What does "moult" mean?
Moult: To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. Bacon.
Additional senses
- 2.To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.
- 3.The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.
- 4.See Molt.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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