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MOULT , a See also:

TERM

term for the shedding of feathers at the periodic renewal of the plumage by birds, and so transferred to the periodic shedding of the old skin, See also:

shell, &c., by other animals. The word is seen in O. Eng. in the verb bimittian, to See also:

EXCHANGE

exchange; from See also:

Lat. mutare, to See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change; cf. mod. Ger. mausen, mausern; the earlier forms in See also:

ENGLISH

English are mout, See also:

MUTE (Lat. tnutus, dumb)

mute; the insertion of the 1, as in " See also:

FAULT (Mid. Eng. faute, through the French, from the popular Latin use of fallere, to fail; the originallof the Latin being replaced in English in the 15th century)

fault," See also:

DATES

dates from the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century.

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