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▪ I. † moul, n.1 Obs. rare.
In 5 mowle.
[Related to moul v.1; cf. ON. mygla fem., Sw. mögel neut.]
= mould n.4
c1440Promp. Parv. 346/2 Mowlynge, of mowle (S. or mowle), mucor, C.F. mucidus.
▪ II. † moul, n.2 Obs.
Also 6 moule, mowle, 7 Sc. mule.
[var. of mould n.3, perh. in part an intentional alteration after mod.F. moule.]
= mould n.3
1565–6Trin. Coll. Acc. in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 570 Paper to make mowles for the pillers. 1593Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift (1876) 45 Your selues being of the purest mettall, and hauing your hartes framed of the kindest moule. 1606Warner Albions Eng. xv. xcvii. 387 Kist with a kisse of Iudas moule. 1647H. More Song of Soul iii. App. xxiv, How the præexistent soul..enters bodies here below, And then entire, unhurt, can leave this moul. 1655R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) III. 289 [The Parliament]..flew so high, as to mind nothing but a Fifth Monarchie on earth..and put all in a new mule of their owne.
▪ III. moul, v.1 Obs. or dial.
Forms: 3 muwlen, 4–6 moule, mowle, 6 mowl, 8–9 moul.
[Early ME. muwle:—older *muᵹle, a. or cogn. w. ON. *mugla (OIcel. with umlaut mygla, MSw. moghla-s, möghla, mod.Sw. mögla, Norw. mugla, mygla, Da. dial. mugle), f. Teut. root *mug-, whence Da. muggen mouldy, mugne to grow mouldy.]
1. intr. To grow mouldy, to mould. Also fig.
a1225Ancr. R. 344 Leten þinges muwlen oðer rusten, oðer uorrotien. 13..Metr. Hom. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LVII. 288 Fleschlich lust Makeþ Monnes soule Rote and Rust..and Moule. c1386Chaucer Man of Law's Prol. 32 Lat us nat moulen thus in ydelnesse. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1420 Ententifly he kepiþ his seruise In courte; his labour þere schal not moule. 1550Cranmer Defence 21 The wyne..wylle..tourne to vyneiger, and the breadde wylle mowle. 1789D. Sillar Poems 120 Your pickle cash Will ly an' moul, like ither useless trash. 1818Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck, etc. II. 164 They'll..leave the good substantial ait-meal bannocks to stand till they moul. 1828Craven Gloss., Moul, to grow mouldy.
2. trans. To make mouldy.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 153 A loof, þat trespasid not, was mowlid & fordon. a1535Communycacyon (W. de W.) B j, Thy drynke soureth and mouleth thy mete Wherwith the poore man myght wele fare.
▪ IV. † moul, v.2 Obs. rare.
Also 6 mowle, 7 moule.
[var. of mould v.2, perh. after F. moule-r. Cf. moul n.2]
trans. = mould v.2
1530Palsgr. 641/2 This stone is nat carved with the hande, but mowled. a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) II. 121 The Pharoes of Dublin..to whom wee did not onely moule theire breeke at our owne proper charges, but [etc.]. c1710Mack Gregory's Advt. 2 Reliefs Moul'd in Boss and in Solid.
▪ V. moul
see mole n.2, mool, mule. |
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