intransitive verb. To shed part or all of a coat or an outer covering, such as feathers, cuticle, or skin, which is then replaced by a new growth.

intransitive verb. To shed or cast off (a bodily covering).

noun. The act or process of molting.

noun. The material cast off during molting.

An obsolete preterit of melt.

To shed or cast, as feathers, hair, or skin; slough off: often used figuratively.

To cast or shed feathers, hair, skin, or the like; undergo or accomplish a molt; exuviate; mew. See the noun.

To be about to be cast off or shed, as plumage.

noun. The act or process of shedding or casting any tegumentary, cuticular, or exoskeletal structures or appendages, as feathers, hair, skin, nails, horns, hoofs, claws, or shell; ecdysis; exuviation.

noun. The period or time of molting.

imp. of melt.

transitive verb. To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.

intransitive verb. To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.

noun. The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.

verb. To shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc. and replace it by a fresh layer.

verb. To shed in such a manner.

noun. The skin or feathers cast off during the process of molting.

verb. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers

noun. periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles

"The period between each molt is known as an instar."

moult  

shedding  sloughing  

Bolt  Colt  Holt  bolt  colt  

Milo  akamai  cavalerie  custode  docteur  

cast  exuviate  mew  molting  shed  

melt  

molted  molting  molts  

melt