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mould(4) (iou)



mould noun3. Also *mold. ME.
[App. (with metathesis) from Old French modle (mod. moule) from Latin MODULUS.]
I. A pattern by which something is shaped.
a. A pattern or template used by a mason, bricklayer, etc., as a guide in shaping mouldings etc. ME.
J. Nicholson To find the moulds necessary for the construction of a semicircular arch.
b. Any of various thin flexible pieces of wood used for making a pattern of the frames used in constructing a ship's hull. M18.
temple mould: see TEMPLE noun3 2.
a. A hollow form or matrix into which fluid material is poured or plastic material is pressed to harden into a required shape. Also, an impressed surface from which a cast can be taken. LME.
J. Bronowski The Chinese made the mould for a bronze casting.
b. Cookery. A hollow vessel used to give a shape to puddings, jelly, etc. Freq. with specifying word. L16.
dariole mould, jelly mould, etc.
Sunday Express Line a pate mould with the remaining 4oz streaky bacon.
transf. & fig.
a. That which gives an essential shape and form to something. Esp. in cast in a heroic mould below. M16.
Shakespeare Coriolanus My wife comes foremost, then the honour'd mould Wherein this trunk was fram'd. J. Wesley Cast in the Mould of Sin I am.
b. The body regarded as the form within its clothes. E-M17.
Shakespeare Macbeth New honours..Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But with the aid of use.
An object of imitation; a model, a pattern. M16-E17.
W. Lambarde Having neither good arte..nor yet approved patterne or Moald to imitate and follow.
A frame or body on or round which a manufactured article is made. M17.
A package of leaves of gold-beaters' skin between which gold leaf is placed for beating. E18.
In photo-engraving, the gelatin which receives the impression from the negative and from which the copper plate is taken. L19.
II. Imparted form; result of moulding.
The distinctive nature of a person, character, etc., as indicative of origin. ME.
M. Prior Hans Carvel..Married a lass of London mould. B. Jowett He has a character of a finer mould.
Architecture. A moulding, a group of mouldings. L15.
a. The form or shape of something, esp. an animal body. E16.
Sir W. Scott The buff-coat..Mantles his form's gigantic mould.
b. Bodily form, body. Chiefly poet. L16.
Wordsworth Whom doth she behold?..His vital presence? his corporeal mould?
Orig., plastic material. Later, that which is moulded or fashioned. rare. M16.
Milton The formless Mass, This worlds material mould, came to a heap.
The form, structural type, or model of a building, ship, etc. L16-L18.
M. Mackenzie A Vessel..of such a Mould as to draw little Water.
Style, fashion, mode. E-M17.
P. Heylin The houses of the new mould in London, are just after their fashion.
In full mould-candle. A candle made in a mould as distinct from one made by dipping a wick in melted tallow. E19.
T. L. Peacock She..would have burned like a short mould.
Geology. A fossil impression of a convex structure. M19.
A pudding, jelly, etc., shaped in a mould. M19.
Phrases: break the mould fig. make impossible the repetition of a certain type of creation. cast in a heroic mould etc., of a heroic etc. character. running mould: see RUNNING adjective. waste mould: see WASTE noun. wove mould: see WOVE adjective & noun.
Comb.: mould-blowing Glass-making the blowing of glass inside a mould to give it the required shape; mould-candle: see sense 14 above; mould-loft Shipbuilding & Aeronautics a room on the floor of which the plans of a ship etc. are drawn at full size; mould-made adjective (of paper) made on a type of machine producing sheets resembling sheets of handmade paper; mould oil Building an oil applied to formwork to prevent concrete adhering to it; mould-runner an operative in a pottery responsible for transferring a completed article to the drying-oven.