Moulder

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil Often followed by away or down: to cause (something) to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.

   “[S]harp and corroding rheums had so early mouldered those rocks and hardest parts of his fabric [teeth], that a man might well conceive that his years were never like to double or twice tell over his teeth.”

2. fiil To cause (someone or something) to die away or disappear.

   “How many men have we seen moulder and crumble away great estates, and yet pay no debts?”

3. fiil Often followed by away: to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.

   “In buyldinge of a fortreſſe or other honorable mantion⸝ it aught to be well conſidered that the cement⸝ wherewith the ſtones be layde⸝ be firme and well bindynge. For if it be brokle ⁊ will mouldre a way with euery ſhowre of raine⸝ the buyldynge may nat contynewe⸝ […]”

4. fiil To die away, to disappear.

   “As to thoſe offerd condeſcenſions of Charitable connivence, or toleration, if vve conſider vvhat vvent before, and vvhat follovvs, they moulder into nothing.”

5. fiil Often followed by away: of a group of people (especially an army): to diminish in number; to dwindle.

   “The Corniſh Army vvas greater in Reputation, than Numbers; […] if they vvere compelled to march Eaſtvvards, to vvhich they vvere not inclined, it vvas to be doubted they vvould moulder avvay ſo faſt, that there vvould be little addition of ſtrength by it.”

6. isim A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread.
7. isim A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.

   “It was, however, most interesting work, and the moulders themselves were a decent crowd, never tired of making jokes about themselves such as the hoary one that moulders did not live long, which however ran counter to the other one that no germs could live in a foundry—the atmosphere was too foul.”

8. isim An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects.
9. isim A person or thing that influences or shapes; an influencer, a shaper.
10. isim A person who makes moulds for casting metal; a mouldmaker.
11. isim Alternative spelling of mulder (“one or more crumbled pieces of food, especially oatcake; a crumb or crumbs”).
12. isim Synonym of mould (“loose, friable soil”); also, dust.

    “[B]y the ſenſe of our ayrie bodies we haue a more refined faculty of forſeeing, than men poſſibly can haue, that are chained to ſuch heauie earthlie moulder; […]”

13. isim Synonym of mould (“a natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air”)
14. özel isim A surname.