mold 
soft earth, or earth easily pulverized, such as 
constitutes soil ; crumbling or friable soil. 
In that thi scions or thi planntes may 
Be sette a little asonder, gemmes three 
Of scions tinder moolde is sette alway. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 67. 
The black earth, everywhere obvious on the surface of 
the ground, we call mould. Woodward. 
2. The earth ; the ground. [Obsolete or pro- 
vincial ; in Scotch usually in the plural, moulds, 
mools.] 
Theg Horn were under molde, 
Other elles wher he wolde. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), 1. 317. 
There is moo mysshape peple amonge thise beggeres 
Thane of alle maner men that on this molde walketh. 
Piers Plowman (B), vii. 96. 
Affrighted then they did behold 
His body turning into mould, 
And though he had a month been dead, 
This handkerchief was about his head. 
The Suffolk Miracle (Child's Ballads, I. 222). 
Their bones are mingled with the mould, 
Their dust is on the wind. 
Bryant, The Greek Boy. 
3. The matter of which anything is formed; 
material. 
No mates for you, 
Unless you were of gentler, milder mould. 
Shak., T. of the S., L 1. 60. 
Nature formed me of her softest mould, 
And sunk me even below my own weak sex. 
Addison, Cato, i. 6. 
In or under the molds, in the earth; buried. [Prov. 
Eng. and Scotch. ] 
Late, late i' the night the bairnies grat, 
Their mither, she under the mools heard that. 
Old ballad. 
The truth . . . first came out by the minister's wife, 
after Sir John and her ain gudeman were baith in the 
moulds. Scott, Redgauntlet, letter xi. 
mold 1 , mould 1 (mold), . t. [< mold 1 , n."] To 
cover with mold. 
Guinea grass requires to be molded, when the stalks and 
roots throw out new stalks and grass shoots. 
T. Houyhley, Jamaica Planter's Guide (1823), p. 309. 
mold 2 , mould 2 (mold), v. [First in early mod. 
E. mould, mowlde; a later form, with excrescent 
d, of ME. moulen, mowlen, mollen, earlier muw- 
len, mulen, grow musty, mold,< Icel. mygla (= Sw. 
mogla), grow muggy or musty, mold (cf . mygla 
= Sw. mogel, mold, moldiness), < mugga, soft 
drizzling mist, mugginess: see mug 1 , muggy. 
The form mould instead of maul arose partly 
out of confusion with the pp. mouled, also 
spelled mowled, mowlde, and used as an adj. 
(whence the later adj. mouldy, moldy), and part- 
ly out of confusion of the noun mould 2 (for *moul) 
with mould 1 , mold 1 , friable earth, dust, etc. 
(with which the word has generally been iden- 
tified), and also with mould 3 , mold 3 , for mole 1 , 
a spot, and, as to form, with mould*, mold*, a 
model (the d in mould 3 , mold 3 , and mould*, mold* 
being also excrescent).] I. intrans. To grow 
musty; become moldy; contract mold. 
Other leten thinges muwlen other [or] rusten. 
Ancren Riwle, p. 344. 
Let us not moulen [var. mowlen} thus in idlenesse. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Man of Law's Tale, L 82. 
There be some houses where . . . baked meats will 
mould more than in others. Bacon. 
II. trans. To cause to contract mold: as, damp 
molds cheese. 
mold 2 !, mould 2 t, p. a. [< ME. mould, mouled, 
mowled, mowlde, moiled, muled, pp. of moulen, 
grow musty: see mold 2 , v. This form, prop. 
mouled, is put here as involved in mold?, v. and 
.] Grown musty; molded; moldy. 
This white top writeth min olde yeres ; 
Min herte is also mouled as min heres. 
Chaucer, Beeve's Tale, 1. 3867. 
And with his Mode shall wasshe undefouled 
The gylte of man with rust of synne i-mmiled. 
Lydgate. 
Thy drynkes sowren thy mottyd mete, 
Where with the feble myghte wel 
fare. US. Cantab. Ff. ii. 88, f. 16. 
[(Halliwell.) 
mold 2 , mould 2 (mold), n. [See 
mold 2 , v. and p. a.] A minute 
fungus or other vegetable 
growth of a low type, espe- 
cially one of such vegetable 
organisms as appear on arti- 
cles of food when left neglect- 
ed, decaying matter, bodies 
which lie long in warm and 
damp air, animal and vege- 
table tissues, etc.; in a some- * m 
what looser sense, mustiness Moid {Pnicaumn 
or incipient decay. Most of the j*Sr&H e 
common molds belong to the ge- SiSlSdu? ' ' 
3820 
tr. M. Mucedo forms small downy tufts of grayish- 
form, grows on oily or greasy substances. The common blue 
mold on decaying bread, cheese, etc., is PenidUium glau- 
cum. See Mucor, Mucorini, PenidUium. 
All moulds are inceptions of putrefaction, as the moulds 
of pies and flesh, which moulds afterwards turn into 
worms. Bacon, Nat. Hist, 339. 
