Dictionary Entry

mould

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /məʊld/Used In Literature ↓

A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.

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Common Phrases

. mouldmould vegetablemould samemould leaf

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Poetry examples for “mould”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

But I like them shall win my way
Lastly to the bed of mould
Where there's neither heat nor cold.

As now your own, our beings were of old,
And once inclos'd in Woman's beauteous mould;
Thence, by a soft transition, we repair

As now your own, our beings were of old,
And once enclosed in woman's beauteous mould;
Thence, by a soft transition, we repair

That which we were we could no more remain
Than in the moist provocative vernal mould
A seed its suckers close and rest a seed;

That which we were we could no more remain
Than in the moist provocative vernal mould
A seed its suckers close and rest a seed;

_This_ was the promise of the days of old!
Grown hard and stubborn in the ancient mould,
Grown rigid in the sham of lifelong lies:

When will fire break up her screen?
When will life burst thro’ her mould?
Earth, earth, earth, thy cold is keen,

[498] Shape or fashion; properly the wooden mould on which the crown of
a hat is shaped.

ET not the proud of heart condemn
Me that I mould my ways to hers,
Groping for healing in a hem

Thy heavenly splendour magnifies
The least commixture of earth’s mould,
Cheapens thyself in thine own eyes,