Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MOLD-ING, n.

Any thing cast in a mold, or which appears to be so; hence, in architecture, a projecture beyond the wall, column, wainscot, &c., an assemblage of which forms a cornice, a door-cage, or other decoration. Encyc.

MOLD-ING, ppr. [from mold.]

Forming into shape; kneading.

MOLD-WARP, n. [Sax. mold and weorpan, to turn. See Mole.]

A mole; a small animal of the genus Talpa, that moves under ground and turns up the mold or surface of the earth. Spenser. Carew.

MOLD-Y, a. [from mold.]

Overgrown with mold. Addison.

MOLE, n. [Sax. mæl, mal; D. maal; G. mahl.]

1. A spot, mark or small permanent protuberance on the human body, from which usually issue one or more hairs.
2. [L. mola.] A mass of fleshy matter of a spherical figure, generated in the uterus. – Encyc.

MOLE, n.² [L. moles; Fr. mole; W. moel, a heap, or mwl, a mass; Gr. μωλος.]

1. A mound or massive work formed of large stones laid in the sea by means of coffer dams, extended either in a right line or an arch of a circle before a port, which it serves to defend from the violent impulse of the waves; thus protecting ships in a harbor. The word is sometimes used for the harbor itself. – Encyc.
2. Among the Romans, a kind of mausoleum, built like a round tower on a square base, insulated, encompassed with columns and covered with a dome. – Encyc.

MOLE, n.³ [D. mol; G. maulwurf, mold-warp; Sw. mullsork, mullvad or mull-warpel; Dan. muldvarp.]

A small animal of the genus Talpa, which, in search of worms or other insects, forms a road just under the surface of the ground, raising the soil into a little ridge; from which circumstance it is called a mold-warp, or mold-turner. The mole has very small eyes. – Ray. Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave. – Pope.

MOLE, v.t.

To clear of mole-hills. [Local.] – Pegge.

MOLE-BAT, n.

A fish. – Ainsworth.

MOLE-CAST, n.

A little elevation of earth made by a mole. – Mortimer.

MOLE-CATCH-ER, n.

One whose employment is to catch moles. – Tusser.

MOLE-CRICK-ET, n.

An insect of the genus Gryllus, or Gryllotalpa.

MO-LEC'U-LAR, a.

Belonging to or consisting of molecules. – Prout.

MOLE'CULE, n. [Fr. from mole.]

A very minute particle of matter. Molecules are elementary, constituent, or integrant. The latter result from the union of the elementary. – Dict. Nat. Hist. Fourcroy. Kirwan.

MOLE'-EY-ED, a.

Having very small eyes; blind.

MOLE'-HILL, n. [W. malur.]

A little hillock or elevation of earth thrown-up by moles working underground; hence proverbially, a very small hill, or other small thing, compared with a larger. Having leaped over such mountain; lie down before a mole hill. – South.

MO-LEST', v.t. [Fr. molester; It. molestare; Sp. molestar; from L. molestus, troublesome; Sp. moler, to grind, to molest, to vex, L. molo. See Mill.]

To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy. They have molested the church with needless opposition. – Hooker.

MOL-EST-A'TION, n.

Disturbance; annoyance; uneasiness given. [It usually expresses less than vexation.] Brown.

MO-LEST'ED, pp.

Disturbed; troubled; annoyed.

MO-LEST'ER, n.

One that disturbs.

MO-LEST'FUL, a.

Troublesome.

MO-LEST'ING, ppr.

Disturbing; troubling.

MOLE'-TRACK, n.

The course of a mole under ground. Mortimer.

MOLE'-WARP, n.

A mole. [See Mole and mold-warp.]

MO'LI-EN, n.

A flowering tree of China. Grosier.