moult

Definitions

1. 1.To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. Bacon.
2. 2.To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.
3. 3.The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.
4. 4.See Molt.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. Bacon called?
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