Black mold, a general name for certain hyphomycetous 
fungi having dark-colored or carbonized mycelium, be- 
mold-box 
4. In terra-cotta worl;, the plaster forms used 
in making terra-cotta architectural ornaments. 
They are usually in a number of parts, and when the clay 
is set sufficiently the mold is carefully taken apart. Sim- 
ilar molds are used also for glass, pottery, and waxwork. 
5. In stucco-work, a templet or former for shap- 
ing cornices, centerpieces, etc. 6. In jiajier- 
manufacture, a frame with a bottom of wire 
netting which is filled with paper-pulp that in 
draining away leaves a film of pulp which is 
excrescent d, 
Prob. due in part to 
ing, the pattern used in working out the frames 
that caused by rust. 
Upon the little brest, like christall bright, 
She mote perceive a litle purple mold, 
That like a rose her silken leaves did faire unfold. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. xii. 7. 
mold 3 , mould 3 (mold), v. t. [< mold 3 , .] To 
stain, as with rust. 
mold 4 , mould 4 (mold), . [< ME. mold, moold, 
molde, with unorig. medial d, for "molle, < OF. 
molle, moule, mole, mosle, modle, F. moulc = Sp. 
Pg. molde, a mold, measure, < L. modulus, a mea- 
sure, model: see modulus, model.'] 1. A form or 
of wood for shaping and ornamenting pats of 
butter, or a form of metal, earthenware, etc., 
for giving shape to jellies, blanc-mange, ices, 
etc. 9. In cookery, a dish shaped in a mold: 
as, a mold of jelly. 
We had preserved plums to the mould of rice. Dickens. 
10. In.anat.,aame&8fontanelle, 2. 11. Among 
gold-beaters, a number of pieces of vellum or a 
like substance, laid over one another, between 
which the leaves of gold are laid for the final 
beating Elastic mold. See etottc.-Gold-beaters' 
mold. .See gold-beater. 
model pattern of a particular shape, used in de- mold 4 , mould 4 (mold), v. t. [< OF. moller,molcr, 
F. mauler = Sp. Pg. moldar, < L. modulari, mea- 
sure; from the noun: see mold*, n.~] 1. To 
form into a particular shape; shape; model; 
fashion; cast in or as in a. mold; specifically, 
to form articles of clay upon a whirling table 
or potter's wheel, or in molds which open and 
close like those employed in metal-easting. 
Though he have been or seemed somewhat harsh here- 
tofore, yet now you shall find he is new moulded. 
Sherley, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 229. 
If these two things be supposed, that a man set before 
him honest and good ends, and again, that he be resolute, 
constant, and true unto them, it will follow that he shall 
mould himself into all virtue at once. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 300. 
termining the shape of something in a molten, 
plastic, or otherwise yielding state. 
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. 
Bacon, Essays, Fortune. 
New honours come upon him, 
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould 
But with the aid of use. Shak., Macbeth, i. 3. 145. 
Made in his image ! Sweet and gracious si mis, 
Dear to my heart by nature's fondest names, 
Is not your memory still the precious mould 
That lends its form to Him who hears my prayer? 
0. W. Holmes, Love. 
2. Form; shape; cast; character. 
My sonne, if thou of suclie a molde 
Art made, now tell me pleine thy shrift. 
Gower, Conf. Amant., iv. 
Did I request thee Maker, from my clay 
To mould me man? Milton, P. L., x. 
44. 
French churches, both under others abroad and at home 
in their own country, all cast according to that mould 
which Calvin had made. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref., ii. 2. In ship-building, to give the required depth 
The expectancy and rose of the fair state, and outline to, as ships' timbers. Dlamond- 
The glass of fashion, and the mould of form. molded glass. See glass. Molded breadth the greatest 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. 161. breadth of a ship, measured to the outside of the frame- 
Men of mould timbers. Molded charcoal. See charcoal. Molded 
Well embodied, well ensouled. glass, glass which is blown in a mold. The mold flu 
Emerson, Monadnoc. around the melted glass held on the end of the pontil, 
3. Specifically, in founding, the form into which 
a fused metal is run to obtain a east. Molds for 
metals and alloys having a low melting point, as lead, 
type-metal, Britannia metal, etc., are made of iron or plas- 
ter of Paris, and may be used many times. Molds for the 
less fusible metals and alloys, as iron, brass, bell-metal, 
etc., are made in sand or loam and are divided into three 
stamped deeply on the end grain of the wood, this end 
being then planed down to the bottom of the impression, 
and soaked in water, when the compressed parts swell up 
into high relief. Medallions and other decorative objects 
were produced in this way In the seventeenth and eigh- 
teentn centuries. 
