Mutual, mutation, permutation, commute, transmute, immutable, moult.

If in any fowl the moult should seem protracted, examine it for broken feather-stumps still beaded in the skin: if you find any, extract them carefully with a pair of tweezers.

It is seldom or ever that hens will lay during the moult; while the cock, during the same period, will give so little of his consideration to the frivolities of love, that you may as well, nay, much better, keep him by himself till he perfectly recovers.

"Li maus est moult want" exclaims the author of Godfrey de Bouillon, and he adds, sadly, "Tos li biens est finés.

As they grow, they outgrow their skin so they moult the old one after a new skin has formed under it.

The spiderlings moult to mature.)

The larvae will moult many times (on an average five) to become a pupa.

I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation preuent your discouery of your secricie to [Sidenote: discovery, and your secrecie to the King and Queene moult no feather,[10]] the King and Queene moult no feather, I haue

I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation preuent your discouery of your secricie to [Sidenote: discovery, and your secrecie to the King and Queene moult no feather,[10]] the King and Queene moult no feather, I haue

After a fortnight Akka observed that the time was approaching for her to moult and put on a new feather dress so as to be ready to fly.

'Là eut je vous dy moult grant assaust et dur.'

Les envieus et envieuses sont en ung fleuve congelé plongés jusques au nombril et par dessus les frappe un vent moult froid et quant veulent icelluy vent éviter se plongent dedans ladite glace.'

If man could only moult alsohis mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions!

(The down had come off the head and flippers and commenced to come off the breast in a vertical line similar to the ordinary moult.)

MOULT, THOMAS.

Thomas Moult (A); 26Aug58; R220633.

After his first moult he began to get handsome, with a crest and a blue wattle, and a lot of green feathers at the behind of him.

Old birds generally moult as soon as they have reared their broods, which in this country is late in summer or early in the fall.

Many also moult again the following spring, when they put on their wedding dress; and one of the curious things about this change of plumage is, that the new feathers often come out quite unlike those that were cast off.

After the moult, when a warm brown hue veils the white feathers, and the short northern summer has ended, the birds flock together for their travels.

If we live in southern New England or westward to Illinois, we shall probably have him with us all the year, wearing the same colored feathers after the moult as before, not shedding his sweet temper and song with his spring coat.

The friendly Robins had left the Orchard and lawn, to moult in the quiet of the woods.

I have had him nearly two years, and though of course he must moult his feathers yearly, I have not observed the change of plumage, nor have I noticed that he has sung less at one period of the year than another.

May the wing of friendship never moult a feather.

Any indication of the disease called flacherie, from which the worms so often die after the fourth moult and turn black from putrefaction, or of any other disease from which silk worms suffer, should be considered as ample reason for not using the cocoons for the purpose in question.