Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair)
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Examples
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All of a pummy, all of a moulter, because it was so very brow, describing the condition of a tree, which shattered as it fell because it was brow, i.e. brittle.
John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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