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▪ I. ˈmouldering, vbl. n.
Also 6 muldring, 7–8 mouldring.
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The action of moulder v.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 28 b, The Larche tre..is not hurted wt rottyng or muldring. 1626Bacon Sylva §337 The Mouldring of Earth in Frosts and Sunne. 1748Anson's Voy. i. i. 3 Their cannon..useless by the mouldring of their carriages. 1850Tennyson In Mem. lxxvi, Thy deepest lays are dumb Before the mouldering of a yew.
▪ II. ˈmouldering, ppl. a.
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That moulders.
1661J. Childrey Brit. Baconica 133 Under this upper Clay lyes a mouldring washy Clay. 1709Steele Tatler No. 104 ⁋5 A few crumbling Bones, and a little mouldring Heap of Earth. 1715Pope Ep. Addison 11 Some felt the silent stroke of mould'ring age. 1842J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 166 The mouldering earth falling from this second spade is cleared out by a corresponding shovel. 1847Disraeli Tancred vi. iv, We shall..sweep away the mouldering remnants of the Tataric system. |