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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 935 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MOULT , a

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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,

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SHELL
SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)

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

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EXCHANGE

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LAT

Lat. mutare, to

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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

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ENGLISH

English are mout,

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MUTE (Lat. tnutus, dumb)

mute; the insertion of the 1, as in "

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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)

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DATES

dates from the 16th

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

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