Levins. 
oten meta is then moldahilitv tnovilHariilitiT I'mol r)n hil'i tit 
poured in and finds itslevel. <&)CtooW,ormold8lntwo r? , ; /; J )U TT, V V l~i-* V'~ ' 
parts called the drag and the case (or cope), forming together l> oldaole : see -Dihty.] Capability of being 
a two-part Jlask, one part being placed over the other, and molded. 
classes : (a) Open molds, in which the pattern is impressed mold B t, " An obsolete form of mole 2 L 
in the sand and withdrawn, and the molten metal is then molda hilitv mrmlria Viilitw (mn\ i\a hil'i 
poured in and finds itslevel. (&)CJ<*emoW8,ormoldsintwo r? , ; /; J , r, V Vn ( %%. <n 
partscalledthedra0andthei<K(or<pe),foriningtogether L< moldaole : see -Dihty.] Capability of 1 
a two-part Jlask, one part being placed over the other, and molded. 
each being impressed with one half of the matrix or pat- moldable, mouldable (mol'da-bl), O. [< mold* 
tern. Seeflask, 2. (c) Loam-moldn, or molds built up with 4. ;>/> 1 PoT>oWo nf V>oinr, mnl/lnri , tr.,, 
a core of brickwork or other material, and covereS with )elng molcletl or termed. 
founders' loam. As in the case of open molds, with close The differences of impressible and not impressible ; flg- 
molds a pattern, usually of wood, is used, being impressed urable and not figurable ; mouldable and not nwuldable. 
one half at a time in the two parts of the flask or molding- Bacon, Nat. Hist., 846. 
box, which, when put together so as to correspond, form _..ij i , r-T-r< i 
the mold. Loam-molds are used especially in making molflalet, n. [MK, also molde-ale, a funeral 
large hollow castings, and do not require a pattern. These feast, < molde, earth (with ref . to burial), + ale, 
molds are of every shape and size, from molds for kettles a drinking, a feast : see mold 1 and ale. Cf 
^^^^%&'S '< W 7/' Hence mulled ale : see,.] A 
ers, and other delicate objects are formed by suspending 5^i teast ' Prompt, Pan'., p. 341. 
the object in a box by means of wires and covering it with Moldavian (mol-da'vi-an), a. and n. [< Molda- 
- - - - - - i _._in AI__ .._/___ J n \ I -i " rt, K 
plaster of Paris. When set the mold is heated until the 
object is burned, and the ash is then blown out, leaving 
the original shape in 
the mold. Another 
method is to fashion 
the figure in wax, 
bed it in plaster or 
clay, and then melt 
out the wax (tire 
perdu). In making 
plaster casts of parts 
of the human body, 
or of sculptors' mod- 
els, the original mold 
requires to be cut to 
remove it from the 
object, and the parts 
are afterward fitted 
together. Gelatin, 
papier mache, and 
sulphur are also 
used for making 
certain kinds of 
molds. The type- 
mold of type-found- 
ers is of steel in two 
pieces, making right 
and left halves, on 
the top of which, 
when conjoined, the 
matrix is attached. 
Every body of type has its special mold, which can be used 
for that body only, but the mold is made adjustable for 
the varying widths of type. 
via (see def.) + -an.] 
Moldavia, a former principality of eastern 
rope, now forming part of the'kingdom of 
Details of Type-mold. 
a, the two halves of the mold united but 
without the matrix, showing the face of the 
type H as formed in the mold ; b, one half 
of themold; c, the other half of the mold, 
showing the body of the letter H in position; 
rf. the matrix relatively enlarged, showing 
the face of the letter H. 
I. a. Of or relating to 
Eu- 
Ru- 
mania Moldavian balm, a blue-flowered labiate herb, 
2>racocephalum Moldamca, cultivated in flower-gardens, 
and of some culinary use. Moldavian Cloak, a long 
outer garment worn by women about I860, having a cape 
in front covering the arms and serving on each side as a 
kind of sleeve. 
II. H. A native or an inhabitant of Moldavia. 
mold-board (mold'bprd), 11. 1. The curved 
board or metal-plate in a plow, which turns over 
the furrow. 2. InfowtMng. the board on which 
the pattern for a mold is laid ; a follow-board. 
mold-box (mold'boks), n. A box used in cast- 
ing steel under pressure for the manufacture 
of guns, etc. As devised by Sir Joseph Whitworth, 
this is a cylindrical box in which melted crucible steel 
or Siemens-Martin process steel is subjected to a hydro- 
static pressure of 6,000 pounds per square inch. Two 
closely fitting hoops of steel of ample strength are fitted 
on the interior with cast-iron lags having vertical channels 
on the faces fitted to the hoops, and numerous channels 
leading from the vertical channels to the interior of the 
mold-box. The interior surfaces of the lags are lined with 
refractory sand. A central core of cast-iron faced with re- 
fractory sand, and provided with horizontal and vertical 
channelslike the lags, is erected in the box, leaving an an- 
nular space into which the metal is run. By means of a 
hydraulic press an annular piston or plunger is driven 
down upon the upper surface of the molten metal. The 
