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To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. Bacon.

See Mold, Molder, Moldy, etc.

To contract mold; to grow moldy; to mold. [Obs.] Let us not moulen thus in idleness. Chaucer.

The drum upon which the rope is wound in a capstan, crane, or the like.

See Molt.

Having molted. [Obs.] "A moulten raven." Shak.

A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital. Weale.

Would not. [Obs.] "By those who nould repent." Fairfax.

The top of the head; the head or noll. [Obs.] Spenser.

The all-containing soul. [R.] That unity, that oversout, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other. Emerson.

A mintlike plant (Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.

A long pointed shoe. See Cracowes.

A pullet from which the ovaries have been removed to produce fattening; hence, a fat pullet.

Same as Poledavy. [Obs.]

Powder. [Obs.]

See Pauldron.

Same as Octopus. Musk poulp (Zoöl.), a Mediterranean octopod (Eledone moschata) which emits a strong odor of musk.

A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like. King. Chapman. Starling the heath poults or black game. R. Jefferise.

A poulterer. [Obs.] Shak.

One who deals in poultry.