Crossword clues for molt
molt
- Shed skin periodically, e.g
- Lose a layer
- Shed one's feathers
- Fail to save one's skin?
- Snakes' renewal process
- Shed, snake-style
- Shed at the zoo
- Lose a coat?
- Empty carapace
- What birds do
- Stop wearing down?
- Snakes and birds do it
- Shed, like feathers
- Shed, like a reptile
- Shed like a snake
- Shed hair, e.g
- Shed hair
- Shed fur or feathers
- Shed feathers
- Shed a feather
- Process of shedding skin or feathers
- Many birds do it once a year
- Lose one's feathers
- Lose a coat
- Drop feathers
- Discard, animal style
- Shed feathers or skin
- Jump out of one's skin?
- Shed, as skin
- Drop down?
- What some birds do
- Snakes do it
- Shed one's skin
- Take off one's coat?
- Experience ecdysis
- Undergo ecdysis
- Come out of one's shell, maybe
- Shed old feathers
- Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
- Exuviate
- Shed an outer layer
- Shed plumage
- Shed, as feathers
- Lose feathers or skin
- Cast off skin
- Lose fur
- Slough off
- Birds and snakes do it
- Crawl out of one's skin?
- Drop down
- Lose one's coat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Molt \Molt\, Moult \Moult\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Molted or
Moulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Molting or Moulting.] [OE.
mouten, L. mutare. See Mew to molt, and cf. Mute, v. t.]
[The prevalent spelling is, perhaps, moult; but as the u
has not been inserted in the otherwords of this class, as,
bolt, colt, dolt, etc., it is desirable to complete the
analogy by the spelling molt.]
To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like,
as an animal or a bird.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also moult, mid-14c., mouten, of feathers, "to be shed," from Old English *mutian "to change" (in bemutian "to exchange"), from Latin mutare "to change" (see mutable). Transitive sense, of birds, "to shed feathers" is first attested 1520s. With parasitic -l-, late 16c., on model of fault, etc. Related: Molted, moulted; molting, moulting. As a noun from 1815.
Wiktionary
n. (standard spelling of moult from=US English) vb. (standard spelling of moult from=US English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "molt".
Many young Molt warriors were shimmering out of empty air, using the antechamber as a bolt hole from the fighting forty kilometers away.
In his right hand was not a gun bought from a human trader or looted from an adversary but rather a traditional weapon: a hand-forged dagger, hafted with bone in the days when Molt warriors fought one another and their planet was their own.
An infantryman still aboard his grounded skimmer caught the shimmer of a Molt tele porting in along the vector for which Hawker had warned.
The cyan bolt blew a basin the size of a dinner plate into the rock face on which the Molt was homing.
Bourne cursed again though the artillery was friendly, the guns trying to forestall Molt snipers by pulverizing a site to which they could easily teleport.
While not everyone--yet--shared the generals opinion that the war was an unmitigated disaster, the failure of this gathering to include representatives of the fourteen Molt themes made it less colorful in a way that no amount of feathers and cloth-of-gold could repair.
Even the resin with which the urns were impregnated was an addition by the settlers to whom the gift was made, preserving for generations the micron-smooth polish which a Molt had achieved with no tool but the palms of his hands over a decade.
In order to transport himself to a point in the material landscape, a Molt had to identify his destination in the dream world of energy patterns and crystal junctions that depended both on the size of the object being used as a beacon and on its distance from the point of departure.
Most of all, however, finding a location depended on the experience of the Molt who picked his way across the interface of mind and piezoelectric al flux.
The yellow figures which changed only to reflect the position of the moving jeep were now replaced by a nervous flickering from that yellow to the violet which was its optical reciprocal, giving Lieutenant Hawker the location at which a Molt warrior was about to appear in the near vicinity.
But the Molt warrior who by now was in full control of his body and whatever weapon he held, somewhere beyond the waving curtain of grain .
Low retaining walls curved back into the sloping hillside like arms outstretched by the arched opening in their center: the entrance to what the Oltenians called a Molt nursery cave.
And when called to do so by military need, Molt warriors could home on even the smallest portions of the particular locality in which they had been raised.
The micro fragments from the firecracker round had cleared the crest and face of the ridge, but a Molt somewhere out there, far from the immediate battle scene, continued to snipe at the jeep undeterred.
The sergeant grounded the jeep in a stony pocket far enough below the crest to be clear of the Molt marksman who had fired as they climbed the back slope.