moultingmoltingn.

Brit.

/ˈməʊltɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmoʊltɪŋ/

Forms: late Middle English moltyng, late Middle English moutyng, late Middle English mowtynge, 1500s 1700s– molting (now U.S.), 1500s– moulting, 1600s mooting; also Scottish pre-1700 mouting, 1800s mouttin, 1900s– moutin'.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moult v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < moult v. + -ing suffix¹.With sense 3 perhaps compare early modern Dutch muiten moult v. in similar use.

1. The action or process of moult v.; sloughing, ecdysis. Also: an act of moulting, a moult. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > moulting

moulting?a1425

mewinga1475

moultering1697

moult1819

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > moulting

moulting?a1425

mewing1797

moult1815

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 180 (MED) [Medicines] for allopucia, i. moltyng..make heres for to growe agayne.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 347 Mowtynge, Deplumacio, plutura.

c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) ii. 12 Þe seson was paste For hertis..To make ony myrthe, for mowtynge þat nyghed.

1573 G. Gascoigne Disc. Aduentures Master F. I. in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 248 It chaunced that the maried Knight thus gallowping lost his horn, which some deuines might haue interpreted to be but moulting.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §851 Some Birds there be, that vpon their Moulting doe turne Colour.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 69 Yet have our wars..been a main cause of the moulting of many Eminent and Worthy persons of this Profession.

1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 18 I suppose..your Parrot dy'd in moulting.

1781 G. White Jrnl. 9 Dec. (1970) xiv. 200 George Tanner's bullfinch..began from it's first moulting to look dingy.

1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 303 The moulting of the eagle involves some degree of weakness.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1040 After the second moulting it passes into a sort of larval state.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 535 The physiology of moulting is very slightly known.

1987 M. S. Laverack & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) xxii. 109/1 Moulting occurs at regular intervals and is probably controlled by endocrines.

2. concrete. That which is shed in the process of moulting. Cf. moult n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > moulting > that which is shed in the process

moulting1583

moult1934

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iv. v. 179 A bath..bringeth foorth excrementes or moltinges, if anie sticke within the skinne.

1833 E. S. Wortley Poems 12 Pale marks, like fairy rings—Or moultings of some lost dove's wings.

1873 T. T. Stoddart Songs of Seasons 44 As moltings of angelic wings, The down of cherubs, dropt in course Of their celestial wanderings.

1929 R. Hughes High Wind in Jamaica vii. 155 She collected bits of oakum and the moultings of a worn-out mop.

1990 Independent (Nexis) 10 Nov. 39 Affronted daily by the smell, moultings and droppings of live animals.

†3. The deepening of the voice at puberty. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 70/2 At this epoch [sc. puberty] occurs the moulting of the voice.

Compounds

C1. attributive, with the sense ‘of, relating to, characterized by, or involved in moulting’, as moulting season, moulting sickness, moulting time, etc.

ΚΠ

1457 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 51 That na man..slay wylde foulis in mouting tyme.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 222 These fowles in their moulting time, when their feathers be sick.

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxv. 108 The multitudes of Fowle, in Mooting time they draw.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 144 Bare benting times, and moulting Months may come.

1710 Act 9 Anne c. 27 §5 In any of the Fens..or other Places of resort for Wild Fowl in the molting Season.

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 238 On the fourth day they [sc. silkworms] labour under the moulting sickness.

1840 G. Webster Ingliston x The breast-bane o' a hen that's died at the mouttin season.

1854 Amer. Farmer's New & Universal Hand-bk. 297 The molting period, after the third year of the hen's life, becomes graduall later and more tedious.

1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) iii. 86 A moulting fluid is discharged into the narrow space separating the old from the new cuticle.

1990 J. Shields Chesapeake Bay Cookbk. (1991) i. 3/1 Peelers are blue crabs about to begin the molting process, when they discard their old shells and then grow new ones.

C2.

moulting hormone n. Zoology a hormone responsible for controlling the moulting process in insects and other arthropods; spec. the steroid ecdysone.

ΚΠ

1961 New Scientist 2 Nov. 279/3 The moulting hormone (ecdyson) is produced at intervals by the thoracic glands under the influence of another hormone secreted by certain cells in the brain.

1987 M. Laverick & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) xxiii. 127/2 Of the ecdysones occurring in insects, it seems that β—rather than α-ecdysone..may be the moulting hormone of insects.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

moultingmoltingadj.

Brit.

/ˈməʊltɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmoʊltɪŋ/

Forms: 1500s muting, 1600s mooting, 1600s– molting (now U.S.), 1600s– moulting.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moult v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < moult v. + -ing suffix².

Of a bird, its feathers, etc.: that moults; undergoing the process of moulting. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > feather > [adjective] > moulting

in mewa1475

moulting1578

1578 T. Blenerhasset 2nd Pt. Mirrour for Magistrates Uter Pendragon xv For her disport my Ladye coulde procure The wretched winges of this my muting minde, Restlesse to seeke her emptie fiste to finde.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. xv. 182 Or be thy moulting wings Vnapt to flie?

1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. vii. 25 Crest-fallen, and drooping, like a Mooting Duck.

1778 R. Lowth Isaiah (ed. 12) xl. 31 They shall put forth fresh feathers like the moulting eagle.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad ii. 29 Looking as droopy..as..molting chickens.

1887 W. Besant World Went xxiv Sitting mum, like a moulting canary-bird.

1956 I. Murdoch Flight from Enchanter viii. 100 She was a dowdy, fluffy girl, off whom pieces continually fell as off a moulting bird.

