Results for mould

Definition of mould:

• part of speech: (noun)

  The thread- like fungi or down- like substance which forms on bodies, particularly when exposed to warm or damp air, and which prey upon them and destroy their valuable properties.

• part of speech: (noun)

  That in which anything is cast and receives its form; the matrix; a shape for confectionery; the cast or form given.

• part of speech: (verb)

  To cause to contract mould; to become mouldy.

• part of speech: (verb)

  To form into a particular shape; to fashion; to knead.

• part of speech: (noun)

  Fine soft earth such as constitutes soil; friable earth; garden- soil; matter of which anything is formed.

Usage examples for mould:

“ His mistake grew partly out of his lack of knowledge that woman's flesh and blood is of exactly the same quality that covers the bones and flows in the veins of man, and- well, Rita was Rita, and, in Dic's opinion, no other human being was ever of the quality of her flesh, or cast in the mould of her nature. ” A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties, - Charles Major.

“ To- day we are gold, To- morrow mould ” The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.