Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Having molted.
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- adjective obsolete Having
moulted .
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Examples
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Two pairs of sheer stockings hang like moulten skins from the wall over the couch.
Larissa Archer: Artist Unbound: Francesca Woodman at SFMOMA Larissa Archer 2012
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Two pairs of sheer stockings hang like moulten skins from the wall over the couch.
Larissa Archer: Artist Unbound: Francesca Woodman at SFMOMA Larissa Archer 2012
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Two pairs of sheer stockings hang like moulten skins from the wall over the couch.
Larissa Archer: Artist Unbound: Francesca Woodman at SFMOMA Larissa Archer 2012
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I am as hot as moulten lead, and as heavy too: God keep lead out of me!
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The breeze blowing through it would catch the wisps and send them dancing in the air, while the great generous streams of golden grain flowing from the machine seemed like rivers of moulten metal.
With Those Who Wait Frances Wilson Huard
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This mightie big stone sharpe topt, sliding downe the extream part from corner to corner, flat sided by the Diameter, was fower paces, at euery equall distant corner, whereof was the foote of a harpie of moulten mettall, their steales and clawes armed.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Aboue in this great Court paued as aforesayd, in the passage towardes the Porche, some tenne paces, I beheld a prodigious winged vaughting horse, of moulten brasse, of an exceeding bignesse, his wings fanning out.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Enthralled by the idea of a super-strong consciousness which turns human blood to lava or moulten iron, Dostoievsky makes Milton's Satan and Nietzsche's blond beast appear quite amateurish and unconvincing; the strong Slav is a reality in the artistic experience of the writer.
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One moulten silver star stood out above all others.
A Modern Chronicle — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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One moulten silver star stood out above all others.
A Modern Chronicle — Volume 07 Winston Churchill 1909
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