1986 Bird Watching May 51/2 Towards the end of the month the first greylag geese arrive to form the summer moulting flock.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	moulting
释义	moultingmoltingn. Brit. /ˈməʊltɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmoʊltɪŋ/ Forms: late Middle English moltyng, late Middle English moutyng, late Middle English mowtynge, 1500s 1700s– molting (now U.S.), 1500s– moulting, 1600s mooting; also Scottish pre-1700 mouting, 1800s mouttin, 1900s– moutin'. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moult v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < moult v. + -ing suffix¹.With sense 3 perhaps compare early modern Dutch muiten moult v. in similar use. 1. The action or process of moult v.; sloughing, ecdysis. Also: an act of moulting, a moult. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > moulting moulting?a1425 mewinga1475 moultering1697 moult1819 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > moulting moulting?a1425 mewing1797 moult1815 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 180 (MED) [Medicines] for allopucia, i. moltyng..make heres for to growe agayne. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 347 Mowtynge, Deplumacio, plutura. c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) ii. 12 Þe seson was paste For hertis..To make ony myrthe, for mowtynge þat nyghed. 1573 G. Gascoigne Disc. Aduentures Master F. I. in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 248 It chaunced that the maried Knight thus gallowping lost his horn, which some deuines might haue interpreted to be but moulting. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §851 Some Birds there be, that vpon their Moulting doe turne Colour. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 69 Yet have our wars..been a main cause of the moulting of many Eminent and Worthy persons of this Profession. 1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 18 I suppose..your Parrot dy'd in moulting. 1781 G. White Jrnl. 9 Dec. (1970) xiv. 200 George Tanner's bullfinch..began from it's first moulting to look dingy. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 303 The moulting of the eagle involves some degree of weakness. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1040 After the second moulting it passes into a sort of larval state. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 535 The physiology of moulting is very slightly known. 1987 M. S. Laverack & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) xxii. 109/1 Moulting occurs at regular intervals and is probably controlled by endocrines. 2. concrete. That which is shed in the process of moulting. Cf. moult n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > moulting > that which is shed in the process moulting1583 moult1934 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iv. v. 179 A bath..bringeth foorth excrementes or moltinges, if anie sticke within the skinne. 1833 E. S. Wortley Poems 12 Pale marks, like fairy rings—Or moultings of some lost dove's wings. 1873 T. T. Stoddart Songs of Seasons 44 As moltings of angelic wings, The down of cherubs, dropt in course Of their celestial wanderings. 1929 R. Hughes High Wind in Jamaica vii. 155 She collected bits of oakum and the moultings of a worn-out mop. 1990 Independent (Nexis) 10 Nov. 39 Affronted daily by the smell, moultings and droppings of live animals. †3. The deepening of the voice at puberty. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 70/2 At this epoch [sc. puberty] occurs the moulting of the voice. Compounds C1. attributive, with the sense ‘of, relating to, characterized by, or involved in moulting’, as moulting season, moulting sickness, moulting time, etc. ΚΠ 1457 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 51 That na man..slay wylde foulis in mouting tyme. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 222 These fowles in their moulting time, when their feathers be sick. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxv. 108 The multitudes of Fowle, in Mooting time they draw. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 144 Bare benting times, and moulting Months may come. 1710 Act 9 Anne c. 27 §5 In any of the Fens..or other Places of resort for Wild Fowl in the molting Season. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 238 On the fourth day they [sc. silkworms] labour under the moulting sickness. 1840 G. Webster Ingliston x The breast-bane o' a hen that's died at the mouttin season. 1854 Amer. Farmer's New & Universal Hand-bk. 297 The molting period, after the third year of the hen's life, becomes graduall later and more tedious. 1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) iii. 86 A moulting fluid is discharged into the narrow space separating the old from the new cuticle. 1990 J. Shields Chesapeake Bay Cookbk. (1991) i. 3/1 Peelers are blue crabs about to begin the molting process, when they discard their old shells and then grow new ones. C2. moulting hormone n. Zoology a hormone responsible for controlling the moulting process in insects and other arthropods; spec. the steroid ecdysone. ΚΠ 1961 New Scientist 2 Nov. 279/3 The moulting hormone (ecdyson) is produced at intervals by the thoracic glands under the influence of another hormone secreted by certain cells in the brain. 1987 M. Laverick & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) xxiii. 127/2 Of the ecdysones occurring in insects, it seems that β—rather than α-ecdysone..may be the moulting hormone of insects. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). moultingmoltingadj. Brit. /ˈməʊltɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmoʊltɪŋ/ Forms: 1500s muting, 1600s mooting, 1600s– molting (now U.S.), 1600s– moulting. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moult v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < moult v. + -ing suffix². Of a bird, its feathers, etc.: that moults; undergoing the process of moulting. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > feather > [adjective] > moulting in mewa1475 moulting1578 1578 T. Blenerhasset 2nd Pt. Mirrour for Magistrates Uter Pendragon xv For her disport my Ladye coulde procure The wretched winges of this my muting minde, Restlesse to seeke her emptie fiste to finde. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. xv. 182 Or be thy moulting wings Vnapt to flie? 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. vii. 25 Crest-fallen, and drooping, like a Mooting Duck. 1778 R. Lowth Isaiah (ed. 12) xl. 31 They shall put forth fresh feathers like the moulting eagle. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad ii. 29 Looking as droopy..as..molting chickens. 1887 W. Besant World Went xxiv Sitting mum, like a moulting canary-bird. 1956 I. Murdoch Flight from Enchanter viii. 100 She was a dowdy, fluffy girl, off whom pieces continually fell as off a moulting bird. 1986 Bird Watching May 51/2 Towards the end of the month the first greylag geese arrive to form the summer moulting flock. 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