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A spot; a blemish; a mole. [Obs.] Spenser.

rial; the matter of which anything is formed; composing substance; material. The etherial mold, Incapable of stain. Milton. Nature formed me of her softest mold. Addison.

Capable of being molded or formed.

A curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing.

One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.

Covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold.

The state of being moldy.

The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.

See Mole the animal. Spenser.

Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.

The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.

is made into a button by covering it with cloth. [Written also buttonmould.] Fossil buttonmolds, joints of encrinites. See Encrinite.

An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures. Dunglison.

A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.

To mold into shape, or form. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

See Gimmal.

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

To mold or shape anew or again; to reshape.

To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion. The smoldering dust did round about him smoke. Spenser.

ng in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead. Some evil chance Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze. Tennyson.