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▪ I. iron-mould, -mold, n.|ˈaɪənˈməʊld|
Also 7 -mole.
[f. iron n.1 + mould, mold, earlier mole, OE. mál, mole, spot, mark.]
1. A spot or discoloration on cloth, etc., caused by iron-rust or an ink-stain.
α1601Holland Pliny II. 47 The decoction will..take out any stain in cloths, euen the very iron-mole. 1642Rogers Naaman 447 Some grosse sins..which are as iron moles, and will hardly be worne out of the flesh. a1659Osborn Observ. Turks Pref. (1673) 4 Book-worms, who, like Iron⁓moles, discolour the sense and obliterate the natural meaning of Authors.
β1639Junius Sin Stigmat. §98. 378 Fine linnen being once stained with black Inke..will retaine an Iron-mould ever after. 1788Trans. Soc. Arts VI. 169 In this [paper] there are no Iron Moulds. 1828Webster, Ironmold. 1833J. Rennie Alph. Angling 67 Yellowish spots very much like iron-moulds. 1872J. G. Murphy Comm. Levit. xiii. 49 Ironmould is a familiar example of a stain caused by a chemical process.
b. fig.
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 58 Such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books. 1660J. Spencer Righteous Ruler 37 Arms, the iron-mole that stained our religion, and eat out order and law.
2. (See quot.)
1706Phillips, Iron-moulds, certain yellow Lumps of Earth or Stone found in Chalk-pits about the Chiltern in Oxfordshire, which are really a kind of indigested Iron-Oar. 1778England's Gazetteer (ed. 2), Berrick-Priory..noted for chalk pits, in which is found a sort of iron-coloured terra lapidosa, in the very body of the chalk, which the diggers call iron-moulds.
▪ II. ˈiron-ˌmould, -mold, v.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. and intr. To stain or become stained with iron-mould. Hence ˈiron-ˌmoulded ppl. a.
1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Clear Starching, If your Muslins be Iron-moulded. 1873Dawson Earth & Man vi. 112 The superabundant oxide of iron..so to speak ‘iron-moulds’ them. c1890W. H. Casmey Notes Ventilation 8 Drops falling from the beams often caused the warps to iron-mould. |