Mould

(v.) Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

(v.) Earthy material; the matter of which anything is formed; composing substance; material.

(v. t.) To cover with mold or soil.

(n.) A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter.

(v. t.) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.

(v. i.) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.

(n.) The matrix, or cavity, in which anything is shaped, and from which it takes its form; also, the body or mass containing the cavity; as, a sand mold; a jelly mold.

(n.) That on which, or in accordance with which, anything is modeled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form, etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or mason.

(n.) Cast; form; shape; character.

(n.) A group of moldings; as, the arch mold of a porch or doorway; the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts.

(n.) A fontanel.

(n.) A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.

(v. t.) To form into a particular shape; to shape; to model; to fashion.

(v. t.) To ornament by molding or carving the material of; as, a molded window jamb.

(v. t.) To knead; as, to mold dough or bread.

(v. t.) To form a mold of, as in sand, in which a casting may be made.

(-) Alt. of Mouldy

校对:菲利斯

• If both had owned plantations in Louisiana, they would have been as like as two old bullets cast in the same mould. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The beam was straight, long, and heavy, and that and the mould generally hewed from a tree. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Take me--mould me to your will, possess my heart and soul to all eternity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Her fingers went over the mould of his face, over his features. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They do see that humanity is badly squeezed in the existing mould. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They were taken from the same mould. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• But China is not to be moulded to the Japanese pattern, and the revolutionary stir continued. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• By the high pressures, or stresses given by the hydraulic press it was learned that cold metals have plasticity and can be moulded or stretched like other plastic bodies. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The figures are strikingly true in form and color, and seem to have been moulded directly from nature, as they probably were. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Sand stones have been moulded or pressed from the same ingredients, and with either smooth or undressed faces. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• His bones were strong and round, his limbs were rounded, all his contours were beautifully and fully moulded. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He however attained his wish; he filled the situation for which nature seemed to have moulded him. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He was about my own height and well muscled and in every outward detail moulded precisely as are Earth men. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The pulp was laid by hand upon moulds made of parallel strands of coarse brass wire; and the making of the pulp by grinding wood and treating it chemically to soften it was experimental. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• For while it is illuminating to see how environment moulds men, it is absolutely essential that men regard themselves as moulders of their environment. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They cast the copper in moulds made to the shape of the stone implements. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The machine is provided with a series of finger keys, which, when pressed like the keys of a typewriter, cause the letter moulds to assemble in a line in their proper order for print. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A similar process of embossing, was devised in Paris and called Xyloplasty, by which steam-softened wood is compressed in carved moulds, which give it bas-relief impressions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• They cannot be cast in moulds or shaped by law. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The casting of car wheels by chill moulds, by which the tread portion of the wheel was hardened and increased in wearing qualities, is a good illustration. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Other stone-cutting machines had for their objects the cutting and moulding the edges of tables, mantels and slabs; and the cutting of circular and other curved work. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The next operation is for moulding and pressing the brick. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Inside was a large room in which fifty workers were carving or moulding. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• His blue eyes burned with a keen, yet cold light, there was a certain beauty, a beautiful passivity in all his body, his moulding. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The credit of the execution is due to Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble, who spent some days in doing the moulding. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She began moulding the wax; and it was evident from her manner of manipulation that she was endeavouring to give it some preconceived form. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In moulding pulp into articles of manufacture, satisfactory machines have been invented, not only for the mere forming them into shape, but for water-proofing and indurating the same. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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