Mold

Mold , noun

[See Mole a spot.]

A spot; a blemish; a mole. [Obsolete] — Spenser

Mold , noun

[Old English molde, Anglo-Saxon molde; akin to Dutch mul, German mull, mulm, Old High German molt, molta, Icelandic mold, Danish muld, Swedish mull, Gothic mulda, and English meal flour. See Meal, and compare Mole an animal, Mull, v.]

Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

Earthy material; the matter of which anything is formed; composing substance; material.

The etherial mold, Incapable of stain. — Milton

Nature formed me of her softest mold. — Addison

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Mold , transitive verb

To cover with mold or soil. [Rare]

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Mold , noun

[From the past participle of Old English moulen to become moldy, to rot, prob. from Icelandic mygla to grow musty, mugga mugginess; compare Swedish mogla to grow moldy. See Muggy, and compare Moldy.]

(Botany) A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter.

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. M. J. Berkley.

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Mold , transitive verb

To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.

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Mold , intransitive verb

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

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Mold , noun

[Old English molde, Old French mole, French moule, from Latin modulus. See Model.]

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. — Milton

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. — Shakespeare

Cast; form; shape; character.

Crowned with an architrave of antique mold. — Pope

(Architecture) 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.

(Anatomy) A fontanel.

(Paper Making) A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.

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Mold , transitive verb

[Compare French mouler, Old French moler, moller. See Mold the matrix.]

To form into a particular shape; to shape; to model; to fashion.

He forgeth and moldeth metals. — Sir M. Hale

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mold me man? — Milton

To ornament by molding or carving the material of; as, a molded window jamb.

To knead; as, to mold dough or bread.

(Founding) To form a mold of, as in sand, in which a casting may be made.

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