(Founding) To form a mold of, as in sand, in which a casting may be made.


Mould, Mold  v. i.  To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.





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"Mold" Quotes from Famous Books



... in an empty wheelbarrow to consider matters, not noticing that Jim had been using it that morning to bring fresh mold for Miss Kirby's ...
— Patricia • Emilia Elliott
... feebly through a long and painfully narrow passage, emerging thin, low and fainting. When she sat—or, rather, AS she sat, for she was always sitting—her mountain of soft flesh seemed to be slowly collapsing upon and around the chair like a lump of dough on a mold. Her only interest in life was disclosed when she was settled and settling at the luncheon table. She used her knife more than her fork and her fingers more than either. Feuerstein left soon after luncheon, lingering only long enough to give Lena a theatrical embrace. "Well, I'll not spend much time ...
— The Fortune Hunter • David Graham Phillips
... at Woodbury, Connecticut, on the 14th of June, 1767. She lived to a good old age and died at Mansfield, Ohio, on the 1st of August, 1848. She was a remarkable woman in many respects, a Puritan of the strictest faith, of large mold, being nearly six feet tall, and well proportioned. She was a granddaughter of Rev. Anthony Stoddard, a man whose history strikingly presents the peculiar characteristics of life in Connecticut during the 18th century. The contract between the church and town of Woodbury ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman
... days, as it has oft been told By those who sleep beneath the grave's dank mold, In this, our loved, but now distracted land, Men dwelt together as a household band; Brothers they were, but not alone in name, Sons of Columbia and Columbia's fame— They loved the land, the fairest 'neath the sun, Home of the brave—the ...
— Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive • Alf Burnett
... unsuspected passion beat in her veins. Not for nothing did she have the deep, languorous eyes, the perfect scarlet lips, the sumptuous grace of an artist's ideal. Fires lay banked within her in spite of the fine purity of her nature. Nature had poured into her symmetrical mold a rich abundance ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine


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