Definition of Moldering

1. Verb. (present participle of molder) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Moldering

1. molder [v] - See also: molder

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moldering

mold
mold fossil
mold fossils
mold guide
moldability
moldable
moldavite
moldavites
moldboard
moldboard plow
moldboards
molded
molded salad
molder
moldered
moldering (current term)
molders
moldier
moldiest
moldily
moldiness
moldinesses
molding
moldings
moldiwarp
moldiwarps
moldlike
molds
moldwarp
moldwarps

Literary usage of Moldering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Steps to Oratory: A School Speaker by Frank Townsend Southwick (1900)
"... Crew and Captain lie ; There the sunlit ocean tosses O'er them moldering, And the lonely sea bird crosses With one waft of the wing. ..."

2. The House of the Dead by Marc Ponomareff (2005)
"... and the playful shouts of his mother and father prodded him on, his child's-feet were speeding over the moldering leaves of a remembered forest as he ..."

3. With the Trees by Maud Going (1903)
"In a primeval wood the ground is half covered with moldering trunks. This is the forest of the past. Dead of age or disease, these trees crashed earthward ..."

4. Wheeler's Graded Literary Readers, with Interpretations by William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler (1919)
"Learn the meanings of the following words before studying the poem: moldering wall: a wall covered with patches of mold, gust: a short, sudden rush of the ..."

5. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Hanford Lennox Gordon (1891)
""'John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave; John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave; John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave; ..."

6. The Morse Readers; Practical Graded Text by Ella Marie Powers (1902)
"This huge moldering monument had become a shelter for a street boy. Many who passed by the Elephant of the Bastille would cast at it a contemptuous glance ..."

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