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
• 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 See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange; from See also:

• LAT

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 .