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 moulting
 蛻皮; 眠起

 Molt, Moult  v. i. [imp. & p. p. Molted or Moulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Molting or Moulting.]  [The prevalent spelling is, perhaps, moult; but as the u has not been inserted in the otherwords of this class, as, bolt, colt, dolt, etc., it is desirable to complete the analogy by the spelling molt.] To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.

 moulting
      n : periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer
          skin in reptiles [syn: molt, molting, moult, ecdysis]