Crossword clues for moldering
moldering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of molder English)
WordNet
adj. becoming rotten; "a field covered with thousands of decomposing bodies"; "John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave" [syn: decomposing, mouldering]
Usage examples of "moldering".
Izzy said as baggies of moldering Danish, maps, sun tan lotion, airline tickets, ephemerides and sen-sens flew from his saddle bags.
Hell under the moldering funhouse, when she regained consciousness and found herself naked on the concrete floor and effectively blind in those lightless confines, tied hand and foot, she did not attempt to bargain for her life as some of the others had done.
The companions dusted their feet and the hooves of their steeds with a black substance Gwystyl distributed from a moldering sack.
A row of moldering old books ran along one shelf, bookended by huge pieces of unpolished petrified wood.
With her open palm she slapped at the surface of the lens—and her hand broke through a crustlike surface and sank into a thick, moldering mess.
This heap of discards I from a lost civilization, moldering at the bottom of the Midden.
See Appendix B] with empty window arches, ivy-mailed battlements, moldering towers--the Lear of inanimate nature--deserted, discrowned, beaten by the storms, but royal still, and beautiful.
The chaplain was the only officer attached to Group Headquarters who did not reside in the moldering red-stone Group Headquarters building itself or in any of the smaller satellite structures that rose about the grounds in disjuncted relationship.
These once mighty strongholds were known to be in dispair, moldering, and weakly garrisoned, yet equipped with enough cannon, shot, and other munitions to enable the Americans at Cambridge to maintain their siege.
Five dromedaries, bred for racing, waited in the inner courtyard of Abnon-Tha's house, a high and moldering mansion that seemed to lean forward upon the open, circular area belonging to the temple.
I wandered along the cobbled sidewalk of Oglethorpe Avenue to the Colonial Park Cemetery, full of moldering monuments and densely packed with the gravestones of people famous to the state's history-Archibald Bulloch, the first president of Georgia, James Habersham, "a leading merchant," and Button Gwinnett, who is famous in America for being one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence and for having the silliest first name in Colonial history.
She had almost decided to hurl herself at him, when she espied a long wooden-handled haying fork, half buried under clumps of moldering hay.
They found the archduke's dear, departed daughter moldering in the dungeon, her highborn corpse alongside the daughters of swineherds and hod carriers.
It was such a retyped form that lay moldering in Willie's khakis in the clip shack.
Drops beaded in the blades of grass shooting up from the moldering life vests.