Usually means: Shedding old feathers, fur, skin.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. moult: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. moult: Merriam-Webster
  3. moult: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. moult: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. moult: Collins English Dictionary
  6. moult: Vocabulary.com
  7. Moult, moult: Wordnik
  8. moult: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Moult, moult: Wiktionary
  10. moult: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. moult: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. moult: Dictionary.com
  13. moult: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Moult (disambiguation), Moult: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Moult: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. moult: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. moult: Rhymezone
  18. moult: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. moult: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. moult: FreeDictionary.org
  21. moult: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. moult: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. moult: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. moult: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. moult: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See moulting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
noun:  The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting.
verb:  (intransitive) To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.
verb:  (transitive) To shed in such a manner.
noun:  A surname.

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