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mould(2) (iou)



mould noun1. Also *mold.
[Old English molde = Old Frisian molde, Middle & mod. Dutch moude, Old High German molta, Old Norse mold, Gothic mulda, from Germanic base meaning 'pulverize, grind'. Cf. Old English myl, Middle Dutch mul, mol dust, MEAL noun1. Cf. also MOOL noun.]
Loose, broken, or friable earth; surface soil, esp. as readily broken up. Also in pl. (now chiefly Scot. & dial.), lumps or clods of earth. OE.
H. Maundrell Vast naked Rocks without the least sign of Mould. J. Clare In fresh-turn'd moulds which first beheld the sun.
The ground regarded as a place of burial. Now only poet. & dial. OE.
Wordsworth They were not loth To give their bodies to the family mould. A. E. Housman The bed of mould Where there's neither heat nor cold.
The ground regarded as a surface or as a solid stratum. OE-E17.
M. Drayton Where now it lyes even levell'd with the mold.
The world in which humans live; the earth. Also, the land of a particular region. obsolete exc. poet. OE.
Sir W. Scott The fairest knight on Scottish mold.
The upper soil of cultivated land, Garden-soil, esp. if rich in organic matter. Freq. with specifying word. ME.
leaf-mould etc.
N. Nicholls The loose and fermenting mould of the Garden and fields. G. J. Romanes The amount of mould which worms are able to cast up.
(The material of) the human body. obsolete exc. poet. and in man of mould below. ME.
man of mould a mere mortal.
Bible (Coverdale): Tobit 8:6 Thou maydest Adam of the moulde of the earth. Milton And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould.
b. The dust (DUST noun 2a) to which a human body is regarded as returning after death; a dead person's remains. LME-M17.
G. Sandys Though wormes devoure mee, though I turne to mold.
Comb.: mould-board, (long obsolete exc. Scot.) mouldbred the board or metal plate in a plough for turning over the furrow-slice.

Residual method (finance)


A method of allocating the purchase price for the acquisition of another firm among the acquired assets.