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cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. [Written also coulter.]

A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap. And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker. Shak.

A composition of different materials. [Obs.] A new confection of mold. Bacon.

fect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest. Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mold. Pope.

The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange.

A shell or shell-like dish or mold in which viands are served.

The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.

A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [Obs.] Swift.

Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house. Gwilt. Cornice ring, the ring on a cannon next behind the muzzle ring.

To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire clotch mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

A concave molding.

To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf. Crenelated molding (Arch.), a kind of indented molding used in Norman buildings.

crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent. The mouse, Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, Or from the crevice peered about. Tennyson.

To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalites or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. The houscrinkled to and fro. Chaucer. Her face all bowsy, Comely crinkled, Wondrously wrinkled. Skelton. The flames through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. Mrs.…

Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon. Bishop.

ared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh. "Common crude salt." Boyle. Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. I. Taylor.

A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form.

A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.

An instrument for making tracings of the outline or contour of profiles, moldings, etc.

In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.