Crossword clues for molder
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Molder \Mold"er\, Moulder \Mould"er\, v. t. To turn to dust; to cause to crumble; to cause to waste away.
[Time's] gradual touch
Has moldered into beauty many a tower.
--Mason.
Molder \Mold"er\, Moulder \Mould"er\, n. One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
Molder \Mold"er\, Moulder \Mould"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Molderedor Mouldered; p. pr. & vb. n. Moldering or Mouldering.] [From Mold fine soft earth: cf. Prov. G. multern.] To crumble into small particles; to turn to dust by natural decay; to lose form, or waste away, by a gradual separation of the component particles, without the presence of water; to crumble away.
The moldering of earth in frosts and sun.
--Bacon.
When statues molder, and when arches fall.
--Prior.
If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have
moldered to nothing.
--Clarendon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also moulder, "to crumble away," 1530s, probably frequentative of mold (n.3) "loose earth." Related: Moldered; moldering.
also moulder, mid-15c., "one who molds or forms," agent noun from mold (v.). From late 13c. as a surname.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who molds something into shape. 2 A person who makes molds. 3 A tool for making molds. 4 A machine for making molding. vb. To decay to dust, to disintegrate from rot.
WordNet
Usage examples of "molder".
Porteous wondered sometimes if the path were not a mere game track, but he was reassured when his plunging feet struck bits of corduroy in the hollows, rotten poles drooping between the moldered brown lengths of the stringpieces, -all hidden in the undergrowth.
Idealism left the Descenders virtually unchallenged as the molders of modernity.
The collapse of Idealism left the Descenders virtually unchallenged as the holders and molders of modernity.
A week later, armed with a photograph of Molders, Winzer prepared the passport.
He walked through into Section Two and picked up the nineteen application forms and approval slips waiting for collection, slipped the Molders application form and approval slip among them, and took the sheaf to Major Johnstone.
That evening he handed Molders his new passport THE ODESSA FILE 257 and took the diamond necklace.
He would never have got involved with the Odessa if Molders had kept his mouth shut.
But once arrived in Madrid and among friends, Molders boasted of his contact who could provide genuine West German passports in a false name to anyone who asked.
To give their brutalities the semblance of right, they improvise two pompous demonstrations, first, the sudden manufacture of a paper constitution, which molders away in their archives, and next, the scandalous farce of a hollow and compulsory plebiscite.
I'm sure that Asturia and Wacune were littered with the souvenirs of idiocies past as well, but those old wounds moldered discreetly in the forests which covered the two northern duchies.
His home was situated in a small clearing amid pleasant forest groves of copper and aluminum wire-drawing machines, injection molders, transfer presses, and stately pylons bearing their canopy of power lines and data cables, among which scurrying sheet riveters, gracefully moving spot welders, and occasional slow-plodding pipe benders supplied a soothing background of chattering, hissing, whirring, and clunking to insulate him from the world of mortals and their mundane affairs and leave him alone and in peace with his thoughts.