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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.