Crossword-Solution: MOULT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Moult | v. t. | To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. |
| Moult | v. t. | To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed. |
| Moult | n. | The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting. |
| Moult | v. & n. | See Molt. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “MOULT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cast off feathers, in England | 1 answer |
| Drop down, in London? | 1 answer |
| Lose feathers, in London | 1 answer |
| Shed to a Brit | 1 answer |
| Shed feathers, in Sheffield | 1 answer |
| Shed feathers: Var. | 1 answer |
| Shed: Brit. sp. | 1 answer |
| shed feathers, hair, or skin to make way for new growth | 1 answer |
| LOSE feathers | 3 answers |
| EXUVIATE | 5 answers |
| Mew | 16 answers |
| doff | 18 answers |
| Shed | 52 answers |
| cast-off | 56 answers |
| Cast off | 65 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with MOULT (5)
The animal must cast its skin; and the moult is an event that does not fall on the same date for all.
The exit of the family is performed in a single group and, this time, before the moult, perhaps for lack of the space necessary for the delicate casting of the skin.
When the storied feathers of his wings began their annual moult, his jailer saved them as precious things, and as each new feather came he reproduced on it the record of its owner's fame.
There is a breed of pigeons in which the males alone are streaked with black, and the streaks can be detected even in the nestlings; but they become more conspicuous at each successive moult, so that this case partly opposes and partly supports the rule.
The ptarmigan, for instance, moults twice or even thrice in the year, and the blackcock only once: some of the splendidly coloured honey-suckers (Nectariniae) of India and some sub-genera of obscurely coloured pipits (Anthus) have a double, whilst others have only a single annual moult.
Quotes with MOULT (2)
Man may never stop being inconsistent. For his desires and passions moult consistently Husbands, be aware that your wife will always be inconsistent. The woman should know that He will never cease to amaze her Hence, tie not your love to your characters. Let your souls cleave. Still he who has erred should be open to corrections for such things can also cleave a non-crossable path between them.
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions. "In the morning, — solitude;" said Pythagoras; that Nature may speak to the imagination, as she does never in company, …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1954–2011).